Qi Zhao

Qi Zhao
Boston University | BU · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Understanding how microbes assemble into communities is a fundamental open issue in biology, relevant to human health, metabolic engineering, and environmental sustainability. A possible mechanism for interactions of microbes is through cross-feeding, i.e., the exchange of small molecules. These metabolic exchanges may allow different microbes to s...
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Microbes face a tradeoff between being metabolically independent and relying on neighboring organisms for the supply of some essential metabolites. This balance of conflicting strategies affects microbial community structure and dynamics, with important implications for microbiome research and synthetic ecology. A 'gedanken experiment' to investiga...
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Genome-scale flux balance models of metabolism provide testable predictions of all metabolic rates in an organism, by assuming that the cell is optimizing a metabolic goal known as the objective function. We introduce an efficient inverse flux balance analysis (invFBA) approach, based on linear programming duality, to characterize the space of poss...
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Bivalirudin is a direct thrombin inhibitor used in the cardiac intensive care unit when heparin is contraindicated due to heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Since it is not a commonly used drug, clinical experience with its dosing is sparse. In earlier work ([1]) we developed a dynamic system model that accurately predicts the effect of bivalirudin...
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Bivalirudin is used in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and is a direct thrombin inhibitor. Since it is a rarely used drug, clinical experience with its dosing is sparse. We develop a model that predicts the effect of bivalirudin, measured by the Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT), based on its past fusion rates. We learn population-wi...
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Bivalirudin, used in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, is a direct thrombin inhibitor. Since it is a rarely used drug, clinical experience with its dosing is sparse. We develop two approaches to predict the Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT) based on bivalirudin infusion rates. The first approach is model-free and utilizes regularized...

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