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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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