The award of the Australian Mathematics Society (AustMS) Lift-O? Fellowship allowed me to develop new mathematical skills and collaborative links in an area of research that is distinct to that of my PhD. The ?nancial support provided by the Fellowship resulted in a two-week research trip to visit Associate Professor Kevin Painter at Politecnico di Torino, in Turin, Italy. During the course of this visit, Assoc. Prof. Painter and I discussed our mutual interest in understanding the process of directed motion, that is, how individuals undergo movement where the choice of direction is informed by an underlying environmental cue. This mechanism is ubiquitous in organisms of all sizes, from swimming bacteria seeking nutrients, to cells migrating up chemical gradients, to butter?ies traversing terrain to arrive at hilltops for breeding. Additionally, during my visit, I was able to present a seminar of the research work conducted during the course of my PhD, involving mathematical models of cell migration and proliferation, as well as approaches for interfacing these models with experimental data to obtain quantitative insight.
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机译：澳大利亚数学学会（AustMS）的奖项Lift-O？奖学金使我得以在与我的博士学位截然不同的研究领域中发展新的数学技能和协作联系。该研究金提供的财政支持导致了为期两周的研究访问，访问了意大利都灵Politecnico di Torino的Kevin Painter副教授。在这次访问过程中，Assoc。我和Painter教授讨论了我们对理解定向运动过程的共同兴趣，即在潜在的环境提示指导方向选择的情况下，个体如何运动。这种机制普遍存在于各种规模的生物中，从游动细菌以寻找营养，到沿化学梯度向上迁移的细胞，再到穿过山顶到达山顶进行繁殖的黄油。此外，在我访问期间，我能够介绍一个在博士期间进行的研究工作的研讨会，其中涉及细胞迁移和增殖的数学模型，以及将这些模型与实验数据进行交互以获得定量见解的方法。
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