3 papers
q-bio.QM2026
An efficient and flexible generalization of transit compartment models for delayed biological processes
Giulia Belluccini, Christiaan H. van Dorp, Linjie Huang +3
Transit compartment models are widely used in pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics to represent delayed biological processes such as absorption, maturation, cellular proliferation, an…
q-bio.PE2024
A story of viral co-infection, co-transmission and co-feeding in ticks: how to compute an invasion reproduction number
Giulia Belluccini, Qianying Lin, Bevelynn Williams +7
With a single circulating vector-borne virus, the basic reproduction number incorporates contributions from tick-to-tick (co-feeding), tick-to-host and host-to-tick transmission ro…
q-bio.CB2021
A multi-stage model of cell proliferation and death: tracking cell divisions with Erlang distributions
Giulia Belluccini, Martín López-García, Grant Lythe +1
Lymphocyte populations, stimulated in vitro or in vivo, grow as cells divide. Stochastic models are appropriate because some cells undergo multiple rounds of division, some die, an…