Mathematical Biology Seminar
Mathematical Biology Lunch Meetings
Math Bio Group News | Events | Invited Colloquium Speakers
The Mathematical Biology Seminar is held every Monday between 3:30-4:20 PM in 221 MLH (Fall 2009)
Math Bio Lunch is held every Thursday between 12:30-1:20 PM in B11 MLH (Fall 2009)
Math Bio Group News 9/2009
Professor Bruce Ayati and graduate student Jason Graham are co-authors of the paper "A Spatial Model of Tumor-Host Interaction: Application of Chemotherapy" that made the front cover of the issue Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 6(3), 2009.
Professor Bruce Ayati has been awarded the NSF DMS-0914514 grant Applied Numerical Mathematics of Structured Multiscale Models of Biological Systems.
7-8/2009
Graduate students Jason Graham and Wela Yong participated in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute summer program Mathematical Ecology and Evolution, Columbus OH, July 27-August 14, 2009
6/2009
Graduate student Candice Price attended the conference From DNA-Inspired Physics to Physics-Inspired Biology, Trieste, Italy, June 1 - 5, 2009
5/2009
Graduate students Soojeong Kim, Hyeyoung Moon and Candice Price participated in the International Centre for Theoretical Physics summer program Advanced School & Conference on Knot theory and its Applications to Physics and Biology, Trieste, Italy, May 11-31, 2009
3/2009
Our mathematical biology group has been featured in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute Newsletter 4 (2), pages 8-9
8/2008
Professor Isabel Darcy has been awarded the NSF grant Collaborative Research: Energetics of DNA Tangling in Complex Nucleoprotein Assemblies ($1.9 million over 5 years). Her collaborator is Steve Levene from University of Texas at Dallas.
Events 2009 Second UIowa Microconference on Mathematical Biology (Topic: Mathematical Neuroscience)
Guest speaker: David Terman (Ohio State University) - 11/12/2009
Title: Mathematical modeling issues related to Parkinson's disease
2009 First UIowa Microconference on Mathematical Biology (Topic: Mathematical Cardiology and Cell Biology)
Guest speaker: Greg Smith (Department of Applied Sciences, The College of William and Mary, VA) - 11/2/2009
Title: Modeling the stochastic dynamics of localized calcium elevations and whole cell calcium responses
2009 Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series
Martin Golubitsky (Ohio State University and The Mathematical Biosciences Institute) - 3/4/2009, 3/5/2009, 3/6/2009
Titles: (1) Symmetry Breaking and Synchrony Breaking; (2) Bifurcations and Dynamics on Networks; (3) Geometric Visual Hallucinations
2007 Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series
James Keener (University of Utah) - 11/28/2007, 11/29/2007, 11/30/2007
Titles: (1) Arrhythmias by Dimension; (2) How cells make measurements; (3) Modelling Stochastic Calcium Oscillations
Invited Colloquium Speakers/ Seminar Speakers/ Visitors 2009
Bob McMurray (Department of Psychology; University of Iowa) - 11/16/2009
Title: What can we learn from models of language processes (that we couldn't learn from behavior)?
Anastasios Matzavinos (Iowa State University) - 10/22/2009
Title: Spectral clustering methods in data processing and image analysis
Steven J. Smith (Truman State University, MO) - 4/6/2009
Title: Optimal Control and the Harvesting of a Continuous Age-Structured Population
2008
Paul Abbas (Speech Pathology and Audiology; University of Iowa) - 12/1/2008
Title: Modeling of responses of the auditory nerve to electrical stimulation: Applications to cochlear implants
Tom Rutkowski (Anatomy and Cell Biology; University of Iowa) - 11/3/2008
Title: Cellular integration of stress response pathways: a matter of life and death
Roman Borisyuk (University of Plymouth, UK) - 5/8/2008
Title: Partial synchronization of neural activity and modelling of visual perception and attention
Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee) - 4/1/2008
Title: Rabies in Raccoons: Optimal Control for a Discrete Time Model on a Spatial Grid
Samuel Isaacson (University of Utah) - 2/14/2008
Title: Mathematical Problems From Molecular Cell Biology
Pranay Goel (Laboratory of Biological Modeling; NIDDK, NIH) - 2/12/2008
Title: Diabetes and dynamics: The mathematical physiology of beta-cells and the Islets of Langerhans
Yongcheng Zhou (University of California, San Diego) - 2/8/2008
Title: Continuum modeling of macromolecular electrostatics and conformal change: mathematical analysis
Paula Budu-Grajdeanu (Ohio State University) - 2/6/2008
Title: The LifeLine-Vascular Access for Hemodialysis
2007
Pranay Goel (Laboratory of Biological Modeling; NIDDK, NIH) - 12/6/2007
Title: Microdomains in the cell: how calcium mediates stimulus-function coupling in excitable tissues. A multiscale approach
Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State University) - 12/6/2007
Title: Disease Dynamics and Evolution: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
