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Mathematical Biology Journal Club

Fall 2005 semester
Wednesdays after the MathBio Seminar (4pm ish) in LCB 322
Journal Club Guidelines

Wednesday
August 31

JC I: Karin Leiderman

Paliwal, Ma, Krishnan, Levchenko, and Iglesias
"Responding to Directional Cues: A Tale of Two Cells"
IEEE Control Systems Magazine,(August 2004),pp. 77-90.

Wednesday
September 7

JC II: Berton Earnshaw

Shouval, Bear, and Cooper
"A unified model of NMDA receptor-dependent bidirectional synaptic plasticity"
PNAS,(August 6, 2002), vol 99, no. 16, pp. 10831-10836.
(Link to PDF)

Shouval, Castellani, Blais, Yeung and Cooper
"Converging evidence for a simplified biophysical model of synaptic plasticity"
Biol. Cybern.,(2002), vol 87, pp. 383-391.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
September 14

JC I: Zachary Kilpatrick

Hodgkin and Huxley
"A Quantitative Description of Membrane Current and its Application to Conduction and Excitation in Nerve"
Journal of Physiology, vol 117, pp. 500-544.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
September 21

JC II: Ben Murphy

Bialek and Setayeshgar
"Physical limits to biochemical signaling"
PNAS, vol 102, no 29, pp. 10040-10045.
(Link to PDF)

Supplemental Material:

Berg and Purcell
"Physics of Chemoreception"
Biophysical Journal(1977), vol 20, pp. 193-219.
(Link to PDF)

Link to Description of Chemotaxis

Wednesday
September 28

JC I: Noelle Conforti

Bell
"Predator-prey equations simulating an immune response"
Mathematical Biosciences, vol 16, pp. 291-314.
(Link to Journal)

Wednesday
October 5

JC II: Geoffrey Hunter

Longtin, Milton, Bos, and Mackey
"Noise and critical behavior of the pupil light reflex at oscillation onset"
Phys. Rev. A(1990), vol 41, pp. 6992-7005.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
October 12

JC I: Julian Chan

Killingback and Doebeli
"Spatial evolutionary game theory: Hawks and Doves revisited"
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (1996), vol 263, pp. 1135-1144.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
October 19

JC II:Giao Huynh

Kot and Schaffer
"Discrete-Time Growth-Dispersal Models"
Mathematical Biosciences (1986), vol 80, pp. 109-136.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
October 26

JC I: Dane Maxfield

Charnov
"Optimal Foraging, the Marginal Value Theorem"
Theoretical Population Biology, vol 9, pp. 129-136.
(Link to Journal)

Wednesday
November 2

JC II: Lindsay Crowl

Goldsztein
"Transport of Nutrients in Bones"
SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, vol 65, no 9, pp. 2128-2140.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
November 9

JC I: Blerta Shtylla

Purcell
"Life at Low Reynolds number"
Americal Hournal of Physics, vol 45, no 1, pp. 3-11.
(Link to HTML version)(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
November 16

JC II: Molly Kelton

Chesson and Warner
"Environmental Variability Promotes Coexistence in Lottery Competitive Systems"
The American Naturalist (June, 1981), vol 117, no 6, pp. 923-943.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
November 30

JC I: Mike

Kimura
"On the probability of fixation of mutant genes in a population"
Genetics, vol 47, pp. 713-719.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
December 7

JC I: Sean Laverty

Ludwig, Jones, and Holling
"Qualitative Analysis of Insect Outbreak Systems: The Spruce Budworm and Forest"
Journal of Animal Ecology, vol 47, no 1, pp. 315-322.
(Link to PDF)


Past Math Biology Journal Clubs:

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002

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Fall 2003

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