Education:
 

2009-2011     Ph.D. Applied Mathematics in Life and Social Sciences (AMLSS), Arizona State University

                           Title: Niche Construction, Sustainability and Evolutionary Ecology of Cancer

2003-2008     B.S. Mathematics / B.A. Music  

                           University of Maryland/College Park

2004-2005     Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria (study abroad)
 

Research interests:


Ecology, evolution, mathematical modeling, game theory, cancer as an evolving ecological system, metabolism, Warburg effect, consequences of population heterogeneity, parameter distribution, ODEs.
 

Publications:

Kareva, I. and P. Hahnfeldt (2013). The Emerging "Hallmarks" of Metabolic Reprogramming and Immune Evasion: Distinct or Linked? Cancer Research, 73(9): 2737-42.

Kareva, I., Berezovskaya, F. and G. Karev (2013). Mixed Strategies and Natural Selection in Ecological Niche Construction, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, accepted.

Kareva, I. Biological Stoichiometry in Tumor Microenvironments (2013). PloS ONE, 8(1):e51844. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051844. Epub 2013 Jan 22.

Kareva, I., Morin, B. and G. Karev (2013). Preventing the tragedy of the commons through punishment of over-consumers and encouragement of under-consumers. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2013 Feb 14. [Epub ahead of print].

Kareva, I., Berezovskaya, F. and C. Castillo-Chavez (2012). Niche construction and sustainability in resource-dependent competition models. Mathematical Biosciences, 240(2): 114-123.

Kareva, I. (2011) Prisoner's dilemma in cancer metabolism. PloS ONE, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028576

Kareva, I. (2011) "What can ecology teach us about cancer?" Translational Oncology, 4(5), 266-270.

Redon, C.,  Dickey, J., Nakamura, A.,  Kareva, I., Naf, D., Nowsheen, S., Kryston, T., Bonner, W., Georgakilas, A., Sedelnikova, O. (2010) Tumors induce complex  DNA damage in distant proliferative tissues in vivo. PNAS, 107(42),17992-17997.

Kareva, I., Berezovskaya, F., and C. Castillo-Chavez (2009). Myeloid cells in tumour–immune interactions. Journal of Biological Dynamics, 4(4), 315-327.

Colon-Rentas, O., Kareva, I., Reitsman, P., Toutain, G., and S. Crook (2007) A Mathematical Model of the Heart of Drosophila melanogaster. MTBI Technical Reports, Arizona State University.

Ogurtsov, A., Kareva I., Spiridonov, T., and A. Kondrashov (2003) PostOWEN: Computational approach to the analysis of genomic alignments. Fourth International Conference on Bioinformatics, Atlanta, Nov. 13-16, 2003.

In preparation/under review:

Kareva, I., Wilkie K. and P. Hahnfeldt. "The Power of the Tumor Microenvironment: a Systemic Approach for a Systemic Disease".

Kareva, I. and P. Hahnfeldt. "Immune Evasion through Competitive Inhibition: the Shielding Effect of Cancer non-Stem Cells".

Kareva, I., Beheshti, A. and P. Hahnfeldt. "Competition Driven Cancer Immunoediting."

Professional Development Workshops, Internships and Conferences
 

2013

2012

Chaste cell-based modeling workshop, January 4-6, Oxford, UK

2011

The 3rd International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations of Biological Systems (ICMAIII), San Antonio, Texas, October 7-9, 2011.

MBI Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology, Columbus, Ohio, August 29-September 1, 2011.

International Conference for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2011), Vancouver, Canada, July 14-16, 2011 (Talk: “Prisoner’s Dilemma in Cancer Metabolism”)

European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, June 28-July 3, 2011

NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Mathematical Models and Body Weight Regulation, July 12-15, 2011

ICIAM 2011, July 18-22, 2011

Rotation in the Maley Lab at Hellen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF. January-April 2011.

2010

Biocomplexity XI. The Evolution of Cooperation: Paradoxes of Collectivity and Individuality. Bloomington, Indiana, December 3-5, 2010  http://biocomplexity.indiana.edu/events/biocXI/

The Helsinki Summer School on Mathematical Ecology and Evolution, August 22nd-29th, 2010  http://wiki.helsinki.fi/display/huippu/mathbio2010

Joint CAMBAM-MBI Summer School on “Networks in Biological Networks”, Montreal, Canada, May 17th-28th, 2010
http://www.mcgill.ca/cambam/cambam_events/cambam-mbi-summer_school/

Summer internship in the Moult Lab at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Worked on understanding mixed distributions that underlie data on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in different diseases.

Winter course on “Delay Equations and Structured Population Models”, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Derio, Spain, January 2010  http://www.bcamath.org/public_courses/ctrl_courses.php

2009

Summer school “Dynamical Systems and Their Applications”. Utrecht, Netherlands, 17-28th August 2009  http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/

Summer school “Mathematical Modeling, Non-linear Dynamics, Stochastic and Complex Systems”. Lyngby, Denmark, 8-15th August, 2009
http://www.dtu.dk/subsites/mmc-master/Studying_in_Denmark/Summerschool.aspx


2008
 

Summer internship at the Laboratory of Integrative and Medical Biophysics, National Center for Child Health and Human Development, NIH. Analyzed images of human retina using ImageJ software. PI: Dr. R. Bonner http://2006annualreport.nichd.nih.gov/limb.htm

2006-2008
 

Laboratory assistant, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, NIH. Prepared slides for immunocytochemistry; cell culture, Western blotting, data collection and statistical analysis.
PI: Dr. W. Bonner http://www3.cancer.gov/intra/lmp/lmppage.htm

2006-07
 

Summer internship at the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI), ASU. Projects involved cancer-immune system modeling,     and neural modeling. Director: Dr. C. Castillo-Chavez http://mtbi.asu.edu/

2003
 

Summer internship at National Center for Bioinformatics, NIH. Performed genome comparisons using online databases and Owen software. PI: Dr. A. Kondrashov
 

Teaching experience:

Spring     2010           Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Probability (aml294), ASU
Fall          2008           Teaching Assistant for Inorganic Chemistry Lab (chem132), UMD

 

Professional Affiliations

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), since 2012

Society of Mathematical Biology (SMB), since 2009

Translations (comments, corrected typos, suggestions for better phrasing are very welcome).

Molchanov, A.M. "Possible Roles of Oscillatory Processes in Evolution"

Molchanov, A.M. "Thermodynamics and Evolution"

Molchanov, A.M. "Time and Evolution"

Molchanov, A.M. "Models in Ecology"

Molchanov, A.M. "Extreme Regimes"

Languages:
Russian (native), English (fluent), French (communication level), German (communication level)

Academic CV in pdf format

Last updated 2/15/2013