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Addressing Interdisciplinary Difficulties in Developmental Biology/Mathematical Collaborations: A Neural Crest Example

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Mathematical modeling can allow insight into the biological processes that can be difficult to access by conventional biological means alone. Such projects are becoming increasingly attractive with the appearance of faster and more powerful quantitative techniques in both biological data acquisition and data storage, manipulation, and presentation. However, as is frequent in interdisciplinary research, the main hurdles are not within the mindset and techniques of each discipline but are usually encountered in attempting to meld the different disciplines together. Based upon our experience in applying mathematical methods to investigate how neural crest cells interact to form the enteric nervous system, we present our views on how to pursue biomathematical modeling projects, what difficulties to expect, and how to overcome, or at least survive, these hurdles. The main advice being: persevere.

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  1. Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Donald F. Newgreen

  2. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Kerry A. Landman & James M. Osborne

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  1. Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia and SA Pathology, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Quenten Schwarz

  2. Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia and SA Pathology, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Sophie Wiszniak

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Newgreen, D.F., Landman, K.A., Osborne, J.M. (2019). Addressing Interdisciplinary Difficulties in Developmental Biology/Mathematical Collaborations: A Neural Crest Example. In: Schwarz, Q., Wiszniak, S. (eds) Neural Crest Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1976. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9412-0_2

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