FOR STUDENT PARTICIPANTS:
The student group projects can be chosen from the project suggestions found in the book Modeling and Simulation in Medicine and the Life Sciences by Frank C. Hoppensteadt and Charles S. Peskin. There is a copy of this book in our Library, and Karin also has a copy in her office.
Details and terminology mentioned in the projects can be found in chapters 1-5 of the text, as well as in lectures given on Monday and Tuesday before the workshop. All matlab code can be found here. Please use the projects as suggestions and feel free to focus on related issues that interest you (and would make exciting presentations!). We ask you to work in groups of two or three people, and to let us know which projects you plan to work on in advance, so there is little to no overlap. However, some projects (1 or 3) could be separated into more than one project direction. One possible way to extend these project ideas would be to find recent papers published in the field and present more up-to-date information.

• Project 1 - Modeling the circulation of the systemic arteries, and adapting matlab code to model whole circulation. This project has applications to fetal circulation and congenital heart diseases.
• Project 2 - Modeling oxygen transport by the lungs. This project involves altering matlab code in order to do a short bifurcation analysis, and has applications to what happens at high altitude or when you exercise, and anemia.
• Project 3 - Modeling neuron excitation and action potentials with different types of stimuli. This project has applications to (1) rods and cones in the eye, (2) hair in the inner ear, (3) Pacinian corpuscle in the skin. (This project could potentially branch into three distinct projects.)
• Project 4 - Modeling interacting nephron population. This project shows ways to numerically evaluate a crazy looking integral that arises when studying the length of the loop of Henle in renal physiology.
• Project 5 - Modeling muscle motion by stochastically stimulating the crossbridge dynamics of sarcomeres. Applications include studying how muscles contract.
• Alternative Option - The other option for project presentations (geared more towards second year+ students) is to give a talk about your own research during the workshop. Charlie Peskin is very excited to hear about our group's diverse interests. (It's prefectly acceptable to present work in progress!)