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Dr. Marcella Torres

Teaching Faculty of Mathematics
Director of Mathematical Instruction for SMART
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    • Presentations

      (Selected Presentations)

      Torres, M. A Mathematical Model of Muscle Hypertrophy in Response to Resistance Training. Keynote address. XI International Symposium in Strength Training, Madrid, Spain. Dec, 2018.

      Torres, M., Wang, J., Yannie, P., Segal, R., Reynolds, A., & Ghosh, S. (2018). Development and Validation of a Mathematical Model Representing Complex Cellular Interactions Within the Artery Wall: in Silico Approach to Test Targeted Interventions. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 38(Suppl_1), A232-A232.

  • Selected Publications
    Journal Articles

    Bakry, A., Brashear, E., Brashear, J., Jones, S. Z., & Torres, M. M. (2025). Development of a mathematical model of the innate immune response to inhaled toxicants. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 611, 112159.  [article]  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2024.112159

    Niarakis, A., Laubenbacher, R., An, G., Ilan, Y., Fisher, J., Flobak, Å., Reiche, K., Rodríguez Martínez, M., Geris, L., Ladeira, L., & Torres, M. (et al.). (2024). Immune digital twins for complex human pathologies: applications, limitations, and challenges. NPJ Systems Biology and Applications, 10(1), 141.  [article]  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-024-00450-5

    Jones, S., Blake, A., Corado-Santiago, L., Crenshaw, J., Goldman, E., Gomez, F., Hall, C., Hoke, H., Holmes, S., Kornegay, B., & Torres, M. (et al.). (2023). A SMART decade: outcomes of an integrated, inclusive, first-year college-level STEM curricular innovation. Frontiers in Education, 8, 1152339.  [article]  https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1152339

    Karr, J., Malik-Sheriff, R. S., Osborne, J., Gonzalez-Parra, G., Forgoston, E., Bowness, R., ... & Torres, M. (2022). Model integration in computational biology: the role of reproducibility, credibility and utility. Frontiers in Systems Biology, 2.

    Torres, M. (2022). Biology in Time and Space: A Partial Differential Equation Modeling Approach. James Keener, American Mathematical Society, 2021. 308 pp., ISBN 978-1-4704-5428-9, $99.00.

    Torres, Marcella. "A Machine Learning Method for Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis." In International Conference on Computational Science, pp. 330-343. Springer, Cham, 2021. 

    Balreira, Cabral, Casey Hawthorne, Grace Stadnyk, Zeynep Teymuroglu, Marcella Torres, and Joanna Wares. 2021. “Resources for Supporting Mathematics and Data Science Instructors During COVID-19”. Letters in Biomathematics 8(1), 49–83. https://lettersinbiomath.org/article-view.php?id=139. 

    Torres, M., Wang, J., Yannie, P. J., Ghosh, S., Segal, R. A., & Reynolds, A. M. (2019). Identifying important parameters in the inflammatory process with a mathematical model of immune cell influx and macrophage polarization. PLoS computational biology, 15(7), e1007172.

    Torres, M., Trexler, E. T., Smith-Ryan, A. E., & Reynolds, A. (2018). A mathematical model of the effects of resistance exercise-induced muscle hypertrophy on body composition. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 118(2), 449-460.

    Book Chapters

    Stone, A. M., Teymuroglu, Z., Torres, M., & Wares, J. R. (2024). Supporting Teaching and Learning Mathematics during COVID-19. In Contemporary Research in Mathematical Biology Modeling, Computation and Analysis (p. 600). World Scientific.  [chapter]

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