{"id":1673,"date":"2019-02-04T15:52:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T20:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/?page_id=1673"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:10:26","slug":"tracey-stepien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/tracey-stepien\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracey Stepien"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tracey Stepien<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cell migration from birth to death: Modeling and analyzing the motion of cells in tissues and tumors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Abstract:\u00a0Beginning momentarily after we are conceived through to our final days, cells migrate within our bodies. From embryonic development to the progression of many diseases including cancer, cell migration plays an essential role in maintaining our health. To understand the mechanisms and forces involved in migration related to early embryonic development, eye and retina development, wound healing, and cancer growth, I have developed continuum mechanical models with free boundaries and reaction-diffusion equation models of the spread of tissues and tumors.\u00a0 Mathematical analysis and numerical simulations of the models indicate conditions for traveling wave and similarity under scaling solutions, and data and image analysis of experimental data has facilitated the estimation of model parameter values that are physically relevant.\u00a0 In this talk, I will give examples of biological cell migration problems that I work on as well as an in-depth look at some of the mathematical analysis that has arisen from the model equations.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1673","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1673\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/boyland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}