Dr Dawn Walker

About

Dr Dawn Walker is a senior lecturer in the Complex Systems Modelling Group in the School of Computer Science. Her research interests include the use of individual-based models to understand the function and structure of biological tissues, multi-scale and multi-paradigm models in biology and medicine and Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) for early epithelial cancer diagnosis.

Selected publications

• Lin Z, Lang Z-Q, Guo L, Walker DC, Matella M, Wang M & Murdoch C (2025) Deep learning-based electrical impedance spectroscopy analysis for malignant and potentially malignant oral disorder detection. Scientific Reports, 15. View this article in WRRO
• Wertheim KY, Chisholm R, Richmond P & Walker D (2024) Multicellular model of neuroblastoma proposes unconventional therapy based on multiple roles of p53. PLOS Computational Biology, 20(12). View this article in WRRO
• Borau C, Chisholm R, Richmond P & Walker D (2024) An agent-based model for cell microenvironment simulation using FLAMEGPU2. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 179. View this article in WRRO
• Matella M, Hunter K, Balasubramanian S & Walker D (2024) The use of virtual tissue constructs that include morphological variability to assess the potential of electrical impedance spectroscopy to differentiate between thyroid and parathyroid tissues during surgery. Sensors, 24(7). View this article in WRRO
• Matella M, Hunter K, Balasubramanian S & Walker DC (2024) Multiscale model development for electrical properties of thyroid and parathyroid tissues. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 5, 661-669. View this article in WRRO
• Borau C, Wertheim KY, Hervas-Raluy S, Sainz-DeMena D, Walker D, Chisholm R, Richmond P, Varella V, Viceconti M, Montero A , Gregori-Puigjané E et al (2023) A multiscale orchestrated computational framework to reveal emergent phenomena in neuroblastoma. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 241. View this article in WRRO
• Italia M, Wertheim KY, Taschner-Mandl S, Walker D & Dercole F (2023) Mathematical model of clonal evolution proposes a personalised multi-modal therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma. Cancers, 15(7).
• Mason AS, Varley CL, Foody OM, Li X, Skinner K, Walker D, Larson TR, Wakamatsu D, Baker SC & Southgate J (2022) LPCAT4 knockdown alters barrier integrity and cellular bioenergetics in human urothelium. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(19).
• Heath JP, Hunter KD, Murdoch C & Walker DC (2022) Computational modelling for electrical impedance spectroscopy-based diagnosis of oral potential malignant disorders (OPMD). Sensors, 22(15). View this article in WRRO
• Kondylakis H, Ciarrocchi E, Cerda-Alberich L, Chouvarda I, Fromont LA, Garcia-Aznar JM, Kalokyri V, Kosvyra A, Walker D, Yang G & Neri E (2022) Position of the AI for Health Imaging (AI4HI) network on metadata models for imaging biobanks. European Radiology Experimental, 6(1).