Joint Meeting of Asian Conference for Mathematical Biology and Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology (ACMB-JSMB2025)

Chair:Takashi Miura(Kyushu University, Japan)

Living organisms have developed beautiful hierarchic network structures to transport materials necessary for maintaining life. Various morphological and functional aspects of the network have been studied. For example, from a morphological viewpoint, the L-system was invented to describe the tree shape. From a functional perspective, Murray's law has been proposed in physiology to explain the optimal shape of the vascular network. However, morphological and functional views tend to be studied independently, and their relationship needs to be better studied. In this session, we present examples of how pattern formation and function of these biological transport structures can be understood by combining experimental and theoretical approaches.