Welcome to Biomath 2025
The annual international conference on Mathematical Methods and Models in Biosciences (Biomath) will take place from 15 June to 20 June 2025
at the campus of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI) and the Institute of Mechanics.
Biomath 2025 is devoted to recent research in life sciences based
on applications of mathematics as well as mathematics applied to or motivated by biological studies. It is a multidisciplinary meeting forum
for researchers who develop and apply mathematical and computational tools to the study of phenomena in the broad fields of biology, ecology,
medicine, biophysics, biochemistry, pharmacokinetics, chemoinformatics, biotechnology, bioengineering, environmental science, etc.
Furthermore, Biomath 2025 includes a Special Topic session on Mathematical Models of the Immune system in Human Disease.
Advances in genetics
and biochemistry have opened novel opportunities for accumulating knowledge about the organization, dynamics, and regulation of the human immune
system. The use of mathematics can contribute to expand our understanding of mechanisms underlying infectious and immune-mediated diseases based
on available experimental or clinical data. The session seeks to create a focused opportunity for presentation, discussion and exchange of
mathematical and computational models of immunological processes in different human diseases. Topics of interest include: within-host models of
host-pathogen interactions, cancer and immunotherapy, immunity and vaccination, autoimmunity and inflammation, signaling pathways, regulatory networks, multiscale immuno-epidemiological models, etc.
The Special Topic session is a follow-up to the Workshop on Mathematical
Perspectives on Immunobiology 2023 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
Contributed talks related to the scope of the conference are invited for presentation. Participants need to submit a one or two page
abstract indicating
clearly the significance of the reported results for the advancement of knowledge in bioscience. If the abstract is for a talk intended for the
special session, please communicate this at the time of submission.
Manuscripts based on the conference presentations are welcomed for submission to the journal Biomath
(for Volume 14 (2025), the deadline is 30 September 2025).
The conference continues a tradition of scientific meetings on Biomathematics since 1995 (see Biomath Conference Series). It is supported by several research units of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (such as the Institutes of Mathematics and Informatics, Information and Communication Technologies, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Mechanics, Neurobiology, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, etc.) and several Universities (Sofia University "Kl. Ohridski", Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski", South-West University "N. Rilski"), as well as the Union of the Bulgarian Mathematicians and the Biomath Forum. International partners of the Biomath series of conferences are the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and the DST/NRF SARChI Chair on Mathematical Models and Methods in Bioengineering and Biosciences at the University of Pretoria, and the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the University of Warsaw.
Biomath School for Young Scientists
The school comprises plenary lectures and sessions for contributed talks.
The lectures at the school are of more introductory nature giving foundations and insight into the respective topic rather then focusing on new results and are
presented by some of the keynote speakers of the conference. A central event for the school is the Hot Topics Workshop. Several scholars act as moderators,
presenting "hot areas" and related open problems. All PhD students and young scientists participating in the conference are considered members of the
school.
Contacts:
Roumen Anguelov (University of Pretoria and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS)
e-mail: roumen.anguelov@up.ac.za, tel: +1 345 3252428
and
Peter Rashkov (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, BAS)
e-mail: peter.rashkov@math.bas.bg, tel: +359 2 9793885