Mathematical Biology Journal Club

Fall 2010 semester
Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30PM in LCB 322.

Date Presenter and paper
August
August 31 Organizational Meeting
September
September 7 Peter Kim
"Sniffers, buzzers, toggles and blinkers: dynamics of regulatory and signaling pathways in the cell", Tyson et al., 2003.
Student Presentations
September 14 Andrew Basinski
"Competitive exclusion", Armstrong and McGehee, 1980.
September 21 Joe Eason
"Slow recovery from perturbations as a generic indicator of a nearby catastrophic shift", Van Nes and Scheffer, 2007.
October
October 5 Anna Miller
"Population dynamics of immune responses to persistent viruses", Nowak and Bangham, 1996.
October 12 Fall Break
October 19 Kyle Gaffney
"Mathematical modeling of axoneme mechanics and fluid dynamics in ciliary and sperm motility", Dillon et al., 2003.
October 26 Laura Strube
"Immune surveillance and neoplasia—1 a minimal mathematical model", DeLisi and Rescigno, 1977.
Faculty Presentations
November
November 2 Fred Adler
"Neutral theory and relative species abundance in ecology", Volkov et al., 2003.
November 9 TBA
November 16 Dr. Keener
"The Perron-Frobenius theorem and the ranking of football teams", Keener, 1993.
November 23 TBA
November 30 Alla Borisyuk
"Temporal map formation in the barn owl’s brain", Leibold et al., 2001.
December
December 7 End of semester meeting
December 14 Finals Week


Past Journal Clubs

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002 Fall 2002
Spring 2003 Fall 2003
Spring 2004 Fall 2004
Spring 2005 Fall 2005
Spring 2006 Fall 2006
Spring 2007 Fall 2007
Spring 2008 Fall 2008
Spring 2009 Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Spring 2011 Fall 2011
Spring 2012 Fall 2012
Spring 2013 Fall 2013
Spring 2014 Fall 2014
Spring 2015 Fall 2015
Spring 2016 Fall 2016
Spring 2017 Fall 2017
Spring 2018 Fall 2018
Spring 2019 Fall 2019
Spring 2020 Fall 2020