Rebecca Bekker

#MathOnco #MathematicalOncology

@thillen17.bsky.social @cancerevo.org @sandyanderson.bsky.social @mathcancer.bsky.social @smbmathbiology.bsky.social @mathonco.bsky.social @jmetzcar.bsky.social @joshuabull.bsky.social @rrockne.bsky.social @glorenzogz.bsky.social

🎉 The SMB #MathOnco Subgroup is launching its inaugural Early Career Awards!

Grad student or postdoc presenting at #ECMTB2026 / #SMB2026 in Graz? Apply by April 30th!

🔗 smb.org/call-for-award-nominations/

Discover how cutting-edge computational modelling and AI techniques are transforming the way we understand and treat neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) from @jmetzcar.bsky.social, @rebeccabekker.bsky.social , Vinay M. Pai and Jun Park in the #Endocrinologist. 🗞️

👉 www.endocrinology.org/endocrinolog...

Really excited to announce that I joined MD Anderson Cancer Center as a CPRIT TRIUMPH Postdoctoral Fellow this week, currently based in the Dept. of Experimental Radiation Oncology!

Both are solid pieces of advice 😂 you're doing a great job @parmvir.com!!

Randomly listening to #BiologyInNumbers episodes (by @parmvir.com for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social) and really enjoyed @suzannesindi.bsky.social's! I wish I'd heard it during my Ph.D. - esp: "most of the time what you try does not work... it feels like you're always solving a puzzle".

Excited to announce that registration for the 13th
@mathonco.bsky.social workshop on Treatment Revolution is now open. Held onsite @moffittnews.bsky.social Nov 2-Nov 7 #MoffittIMO more details: imo13.eventbrite.com. Deluxe travel awards are available on a competitive basis, apply by 10/03!

I am genuinely excited to be helping students ask innovative questions which challenge perspectives in our field.

Recently read a paper that looked at effects of diff ICI's on CD8+ T cells in the TME. IIRC: one ICI helped prevent exhaustion in newly recruited cells & one rescued CD8's that were already present. Think authors also looked at Lag-3 or TIM-3. Sound familiar? Pls drop a link!

So happy to see this is out! If you're interested in ML + mechanistic models for in silico clinical trials, please read our #mathonco blog post! As always, happy to discuss and open to feedback!

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! It's a great day to present my postdoc work in Improving Response to Immunotherapies in Advanced HER2+ Breast Cancer at #SACB2025.

Hi #mathonco! I'm submitting a grant this year! Super exciting! Super scary. Does anyone have a #mathonco or computational bio K99/R00, K22 (or similar) that they'd be willing to share with me? Specifically looking for input / examples of scope and the mentoring plan. Thank you!!

The participants of the Mechanistic Learning workshop held at BIRS, standing in front of a snowy mountain.

I spent the last week at BIRS discussing mechanistic learning (ML + mechanistic modeling) in #mathonco. Being surrounded by friends & colleagues who love chatting science reminded me that science is a community, and mine is pretty cool.

Hmm the experiment tip is a good one! I wonder how that could translate to in silico settings 🤔 thanks!!

Glad to know I'm not alone! Do you have a specific checklist / method you follow in doing reviews?

5. I also often start with the color schemes listed here: personal.sron.nl/~pault/.

Note: of course this is not an extensive list, just five resources I've found useful! Please let me know if you have any other recommendations!

4. Color palette / gradient generator: coolors.co
Nice feature: you can "lock" colors in a palette, and randomly generate others. Includes color blind simulator.

3. New to me tool: www.learnui.design/tools/access... This page suggests alternative colors that may be more accessible. Give it two hex codes & it'll generate a color similar to the first that contrasts well against the second.

2. My personal favourite: projects.susielu.com/viz-palette Give viz palette a list of hex codes and it'll generate different graphs (box plots, line graphs, scatter plots etc) using the colors. Includes a color blind simulator w greyscale. Reports difficult to distinguish colors.

Sorry for the delay! Here are some tools I use to select / generate color palettes when creating figures (in no particular order).

1. The classic: Colorbrewer2.org. Generates color schemes for sequential, diverging or qualitative data, with colorblind friendly options too.

As a brand new postdoc, I'm getting more invites to review for journals. The last one took me a whole day! Does anyone have any tips / advice on how to be more efficient or a system to follow? Thanks!! #Science #STEM #mathonco

Its so important! There are so many great tools for visualizing & selecting color schemes, including generating color blind friendly palettes! Happy to share my list!

PSA for anxious grad students: unless the evaluation rubric explicitly calls out 'has won prizes' (and I haven't worked with one that does) I am skipping the prizes section of CVs. So if you don't have any, *don't stress and don't undersell yourself*.

Ah, fantastic! Thank you!!

Hi all! I'm slowly migrating from the Other Place to here. Any tips / tricks / features I need to know about? One thing I haven't found is a way to bookmark posts. Am I missing something? Thank you!!

If you're interested in a #mathonco journal club, please fill out this survey. It'll help me plan! forms.gle/xi5Q3sDsLNh1...

Is anyone in #mathonco interested in starting a monthly journal club? I'm mostly focused on the impact of therapy on tumor-immune interactions but I'd be happy to discuss almost anything!

#HiSciSky! I'm in the 5th year of my PhD looking at the immunological consequences of radiotherapy using mathematical oncology 👩‍💻☢️ Starting to look for #postdocs in #mathonco if you know anyone who's hiring!