Mathematical Biology at the University of Utah

Publications by IGERT Students

Zachary Kilpatrick

Z.P. Kilpatrick, S.E. Folias, and P.C. Bressloff, "Traveling Pulses and Wave Propagation Failure in Inhomogeneous Neural Media." SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., 7 (2008), pp. 161-185.

William Koppelman

W.J. Koppelman and F.R. Adler. "Do rhinoviruses follow the neutral theory? The role of cross-immunity in maintaining the diversity of the common cold." In Z.L. Feng, U. Dieckmann, and S.A. Levin, editors, Disease evolution: Models, concepts, and data analyses, AMS, 2005.

Karin Leiderman

Leiderman, K., Miller, L. A., and Fogelson, A. The effect of spatial inhomogeneities on flow through the endothelial surface layer. J. Theor. Bio. Feb 2008 In Press
Karin Leiderman and Stanly Steinberg, High-resolution models of motion of macromolecules in cell membranes, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation Volume 77, Issue 4, 4 April 2008, Pages 383-399.

Will Nesse

William H. Nesse, Gregory A. Clark, and Paul C. Bressloff. Spike patterning of a stochastic phase model neuron given periodic inhibition. Phys. Rev. E 75, 031912 (2007)
Rohn T.T.; Head E.; Nesse W.H.; Cotman C.W.; Cribbs D.H. Activation of Caspase-8 in the Alzheimer's Disease Brain. Neurobiology of Disease, Volume 8, Number 6, December 2001 , pp. 1006-1016(11)

Amber Smith

Julie L. McAuley, Felicita Hornung, Kelli L. Boyd, Amber M. Smith, Raelene McKeon, Jack Bennink, Jonathan W. Yewdell, and Jonathan A. McCullers "Expression of the 1918 Influenza A Virus PB1-F2 Enhances the Pathogenesis of Viral and Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia"Cell Host & Microbe, 2007, 2(4).

Nessy Tania

A. L. Fogelson and N.Tania "Coagulation under Flow; The influence of flow mediated transport on the initiation and inhibition of coagulation" Pathophysiol. Haemost. Thromb. 2005, 34, 94-108.
I. Wang, A.Z. Politi, N. Tania, Y. Bai, M. Sanderson and J. Sneyd. A mathematical model of airway and pulmonary arteriole smooth muscle. Biophys. J. (94)2053-3064, 2008.

John Zobitz

J. M. Zobitz, S. P. Burns, J. Ogee, M. Reichstein, D. R. Bowling "Partitioning net ecosystem exchange of CO2: A comparison of Bayesian/isotope approach to environmental regression methods"Journal of Geophysical Research, 112:G03013, 2007.

Pataki, D. E., D. R. Bowling, J. R. Ehleringer, and J. M. Zobitz "High resolution atmospheric monitoring of urban carbon dioxide sources" Geophys. Res. Lett., 2006, 33, L03813, doi:10.1029/2005GL024822.

J. M. Zobitz, J. P. Keener, H. Schnyder, D. R. Bowling "Analysis and quantification of uncertainty for isotopic mixing relationships in carbon cycle research" Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 136:56-75, 2006.


Publications by RTG Students

Berton Earnshaw

P. C. Bressloff, B. A. Earnshaw
"Diffusion-trapping model of receptor trafficking in dendrites"
Phys. Rev. E, 75, 2007.

P. C. Bressloff, B. A. Earnshaw
"Diffusion-trapping model of protein trafficking in neurons"
Phys. Rev. E, 75, 2007.

B. A. Earnshaw and P. C. Bressloff
"Biophysical model of AMPA receptor trafficking and its regulation during long-term potentiation/long-term depression"
J. Neurosci. 2006, 26, 12362-12373.

Meagan McNulty

M. C. McNulty, F. R. Adler, T. G. Liou
"A mathematical model of airway inflammation in cystic fibrosis"
In American Thoracic Society, San Diego, 2005.

M. C. McNulty, F. R. Adler, T. G. Liou
"A mathematical model of chronic airway inflammation"
Pediatric Pulmonology, 40:230, 2005.

Elijah Newren

E. P. Newren, A. L. Fogelson, R. D. Guy, R. M. Kirby
"A comparison of implicit solvers for the Immersed Boundary equations"
Comp. Meth. App. Mech. Eng., submitted, 2007.

E. P. Newren, A. L. Fogelson, R. D. Guy, R. M. Kirby
"Unconditionally stable discretizations of the Immersed Boundary equations"
Journal of Computational Physics, 222:702-719, 2007.

Andrew Oster

A. M. Oster and P. C. Bressloff
"A developmental model of ocular dominance column formation on a growing cortex."
Bull. Math. Biol., 68:73-98, 2006.

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