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Frontiers in Mathematical Biology:
Young Investigators Conference

 February 29 - March 2, 2012

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions  

Wednesday, February 29

8:30 - 9:00 COFFEE
MORNING
SESSION		  
9:00 - 9:15 Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
Welcoming Remarks
9:15 - 10:15 Derek Paley (University of Maryland)
“Dynamics of collective behavior in bio-groups”
10:15 - 10:45

COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:10 Erin Byrne (Harvey Mudd College)
“Fragmentation of bacterial flocs”
11:10 - 11:35 Yanping Ma (Loyola Marymount University)
“Application of population dynamics to study heterotypic cell aggregations in the near-wall region of a shear flow”
11:35 - 12:00 Valerie Hower (University of Miami)
“Coverage statistics for sequence census methods”
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON
SESSION		  
1:30 - 2:30

Michael Shelley (The Courant Institute, New York University)
“Biological Flows and Mechanics”
2:30 - 3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:00 - 3:25 Jaydeep Bardhan (Rush University Medical Center)
“Advanced boundary-integral methods for biomolecule analysis and design”      [Slides]
3:25 - 3:50

Kehinde Salau (Arizona State University)
“Assessing the effects of institutional and landscape arrangements in analytical and computational models of conservation”
3:50 - 4:10 BREAK
4:10 - 4:35 Hoang-Ngan Nguyen (Tulane University)
“Error-reducing corrections for the method of regularized Stokeslet for fluid-membrane interactions”
4:35 - 5:00

Olivia Prosper (University of Florida)
“Impact of enhanced malaria control on the competition between Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax”
EVENING ACTIVITY
5:30 Bus leaves CSCAMM for dinner (Washington DC)

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Thursday, March 1

8:30 - 9:00 COFFEE
MORNING
SESSION		  
9:00 - 10:00 Qing Nie (University of California, Irvine)
“Noise Attenuation and Robustness in Cell Signaling and Patterning”
10:00 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:10

Svetlana Poznanovikj (Georgia Institute of Technology)
“Combinatorics, applications of combinatorial methods in molecular biology, models and prediction of RNA folding”
11:10 - 11:35 Grace Brooks (McGill University)
“Neutrophil dynamics after chemotherapy and G-CSF: the role of timing and pharmacokinetics in shaping the response”
11:35 - 12:00 William Clayton Thompson (North Carolina State University)
“Partial differential equation modeling of flow cytometry data from CFSE-based proliferation assay”     [Slides]
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON
SESSION		  
1:30 - 2:30

Leonid Berlyand (Pennsylvania State University)
“Modeling of collective swimming in bacterial suspensions”
2:30 - 3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:00 - 3:25

Cecillia Diniz Behn (Gettysburg College)
“Dynamics of sleep-wake regulation”
3:25 - 3:50

Angelean Hendrix (North Carolina State University)
“Mass action kinetics applied to ODE models of the pituitary-ovarian axis: Multiple stable periodic solutions simulate normal and acyclic clinical observations”
3:50 - 4:10 BREAK
4:10 - 4:35

Shabnam Moobed (University of California, Irvine)
“Invasive behavior of lineage-structured cell populations: The interaction of noise and feedback”
4:35 - 5:00

Martina Bukac (University of Houston)
“Capturing both radial and longitudinal displacement of viscoelastic arteries interacting with blood flow”

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Friday, March 2

8:30 - 9:15 COFFEE
MORNING
SESSION		  
9:15 - 9:40 Jessica Conway (University of British Columbia)
“Modelling acquired drug resistance in HIV+ individuals”
9:40 - 10:05

Catherine Stamoulis (Harvard Medical School)
“Mathematical models of abnormal network dynamics in the epileptic brain”
10:05 - 10:30

Georgi Kapitanov (Vanderbilt University)
“A mathematical model of cancer stem cell lineage population dynamics with mutation accumulation and telomere length hierarchies ””      [Slides]
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:00

Mary Ann Horn (NSF)
“Funding opportunities in the mathematical sciences”      [Slides]
12:00 CLOSING

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