Preprints

• AJ Diefes^‡, B Sbaiti^‡, MV Ciocanel, and CM Kim. Mathematical modeling and sensitivity analysis of synNotch-CAR T-cells identify engineering targets for dynamic tunability (submitted, 2025).
• MV Ciocanel, BR Karamched. Both Sides Now: Modeling Motor Regulation of Microtubule Length at Both Ends (submitted, 2025).
• MV Ciocanel, JT Nardini, KB Flores, EM Rutter, SS Sindi, A Volkening. Enhancing generalizability of model discovery across parameter space with multi-experiment equation learning (ME-EQL) (in review, 2025). ArXiv..
• CM Topaz, K Durante, C Thomas, MV Ciocanel, Z Stanley. Presidential Appointments, Sentencing Discretion, and Ethnoracial Disparities in U.S. Federal Courts (submitted, 2025). SocArXiv..

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. HG Scanlon, GM, AC Nelson, SA McKinley, MM Rolls, MV Ciocanel. Nucleation feedback can drive establishment and maintenance of biased microtubule polarity in neurites (Mathematical Biosciences, 2025). DOI, ArXiv..
2. AC Nelson, SA McKinley, MM Rolls, MV Ciocanel. Emergent microtubule properties in a model of filament turnover and nucleation (Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2025). DOI, ArXiv.
3. DJ Wieczynski^*, MM Giglietti^‡, N Sortisio^‡, ZY Han^†, Y Yuan^†, M Onishi, MV Ciocanel, JP Gibert. Intraspecific variation in reaction norms mediates eco-evolutionary responses to environmental change (accepted to The American Naturalist, 2025).
4. MV Ciocanel, P Gandhi, K Niklas, AT Dawes. Characterizing symmetry transitions in systems with dynamic morphology (Mathematical Biosciences, 2025) DOI.
5. AC Nelson^*, M Rolls, MV Ciocanel, SA McKinley. Minimal Mechanisms of Microtubule Length Regulation in Living Cells (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2024) DOI, arXiv.
6. MV Ciocanel, L Ding^‡, L Mastromatteo^‡, S Reichheld^‡, S Cabral, K Mowry, B Sandstede. Parameter identifiability in PDE models of fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2024) DOI, arXiv.
7. CM Topaz, S Ning, MV Ciocanel, S Bushway. Federal Criminal Sentencing: Race-Based Disparate Impact and Differential Treatment in Judicial Districts (Humanit Soc Sci Commun, 2023) DOI.
8. J Benson, M Bessonov, K Burke, S Cassani, MV Ciocanel, DB Cooney, A Volkening. How do classroom-turnover times depend on lecture-hall size? (Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2023) DOI.
9. N Goldrosen, CM Smith, MV Ciocanel, R Santorella^†, S Sen, S Bushway, CM Topaz. Racial Disparities in Criminal Sentencing Vary Considerably across Federal Judges (Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2023) DOI.
10. Madeleine Dawson^‡, Carson Dudley^‡, Sasamon Omoma^‡, Hwai-Ray Tung^†, MV Ciocanel. Characterizing emerging features in cell dynamics using topological data analysis methods (Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2022) DOI.
11. MV Ciocanel. Applications of PDEs and Stochastic Modeling to Protein Transport in Cell Biology (Notices of the AMS, 2022) html , arXiv.
12. MV Ciocanel, A Chandrasekaran, C Mager^‡, Q Ni, G Papoian, AT Dawes. Simulated actin reorganization mediated by motor proteins (PLOS Computational Biology, 2022) DOI.
13. P Gandhi, MV Ciocanel, Karl Niklas, AT Dawes. Identification of approximate symmetries in biological development (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2021) DOI.
14. K Mallory^†, JR Abrams^‡, A Schwartz^‡, MV Ciocanel, A Volkening, and B Sandstede. Influenza spread on context-specific networks lifted from interaction-based diary data (Royal Society Open Science, 2021) DOI.
15. MV Ciocanel, R. Juenemann^‡, AT Dawes, SA McKinley. Topological Data Analysis Approaches to Uncovering the Timing of Ring Structure Onset in Filamentous Networks (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2021). DOI, arXiv.
16. MV Ciocanel, CM Topaz, R Santorella^†, S Sen, CM Smith, A Hufstetler^‡. JUSTFAIR: Judicial System Transparency through Federal Archive Inferred Records (PloS One, 2020). DOI , SocArXiv.
17. MV Ciocanel, J Fricks, P Kramer, SA McKinley. Renewal Reward Perspective on Linear Switching Diffusion Systems in Models of Intracellular Transport (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2020). DOI , arXiv.
18. MV Ciocanel, P Jung, A Brown. A mechanism for neurofilament transport acceleration through nodes of Ranvier (Molecular Biology of the Cell, 2020). DOI , bioRxiv.
19. MJ Panaggio, MV Ciocanel, L Lazarus, CM Topaz, B Xu. Model reconstruction from temporal data for coupled oscillator networks (Chaos, 2019). DOI , Arxiv.
20. MV Ciocanel, B Sandstede, SP Jeschonek, and KL Mowry. Modeling microtubule-based transport and anchoring of mRNA (SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2018). DOI , PDF.
21. MV Ciocanel, SS Docken, RE Gasper, C Dean, BE Carlson, and MS Olufsen. Cardiovascular regulation in response to multiple hemorrhages: Analysis and parameter estimation (Biological Cybernetics, 2018). DOI.
22. MV Ciocanel, TL Stepien, I Sgouralis, and AT Layton. A Multicellular Vascular Model of the Renal Myogenic Response (Processes (Systems Biomedicine), 2018). DOI.
23. MV Ciocanel, JA Kreiling, JA Gagnon, KL Mowry, and B Sandstede. Analysis of Active Transport by Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching (Biophysical Journal, 2017). DOI .
24. MV Ciocanel, TL Stepien, A Edwards, and AT Layton. Modeling Autoregulation of the Afferent Arteriole of the Rat Kidney (Women in Mathematical Biology, Springer, 2017). DOI .
25. EA Powrie, MV Ciocanel, JA Kreiling, JA Gagnon, B Sandstede, and KL Mowry. Using in vivo imaging to measure RNA mobility in Xenopus laevis oocytes (Methods, 2016). DOI .
26. MV Ciocanel, T Witelski. Modeling and Numerical Simulation of the Nonlinear Dynamics of the Parametrically Forced String Pendulum. (SIURO (SIAM Undergraduate Research Online), 2012). PDF.

* - postdoctoral scholar mentored
† - graduate student mentored
‡ - undergraduate student mentored

Other Peer-Reviewed Articles

• MV Ciocanel, N Goldrosen^†, and CM Topaz. Quantifying Federal Sentence Disparities with Inferred Sentencing Records. SIAM News Blog, 2023.
• MV Ciocanel, JT Nardini. Online and In-Person Interviewing for Tenure-Track Positions. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Early Career Collection, 2022.
• KE Johnson^†, MV Ciocanel, J Aponte, N Bajeux, F Meng and D Bottino. Evaluation of pharmacologic mechanisms to overcome IgG1 antibody (Ab) resistance via quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) modeling of antibody-dependent cell mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC). AACR Annual Meeting Proceedings, July 2021.
• H Adams, MV Ciocanel, CM Topaz, L Ziegelemeier. Topological Data Analysis of Collective Motion. SIAM News, January 2020.
• C Topaz, MV Ciocanel, P Cohen, M Ott, N Rodriguez. Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (QSIDE). Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 67(2), 2020.

Student Publication (supervised)

• M Morrissey^‡, J Collignon^‡. Propagation of lead in the human body. SIAM Undergraduate Research Online 10 (2017) PDF

Theses

• MV Ciocanel. Modeling Intracellular Transport during Messenger RNA Localization in Xenopus Oocytes. PhD thesis in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 2017 (Advisor: Björn Sandstede). PDF
• MV Ciocanel. Modeling and Numerical Simulation of the Nonlinear Dynamics of the Forced Planar String Pendulum. Honors thesis, Duke University, 2012 (Supervisor: Tom Witelski). PDF

Project-based Workshop Reports

• M Olufsen (faculty mentor), MV Ciocanel, S Docken, R Gasper, S Langford, W Samyono. Modeling blood withdrawal in the cardiovascular system, MRC, Snowbird, 2016.
• V Venkateshwaran (industry mentor), Z He (industry mentor), C Bi, MV Ciocanel, S Hill, D Rumschitzki, B Tilley. Filtration properties of compressed porous membranes, MPI, Duke University, 2016.
• J Han (industry mentor), MV Ciocanel, H Hardeman, D Nasserden, B Son, and S Ye. Deducing Rock Properties from Spectral Seismic Data, IMA, 2015.