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Natasa Miskov-Zivanov

Assistant Professor
@MeLoDyLabPGH Natasa Miskov-Zivanov YouTube Natasa Miskov-Zivanov Electrical and Computer Engineering Bioengineering Department

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PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009

MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Novi Sad, 2003

Ahmed, Y., Telmer, C.A., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2021). CLARINET: efficient learning of dynamic network models from literature. Bioinform Adv, 1(1), vbab006.Oxford University Press (OUP). doi: 10.1093/bioadv/vbab006.

Holtzapple, E., Telmer, C.A., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2020). FLUTE: Fast and reliable knowledge retrieval from biomedical literature. DATABASE-THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL DATABASES AND CURATION, 2020.Oxford University Press (OUP). doi: 10.1093/database/baaa056.

Kvorjak, M., Ahmed, Y., Miller, M.L., Sriram, R., Coronnello, C., Hashash, J.G., Hartman, D.J., Telmer, C.A., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Finn, O.J., & Cascio, S. (2020). Cross-talk between Colon Cells and Macrophages Increases ST6GALNAC1 and MUC1-sTn Expression in Ulcerative Colitis and Colitis-Associated Colon Cancer. CANCER IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH, 8(2), 167-178.American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-19-0514.

Sayed, K., Bocan, K.N., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2018). Automated Extension of Cell Signaling Models with Genetic Algorithm. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2018, 5030-5033.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513431.

Hawse, W.F., Sheehan, R.P., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Menk, A.V., Kane, L.P., Faeder, J.R., & Morel, P.A. (2015). Cutting Edge: Differential Regulation of PTEN by TCR, Akt, and FoxO1 Controls CD4+ T Cell Fate Decisions. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, 194(10), 4615-4619.The American Association of Immunologists. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1402554.

Morel, P.A., Faeder, J.R., Hawse, W.F., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2014). Modeling the T cell immune response: a fascinating challenge. JOURNAL OF PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS, 41(5), 401-413.Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1007/s10928-014-9376-y.

Bleris, L., Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Myers, C.J. (2013). IWBDA 2012 Special Issue. ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, 2(5), 203.American Chemical Society (ACS). doi: 10.1021/sb400042a.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Turner, M.S., Kane, L.P., Morel, P.A., & Faeder, J.R. (2013). The Duration of T Cell Stimulation Is a Critical Determinant of Cell Fate and Plasticity. SCIENCE SIGNALING, 6(300), ra97.American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). doi: 10.1126/scisignal.2004217.

Vodovotz, Y., Azhar, N., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Buliga, M., Zamora, R., Ermentrout, B., Constantine, G.M., Faeder, J.R., Pakpour, N., & Luckhart, S. (2013). Modeling Host–Vector–Pathogen Immuno-inflammatory Interactions in Malaria. In Complex Systems and Computational Biology Approaches to Acute Inflammation. 9781461480082, (pp. 265-279).Springer New York. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8008-2_14.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Bresticker, A., Krishnaswamy, D., Venkatakrishnan, S., Kashinkunti, P., Marculescu, D., & Faeder, J.R. (2011). Regulatory network analysis acceleration with reconfigurable hardware. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2011, 149-152.IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6089916.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2010). Multiple Transient Faults in Combinational and Sequential Circuits: A Systematic Approach. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, 29(10), 1614-1627.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2010.2061131.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2008). Modeling and optimization for soft-error reliability of sequential circuits. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, 27(5), 803-816.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2008.917591.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2006). Circuit Reliability Analysis Using Symbolic Techniques. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 25(12), 2638-2649.Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). doi: 10.1109/tcad.2006.882592.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2006). Circuit reliability analysis using symbolic techniques. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, 25(12), 2638-2649. doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2006.882592.

Holzapple, E., Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Cochran, B. (2021). A DYNAMIC CAUSAL MODEL OF GLIOBLASTOMA STEM CELL SIGNALING PREDICTS EFFECTS OF KINASE INHIBITORS. In NEURO-ONCOLOGY, 23, (pp. 35-36).

Becker, E.W., Bocan, K.N., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2020). Nested Event Representation for Automated Assembly of Cell Signaling Network Models. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 12233 LNCS, (pp. 480-499).Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-54997-8_30.

Cascio, S., Kvorjak, M., Ahmed, Y., Miller, M., Al Hashash, J., Hartman, D., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Telmer, C., & Finn, O.J. (2019). The cross-talk between infiltrating macrophages and inflamed or malignant colonic epithelium promotes overexpression of ST6GALNAC1 and epithelial MUC1 tumor form MUC1-sTn. In JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, 202(1).

Gilboy, K., Sayed, K., Sundaram, N., Bocan, K.N., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2019). A Faster DiSH: Hardware Implementation of a Discrete Cell Signaling Simulator. In Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2019, (pp. 2895-2899).IEEE.United States. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2019.8857495.

Telmer, C.A., Sayed, K., Butchy, A., Bocan, K.N., Holtzapple, E., Hansen, C.E., Zhou, G., Ahmed, Y., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2019). Dynamic system explanation. In Proceedings of the Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse.ACM. doi: 10.1145/3359115.3359123.

Holtzapple, E., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Jahan, K., Zhang, Y., Young, S., & Cochran, B. (2018). COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF GLIOBLASTOMA STEM CELL SIGNALING NETWORKS. In NEURO-ONCOLOGY, 20, (p. 45).

Sayed, K., Telmer, C.A., Butchy, A.A., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2018). Recipes for Translating Big Data Machine Reading to Executable Cellular Signaling Models. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10710 LNCS, (pp. 1-15).Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-72926-8_1.

Zhou, G., Liang, K.W., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2018). Sensitivity Analysis of Discrete Models and Application in Biological Networks. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, (pp. 605-606).ACM. doi: 10.1145/3233547.3233694.

Butchy, A.A., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2017). Discrete modeling of macrophage differentiation. In JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, 198(1).

Liang, K.W., Wang, Q., Telmer, C., Ravichandran, D., Spirtes, P., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2017). Methods to Expand Cell Signaling Models Using Automated Reading and Model Checking. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10545 LNBI, (pp. 145-159).Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67471-1_9.

Sayed, K., Kuo, Y.H., Kulkarni, A., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2017). DiSH simulator: Capturing dynamics of cellular signaling with heterogeneous knowledge. In 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), (pp. 896-907).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/wsc.2017.8247841.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Zuliani, P., Wang, Q., Clarke, E.M., & Faeder, J.R. (2016). High-level modeling and verification of cellular signaling. In 2016 IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT), (pp. 162-169).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/hldvt.2016.7748271.

Sayed, K., Telmer, C.A., & Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2016). Motif modeling for cell signaling networks. In 2016 8th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC), (pp. 114-117).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/cibec.2016.7836133.

Wang, Q., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Liu, B., Faeder, J.R., Lotze, M., & Clarke, E.M. (2016). Formal Modeling and Analysis of Pancreatic Cancer Microenvironment. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9859 LNCS, (pp. 289-305).Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-45177-0_18.

Miskov-Zivanov, N. (2015). Automation of Biological Model Learning, Design and Analysis. In Proceedings of the 25th edition on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 20-22-May-2015, (pp. 327-329).ACM. doi: 10.1145/2742060.2743765.

Wang, Q., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Telmer, C., & Clarke, E.M. (2015). Formal Analysis Provides Parameters for Guiding Hyperoxidation in Bacteria using Phototoxic Proteins. In Proceedings of the 25th edition on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 20-22-May-2015, (pp. 315-320).ACM. doi: 10.1145/2742060.2743762.

Hawse, W., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Faeder, J., & Morel, P. (2014). PTEN regulates CD4+T cell differentiation. In JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, 192.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Hawse, W., Morel, P., & Faeder, J. (2014). Interplay of phosphorylation kinetics and methylation dynamics leads to complex behavior of Foxp3 and PTEN in computational model of T cell differentiation. In JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, 192.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Wei, P., & Loh, C.S.C. (2014). THiMED: Time in Hierarchical Model Extraction and Design. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8859, (pp. 260-263).Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-12982-2_22.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Marculescu, D., & Faeder, J.R. (2013). Dynamic behavior of cell signaling networks. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Design Automation Conference.ACM. doi: 10.1145/2463209.2488743.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Zuliani, P., Clarke, E.M., & Faeder, J.R. (2013). Studies of biological networks with statistical model checking. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, (pp. 728-729).ACM. doi: 10.1145/2506583.2512390.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Faeder, J.R., Myers, C.J., & Sauro, H.M. (2012). Modeling and design automation of biological circuits and systems. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, (pp. 291-293).ACM. doi: 10.1145/2429384.2429444.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Bresticker, A., Krishnaswamy, D., Venkatakrishnan, S., Marculescu, D., & Faeder, J.R. (2011). Emulation of biological networks in reconfigurable hardware. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine, (pp. 536-540).ACM. doi: 10.1145/2147805.2147893.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2010). Formal modeling and reasoning for reliability analysis. In Proceedings of the 47th Design Automation Conference, (pp. 531-536).ACM. doi: 10.1145/1837274.1837406.

Sekar, J., Miskov-Zivanov, N., Turner, M., Morel, P., & Faeder, J. (2010). Modeling the Role of Antigen Stimulation in Treg vs. Teff Fate Selection. In JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY, 184.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2009). A systematic approach to modeling and analysis of transient faults in logic circuits. In 2009 10th International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design, (pp. 408-413).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/isqed.2009.4810329.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., Wu, K.C., & Marculescu, D. (2008). Process variability-aware transient fault modeling and analysis. In 2008 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, (pp. 685-690).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/iccad.2008.4681651.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2007). MARS-S: Modeling and Reduction of Soft Errors in Sequential Circuits. In 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07), (pp. 893-898).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/isqed.2007.100.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2007). Soft Error Rate Analysis for Sequential Circuits. In 2007 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, (pp. 1436-1441).IEEE. doi: 10.1109/date.2007.364500.

Miskov-Zivanov, N., & Marculescu, D. (2006). MARS-C. In Proceedings of the 43rd annual conference on Design automation - DAC '06, (pp. 767-772).ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/1146909.1147104.

Research interests

Automated Information Retrieval
Complex System Modeling
Knowledge Representation
Synthetic Biology
Systems Biology