Mathematical Biology Journal Club


The purpose of the journal club is to introduce beginning graduate students in Mathematical Biology to research through investigating and presenting some of the basic and classic papers in the field. We will have two groups this year: journal club for first year graduate students (JCI) which will primarily focus on classic papers; and journal club for second year graduate students (JCII) will focus on current research by local faculty.

For more information contact Brynja Kohler or Bob (B-Dawg) Guy .


Fall Semester, 2002

REGISTRATION INFO: Journal Club I for 1st year students is course 6960 section 7, class # 14627
Journal Club II for more experienced students is course 6960 section 8, class # 14628

We normally meet THURSDAYS from 3-4:30pm in LCB 322, and alternate between JCI and JCII each week.


JCI


  • September 5: D. Ludwig, D. D. Jones, C. S. Holling, Qualitative Analysis of Insect Outbreak Systems: The Spruce Budworm and Forest, Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 47, No. 1. (Feb., 1978), pp. 315-332. PDF file

    PRESENTATION BY COLBY TANNER!

  • September 19: Robert M. May, George F. Oster. Bifurcations and dynamic complexity in simple ecological models. American Naturalist. Volume 110 Issue 974. pp. 573-599. (1976) PDF file

    PRESENTATION BY JOHN ZOBITZ!

  • TUESDAY, October 1st, 2:00 pm:
    Eric L. Charnov. Optimal Foraging, the Marginal Value Theorem. Theoretical Population Biology. Volume 9, pp.129-136. (1974)
    Hassell, M. and May, R.M. Stability in insect host-parasitoid models. Journal of Animal Ecology. Volume 42, pp. 693-726. (1973) PDF file (Hassell, May)

    PRESENTATION BY WILL NESSE!

  • October 17:
    Kermack, W.O. and McKendrick, A.G. Contributions to the mathematical theory of epidemics. Royal Statistical Society Journal. 115, pp.700-721 (1927). PDF file
    Anderson, R. and May, R.M. Population biology of infectious diseases, part I. Nature 280, pp. 361-367 (1979).

    PRESENTATION BY BILL KOPPELMAN!

  • October 31:
    Mackey, M.C., Glass, L. Oscillation and Chaos in Physiological Control Systems. Science Vol. 198. pp. 287-289. (1977).
    Gurney, W.S.C., Blythe, S.P., and Nisbet, R.M. Nicholson's blowflies revisited. Nature Vol. 287. pp. 17-21. (1980).

    PRESENTATION BY SARAH CLIFFORD and AARON McDONALD!

  • November 14:
    Armstrong, R.A. and McGehee, R. Competitive Exclusion The American Naturalist. Vol. 115, No. 2. pp.151-169. (1980). PDF file

    PRESENTATION BY WILL NESSE!

  • December 5: TOPIC -- Chemical Kinetics
    Pauling, L. (1935) The oxygen equilibrium of hemoglobin and tis structural interpretation. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 21, pp.186-191. PDF file
    Monod, J, Wyman, J and Changeaux, J-P. (1965) On the nature of allosteric transitions: a plausible model. Journal of Molecular Biology. 12 pp. 88-118.
    Hill
    G. E. Briggs and J. B. S. Haldane (1925), A note on the kinetics of enzyme action, Biochem. J., 19, 339-339. (and Keener exerpt)

    PRESENTATION BY COLBY TANNER and JOHN ZOBITZ!



    JCII


  • September 12: Adler, F.R. and Kotar, M. Departure time versus departure rate: How to forage optimally when you are stupid. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 1, 411-421 (1999). PDF file

    PRESENTATION BY ROBERT (don't call me Bobby) THORN!

  • September 26: J.P. Keener. On cardiac arrhythmias: AV conduction block. J. Math. Biol., 12:215-225. 1981

    PRESENTATION BY BETHANY (hot tomatoes) BRADFIELD!

  • October 10: Fogelson AL, and Kuharsky AL. Membrane Binding-site Density Can Modulate Activation Thresholds in Enzyme Systems. J. theor. Biol. 193, pp. 1-18. (1998)

    PRESENTATION BY LIZ (da bomb) DOMAN!

  • October 24: P.C. Bressloff, J.D. Cowan, M. Goubitsky, P.J. Thomas and M.C. Wiener. Geometric visual hallucinations, Euclidean symmetry and the functional architecture of striate cortex. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B . Volume 356, pp. 299-330 (2001).

    PRESENTATION BY SHAWN (poopie) HARRISON!

  • November 7: 1) T.G. Liou, F.R. Adler, S.C. FitzSimmons, B.C. Cahill, J.R. Hibbs, and B.C. Marshall. Predictive 5-Year Survivorship Model of Cystic Fibrosis. American Journal of Epidemiology. Vol. 153, No. 4, pp.345-352. (2001).
    2) T.G. Liou, F.R. Adler, B.C. Cahill,S.C. FitzSimmons, D. Huang, J.R. Hibbs, and B.C. Marshall. Survival Effect of Lung Transplantation Among Patients with Cystic Fibrosis. Journal of the American Medical Association. Vol. 286, No. 21. pp. 2683-2689. (2001).

    PRESENTATION BY MEAGAN (twinkle-toes) McNULTY !

  • November 21:

    PRESENTATION BY IULIA (fabulous-fashion) POSIRCA !
    December 5: Classes end

    More papers if you'd like...
    AdlerGordon2002
    Fisher1937
    Kermack1932
    Leslie1945

    C.S. Peskin. Numerical analysis of blood flow in the heart. J. Comput. Phys., Volume 25, pp. 220-252. 1977.