Publications

Submitted

Refereed Papers

• C. Gonzalez-Tokman, D. B. Oelz: Asymptotic limits of transient patterns in a continuous-space interacting particle system. Accepted for publiction in Proc. R. Soc. A, 2024.
• R. J. Ju, A. D. Falconer, C. K.X. Tang, K. M. Dean, R. P. Fiolka, D. P. Sester, M. Nobis, P. Timpson, A. J. Lomakin, M. D. White, N. K. Haass, D. B. Oelz, S. J. Stehbens: A Microtubule Mechanostat Enables Cells to Navigate Confined Environments bioRXiv . Accepted for publication in Nature Cell Biology, 2024.
• N. Rahman, D. Oelz: A mathematical model for axonal transport of large cargo vesicles. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2024, 88(1), 1
• Wallis, T. P.; Jiang, A.; Young, K; Hou, H.; Kudo, K; McCann, A.; Durisic, N.; Joensuu, M.; Oelz, D.; Nguyen, H; Gormal, R.S.; Meunier, F.A.: Super-resolved trajectory-derived nanoclustering analysis using spatiotemporal indexing. Nature Communications, 2023, 14(1), 3353
• Alexander K. Y. Tam, Alex Mogilner, Dietmar B. Oelz: F-Actin Bending Facilitates Net Actomyosin Contraction By Inhibiting Expansion With Plus-End-Located Myosin Motors bioRXiv J. Math. Biol. 85, 4 (2022).
• E.B. Schenk, F.A. Meunier, D.B. Oelz: Spatial redistribution of neurosecretory vesicles upon stimulation accelerates their directed transport to the plasma membrane. bioRXiv . PLoS ONE 17(3), 2022.
• N. Rahman, R. Marangell, D.B. Oelz: Classification and stability analysis of polarising and depolarising travelling wave solutions for a model of collective cell migration. arXiv . Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 421, 2022.
• A. K. Y. Tam, A. Mogilner, D. B. Oelz: Protein Friction and Filament Bending Facilitate Contraction of Disordered Actomyosin Networks. bioRXiv . Biophysical Journal, Vol. 120, Issue 18, pp. 4029-4040, 2021.
• D. B. Oelz. Quasi-steady-state reduction of a model for cytoplasmic transport of secretory vesicles in stimulated chromaffin cells. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 2021;82(4):29. doi:10.1007/s00285-021-01583-5. preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz, H. Khataee, A. Czirok, Z. Neufeld: Polarization wave at the onset of collective cell migration. Phys. Rev. E 100, 032403 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.032403
• J. Allard, M. Doumic, A. Mogilner, D. Oelz: Bidirectional sliding of two parallel microtubules generated by multiple identical motors. J. Math. Biol. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-019-01369-w
• D. B. Oelz, U. del Castillo, V. I. Gelfand, A. Mogilner: Microtubule dynamics, kinesin-1 sliding and dynein action drive growth of cell processes. Biophysical Journal, 115(8), pp. 1614-1624, 2018
• Milisic, Vuk and Oelz, Dietmar. Space dependent adhesion forces mediated by transient elastic linkages: New convergence and global existence results. Journal of Differential Equations, Volume 265, Issue 12, 15 December 2018, pp. 6049-6082
• D. Oelz, A. Mogilner: A drift-diffusion model for molecular motor transport in anisotropic filament bundles. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series A, 36(8), pp. 4553-4567, 2016. preprint(pdf)
• S. Hirsch, D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser: Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a model of non-sarcomeric actomyosin bundles. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series A 36 (2016), pp. 4945-4962. preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz, A. Mogilner: Actomyosin contraction, aggregation and traveling waves in a treadmilling actin array. Physica D, Vol 318-319, pp 70-83, 2016. preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz, B. Rubinstein, A. Mogilner: A Combination of Actin Treadmilling and Cross-Linking Drives Contraction of Random Actomyosin Arrays (Contraction of random actomyosin arrays is enabled by the combined effect of actin treadmilling and crosslinking). Biophys. J., Vol. 109, Issue 9, p1818-1829, 3 Nov. 2015 preprint(pdf)
• V. Milisic, D. Oelz: Tear-off versus global existence for a structured model of adhesion mediated by transient elastic linkages. Commun. Math. Sci., Vol. 14, No. 5, pp 1353-1372, 2016. preprint(arxiv)
• A. Manhart, D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser , N. Sfakianakis: An extended Filament Based Lamellipodium Model produces various moving cell shapes in the presence of chemotactic signals. J. Theor. Bio., Volume 382, 7 October 2015, pp. 244-258. preprint(arxiv) , ( Movie 1, Movie 2)
• V. Milisic, D. Oelz: On a Structured Model for Load-Dependent Reaction Kinetics of Transient Elastic Linkages Mediating Nonlinear Friction. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 2015 47:3, 2104-2121. preprint(pdf)
• J. Haskovec, D. Oelz: A free boundary problem for aggregation by short range sensing and differentiated diffusion. DCDS-B, Vol. 20, Issue 5, July 2015 , pp. 1461 - 1480, preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz, S. Trabelsi: Analysis of a relaxation scheme for a nonlinear Schrödinger equation occurring in Plasma Physics. preprint(pdf) Mathematical Modelling and Analysis. Volume 19, Issue 2, 2014
• D. Oelz: A viscous two-phase model for contractile actomyosin bundles. preprint(pdf) , J. of Math. Biology, Journal of Math. Biology, June 2014, Volume 68, Issue 7, pp 1653-1676.
• D. Oelz: Convergence of the penalty method applied to a constrained curve straightening flow. preprint(pdf) , Comm. in Math. Sciences. Vol. 12 (2014), 4, pp. 601 – 621
• V. Milisic, D. Oelz: On the asymptotic regime of a model for friction mediated by transient elastic linkages. Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées, Volume 96, Issue 5, Nov. 2011,484-501.
• D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser: Simulation of lamellipodial fragments. Journal of Mathematical Biology, 64:513-528, 2012. preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz: On the curve straightening flow of inextensible, open, planar curves. preprint(pdf) , SeMA Journal, no. 54 (2011), 5-24
• D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser: Derivation of a model for symmetric lamellipodia with instantaneous cross-link turnover. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., Volume 198, Issue 3 (2010), Page 963. preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser, J. V. Small: Modelling of the Actin-cytoskeleton in symmetric lamellipodial fragments. Cell Adhesion and Migration, 2/2(2008), 117 - 126 preprint(pdf) , 2008
• V. Calvez, N. Lenuzza, D. Oelz, J-Ph. Deslys, P. Laurent, F. Mouthon, B. Perthame: Size distribution dependence of prion aggregates infectivity. Math. Biosci. 217, No. 1, 88-99 (2009). Preprint HAL hal-00255790 .
• C. Lederman, D. Oelz: A quasilinear parabolic singular perturbation problem. Interfaces and Free Boundaries 10, No 4 (2008), p. 447-482
• J. Dolbeault, P. Markowich, D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser: Non linear Diffusions as Limit of Kinetic Equations with Relaxation Collision Kernels. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 186(2007), 133-158,. preprint(pdf)
• F. Chalub, Y. Dolak-Struss, P.A. Markowich, D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser, A. Soreff: Model hierarchies for cell aggregation by chemotaxis. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Supplementary Issue 1 (2006) 1173-1197 preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser, A. Soreff: Multistep navigation of leukocytes: a stochastic model with memory effects , Math. Med. Biol. 22, No. 4, 291-303 (2005). preprint(pdf) , movie

Articles in Conference Proceedings:

• Vats, Y., Mehra, M., Oelz, D., Gandhi, S.R.: Fractional order modified Treves model: Simulation and Learning. 2023 International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications, ICFDA 2023
• D. Oelz: "Modeling of friction effects caused by protein linkages." In: W. Alt, D. Ambrosi: Mini-Workshop (Mechanics of Cell Motion). Oberwolfach Reports, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 2165-2193 (2010) .
• D. Oelz: "Force generation and contraction of random actomyosin bundles." D. Ambrosi,C. Liu, M. Röger, A. Stevens: In The Mathematics of Mechanobiology and Cell Signaling. Oberwolfach Reports 8/2018.

Chapters in books:

• Manhart, Angelika , Oelz, Dietmar , Schmeiser, Christian and Sfakianakis, Nikolaos: Numerical treatment of the Filament-Based Lamellipodium Model (FBLM). In Frederik Graw, Franziska Matthäus and Jürgen Pahle (Ed.), Modeling cellular systems (pp. 141-159) Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017. preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz, C. Schmeiser: How do cells move? mathematical modelling of cytoskeleton dynamics and cell migration. In Cell mechanics: from single scale-based models to multiscale modelling, eds. A. Chauviere, L. Preziosi, and C. Verdier, Chapman and Hall / CRC Press, 2010. preprint(pdf)
• D. Oelz, P. Markowich: Chemotactic cell motion and biological pattern formation. In: Applied Partial Differential Equations: A Visual Approach (by P. Markowich). December 28, 2006.

Formal academic publications:

• Diploma thesis: Modelling and simulation of Leukocyte Chemotaxis and comparison with migration experiments. Vienna, 2003
• PhD thesis: Asymptotic nonlinear models in Mathematical Physics and Biology. Vienna, 2007

Teaching

At UQ I am/have been teaching courses on ODEs, PDEs, Dynamical Systems (Bifurcations & Chaos), Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Biology and Scientific Computing.

Earlier I have been teaching variational calculus & PDEs (U. de San Luis), Mathematics for Biologists (U. of Vienna), Mathematics for Chemists (U. of Linz) as well as calculus (New York U.).

Short CV

I studied Technical Mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology. I also earned a Master's degree in Law and I finished the first ("non-clinical") part of Medical Studies at the University of Vienna. Under the direction of Christian Schmeiser and Peter Markowich I earned my PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Vienna in 2007. During this time I spent several months at the University of Buenos Aires and at the ENS-Paris rue d'Ulm.

Before coming to UQ, I held post-doc positions at the Wolfgang Pauli Insitute (Vienna), University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (RICAM). In 2013 I won an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). I was a post-doc researcher in the group of Alex Mogilner first at UC Davis, then at the Courant Institute of Math. Sciences (New York University).

Prizes

• 13th Bellman Prize (2011) for the paper "Size distribution dependence of prion aggregates infectivity" (2009) award by the journal "Mathematical Biosciences".

Fellowships, Grants

• 2017: ARC Discovery Project (2018-2022): "How motor proteins contract the cell cortex and form a cell division ring"
• 2013: Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship J3463-N25 (EUR 155.595,00) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Organization of conferences and workshops

• I organized, together with N. Sfakianakis (U. Mainz) the mini-symposium "Modeling and Simulations of Biopolymeric Meshworks" at the 2012 SMB meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee
• Apr 23-25 2014. Together with Vuk Milisic (Univ. Paris XIII) I organized the workshop "Structured Integro-Differential models in Mathematical Biology" hosted and financially supported by the Wolfgang Pauli Insitute (Vienna).
• Nov 4, 2021. Qanziam Student and ECR conference. Brisbane (St Lucia campus)
• Feb 5-Feb 9 2023. Together we em. Prof. Jerzy Filar I'll be the co-chair of the 2023 ANZIAM conference.

• August 2004, Workshop on Kinetic models for multiscale problems at the Banff International Research Station in Alberta.
• Workshop on Mathematical Methods and Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena organised by the IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, in February 2005
• Workshop on Bioinformatics and Biomathematics organised by the WPI, Ecole polytechnique and IPM in Teheran in April 2005 (invited talk)
• ECMTB conference on Mathematical Biology, organised by ESMTB and SMB, Dresden, July 18-22, 2005
• Invited talk at the International Conference ISAAC 2005 in Catania, Italy, July 25-30, 2005
• III International Symposium on Nonlinear PDEs and Free Boundary Problems in Buenos Aires, August 1st-5th, 2005
• Workshop on Cell Motility and Cytoskeletal Dynamics at the WPI, Vienna, November 2005
• Workshop on Mathematical Methods and Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena organised by the IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, in March 2006
• Life Sciences Day of the WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund), June 2006 ( Poster )
• Invited talk, Modelización de la dinámica de filamentos de Actin en lamellipodias de keratocytos , Universidad Nacional de San Luis (UNSL, Argentina), 28 of July 2006, (esta charla se dio en castellano!!!)
• Participation in the EMS summer school Mathematics in Molecular Cell Biology in Linz, September 2006
• Talk at the Workshop on Mathematical Modelling of Actin-Based Motility organised by the WPI, Vienna, November 2006
• March-June 2007: Short stay at the ENS-Paris/DMA in the framework of the DEASE-Marie Curie Early Stage Training multi site.
• Apri 2007: Invited talk at the Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
• July-September 2007: Visiting professor at the Universidad Nacionál de San Luis, Argentina (UNSL), invited talk in July 2007
• September 2007: Invited Talk at the Workshop on "Mathematical Methods and Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena", Buzios, Brazil. Organised by the IMPA, Rio de Janeiro.
• October 2007: Course on "Cell shape changes : Division, movements, morphogenesis" , Paris, Oct 8, 2007 to Oct 12, 2007, organised by the Institut Curie, Paris.
• March 2008: Talk on "On the curve straightening flow of planar open curves." DAMTP (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) University of Cambridge, UK.
• April, 10-12 2008: Invited talk at the conference on "PDE and variational methods in life sciences" with the title "From the curve straightening flow in the plane to a model for the Lamellipodial Actin-cytoskeleton" at the Journées de Metz 2008, University of Metz, France.
• May 27-30, 2008: Poster at the Workshop on "Quantitative Approaches to Cell Motility and Chemotaxis" at the IMA , Minneapolis, NN.
• July-August 2008: Research stay at the Universidad Nacionál de San Luis, Argentina (UNSL). August 29th, 2008: talk with the title "On the Curve Straightening Flow of Planar Curves."
• October 2008: Research stay at the Universidad of Creta, Greece.
• February 9 to 13 2009: Conference on Mathematical Biology: Modelling and Differential Equations at the Center of Mathematical Research (CRM, Barcelona).
• March 15 to 21, 2009: Invited Talk at the conference on "Mathematical Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena", Angra dos Reis, Brazil. Organised by the IMPA, Rio de Janeiro.
• July 13 to 17, 2009: Poster at the workshop on "Multiscale Analysis of Self-Organization in Biology", Banff Internation Research Station, Canada.
• August 22 to 28, 2010: Mini-Workshop: Mechanics of Cell Motion in Oberwolfach
• March 20 to 26, 2011. Invited talk at the conference "Mathematical Methods and Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena" in Iguazu, Brazil. Organised by the IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
• June 28 - July 2, 2011, 8th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Krakow.
• 26-28 September 2011, Nonlinear PDEs arising in mathematical biology, ICMS, Edinburgh
• June 22, 2012 Seminar Talk "Modeling of asymmetric segregation of PIE-1 in C-elegans embryos" at the LAGA of Université Paris XIII.
• Talk at the Minisymposium "Modeling and Simulations of Biopolymeric Meshworks" in the SMB Meeting in Knoxville (Tennessee), July 2012
• Talk at the workshop "Cell biology and physiology: PDE models" in Heraklion (Greece), October 4 to 6, 2012.
• Febr 9-24, 2013, Research stay at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
• March 3-9, 2013, Workshop "Mathematical Methods and Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena", IMPA, Cabo Frio, Brasil
• Mai 29-June2, 2013, 4th Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD4), Taiyuan, China
• Feb 15-Feb 19, 2014, Annual Conference of the Society for Biophysics, San Francisco
• June 5: Seminar talk in the Applied Math Lab Seminar (Courant Institute, New York Unversity).
• Oct 27-31, 2014: EMBO Workshop on a Systems-Level View of Cytoskeletal Function, Stockholm
• November 25: Seminar talk in the Biomathematics/Computational Biology Colloquium (Courant Institute, New York Unversity).
• February 7-11, 2015, 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Biophysics, Baltimore
• March 1-5, 2015, Workshop "Mathematical Methods and Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena", IMPA, Cabo Frio, Brasil.
• July 2 2015. Contributed talk at the SMB-Meeting in Atlanta, GA.
• May 20-22 2016. Contributed talk, BAMM (Biology and Medicine through Mathematics) meeting, VCU, Richmond VA.
• July, 2016. Invited mini-symposium talk at the SIAM conference Life Sciences, Boston.
• Nov 2017. Biomath, IMPA, Brazil.
• Feb 25-March 3, 2018. Oberwolfach-conference on "The Mathematics of Mechanobiology and Cell Signaling"
• April 25-28, 2018. Christian Schmeiser's 60th birthday conference, Vienna, Austria.
• Jun 8, 2018. Seminar talk, University of Adelaide
• July 8-12, 2018: SMB (Society for Math. Biology) annual meeting, Sydney, Australia.
• Oct 18, 2018. Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson
• Dec 6, 2018. MAMBA-meeting (Sorbonne University, Paris)
• Feb 4-7 2019, Anziam meeting, Nelson NZ.
• Mar 13, 2019, Applied Mathematics Seminar talk, QUT, Brisbane
• May 9, 2019, seminar talk, RICAM, Linz, Austria
• Sep, 2019, Dynamics, Equations and Applications (DEA 2019), Crakow, Poland
• Feb 2-6, 2020, ANZIAM meeting, Hunter Valley NSW, Australia
• Jan 31- Feb 5, 2021, virtual ANZIAM meeting, Australia
• June 20-26, 2021, 8th European Congress of Mathematics, Portoroz, Slovenia (virtual participation)
• BIRS-CMO cell motility meeting, Oaxaca, Mexica. Online, Sept 26 - Oct 01, 2021.
• Nov 29-Dec 1 2021, ASB (Australian Society for Biophysics) meeting, (online)
• Feb 6-Feb 11 2022 (online), ANZIAM meeting 2022,
• Jul 12-Jul 15, 2022 , 15th Viennese Conference on Optimal Control and Dynamic Games (invited talk), Vienna, Austria
• Nov 6- Nov 9, 2022 International Symposium on Mechanobiology (selected talk), Sydney, Australia
• Feb 5-Feb 9 2023, ANZIAM meeting 2023 (conference co-chair), Cairns, Australia
• Nov 20-Nov 22, 2023, Meeting of the Australian Society for Mechanobiology, Melbourne.
• Feb 11-Feb 15 2024, ANZIAM meeting 2024, Adelaide, Australia