Darshi traveled to Lake Tahoe, NV for the First International Symposium of Mathematical and Computational Oncology (ISMCO 2019). At the symposium Darshi gave an oral presentation of her work on Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Tumor Growth and Metabolism using Genome-Scale Metabolic Networks (GEMs) using Dynamic Flux Balance Analysis (dFBA).
I was the youngest presenter at the conference.
Darshi’s presentation was given to oncologists, senior scientists and researchers in the field. She was also able to use the opportunity to do a lot of networking.
The Biology Travel Grant helped me plan my trip as inexpensively as possible since I was under strict budget constraints.
Darshi was sponsored by Dr. Daniel Segre of the Biology Department, the Biomedical Engineering Department, and the Bioinformatics program. She also had done research previously in Dr. Segre’s lab, an experience which helped contribute to her presentation at the symposium.
