DETAILED SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Note that for all presentations only the presenters name is
listed. For listings of any co-authors, see the abstract.
Friday July
12, 2002
Short Course
"Introduction to the Mathematics of Biological Complexity"
8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-6:00 Lectures and Workshop Sessions
Lecturers: Holly Gaff, Louis Gross, Suzanne Lenhart, Jason Wolf
Saturday
July 13, 2002
8:00-8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Welcome and Introductions (413 A,B)
Lou Gross
9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk (413 A,B)
Roger Nisbet
How useful
for ecologists are simple population models?
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:30: Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium: Structured Population and Community Modeling and
Ecotoxicology in Honor of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday - Session 1 (413
A,B)
(Linda Allen, organizer)
10:15-10:45 S. A. L. M. Kooijman.
Quantitative
steps in symbiogenesis and the evolution of homeostasis
10:45-11:15 Stephen Ellner
Fitting
population dynamic models to doubly-noisy data: methods and insects
11:15-11:45 Alan Hastings
Mathematical
models used to understand a Spartina invasion
11:45-12:15 Mark Kot
Of Pests,
Weeds, and Ph.D.s: Models for Invading
Organisms
Contributed session - Cell and molecular biology (406)
(Gerda de Vries , Chair)
10:15-10:30 Gerda de Vries
Determining
the mobility of actin proteins in the cell nucleus with a compartmental model
10:30-10:45 Robert Finkel
Life as a
quantum state: some implications for quantitative biology
10:45-11:00 Robert Guy
A
Probabilistic Model of Platelet Aggregation
11:00-11:15 Nikos Mantzaris
Effects of Population Heterogeneity on the Dynamics of Cell Populations
11:15-11:30 Joseph Oliveira
A Novel Combinatorial Model of Cellular Regulatory Networks
11:30-11:45 Robert Smith
A
Size-Structured Model for the Nutrient-Driven Self-Cycling Fermentation Process
11:45-12:00 Stephen Turner
From a discrete to a continuous model of biological cell aggregation
12:00-12:15 Ping Ye
Re-evaluation
of T Cell Receptor Excision Circles as a Measure of Human Recent Thymic
Emigrants
12:15-12:30 Eugenia Corvera-Poire
Viscous Fingers in Frequency Dependent
Situations
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Plenary talk (413A,B)
Michael I. Miller
Computational
anatomy: an emerging discipline
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-5:15 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium: Education in Mathematical Biology
(413A,B)
(John Jungck, organizer)
2:45-3:15 Janet Anderson
An
Interdisciplinary Course for Biology and Mathematics Majors
3:15-3:45 Jennifer Foss
Back to
Basics: Linear Dynamics for Biology
Majors
3:45-4:15 Meghan Burke
Undergraduate
Applied Mathematics Projects in a Biology Context
4:15-4:45 Jorge Velasco-Hernandez
Strategies and approaches on the teaching of mathematics to
biology majors at UAM-Iztapalapa Mexico
4:45-5:15 Suzanne Lenhart
Undergraduate
Research in Math Biology at the University of Tennessee
Contributed session - Medical Biology (406)
(Hem Raj Joshi, Chair)
2:45-3:00 Rebecca Culshaw
Optimal Control of Therapy for HIV Based on Maximising Immune
Response
3:00-3:15 Scott Duke-Sylvester
Optimal
spatial control of antibiotic resistance in Tuberculosis
3:15-3:30 Zeinab Elsady.
Mathematical Study of Some Immune System Response Models
3:30-3:45 Hem Raj Joshi.
Optimal Control of an HIV Immunology Model
3:45-4:00 John Carl Panetta
A Mechanistic Mathematical Model of Temozolomide
Myelosuppression in Children with
High-Grade Gliomas
4:00-4:15 Seema Bajaria
Structured Treatment Interruptions during HAART: Looking
Beyond the Limit
4:15-4:30 Arnold Mitniski
Modeling of aging: In the search of state variable(s)
4:45-5:15 Set-up of posters
5:15-7:30 Poster Session and Reception
Presenters
with odd numbers are requested to be at their posters from 5:15 – 6:30, and
presenters with even numbered posters at theirs from 6:30 – 7:30
Music during
the reception provided by Evan Carawan, traditional music of Appalachia
performed on the hammered dulcimer.
7:30-8:00 Gene Bruce (406)
QEIB, ITR and
other math biology opportunities at NSF: a question and answer session.
7:30 - ? Informal musical jam - bring a musical
instrument, share songs, or stories
Poster Presentations:
1. Amit Chakraborty. Spatio-Temporal and long
term Mathematical Models on Methane Emission from rice fields
2.
Doug Lorenz. Antibiotic Resistance in the Intensive Care Unit: Rotation of Antibiotics, and the Outcome of
a Clinical Trial
3.
Megan Waier. A differential equation model of a smallpox outbreak.
4. Khalid Boushaba. Dynamics of the 'echo' bloom in a plankton system with
nitrogen fixation
5. Daniel Coombs, Daniel The
Roles of Serial Engagement and Kinetic Proofreading in Peptide-Induced
T-Cell Activation
6. Tomas de-Camino-Beck.
Modeling Biological Control of Scentless Chamomile Using a Optimization on a
Coupled
Map Lattice
7. Sara
Pinto Garcia. A Predictive Dynamical Model for the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
8. Estella Gilbert. Predicting Phenological Events for Temperature Dependent Insects,
Given Both Environmental and Phenological Variation
9.
Robert D. Guy. A Continuum
Approach to Modeling Platelet Aggregation
10.
Richard J. Hall.
Invasion of fungicide resistance is determined by a trade-off between fungicide
efficacy and relative fitness
13.Garrick T.
Skalski. A diffusion-based theory of organism dispersal in heterogeneous
populations
14.
Charles E. Smith. Model Order
Reduction in Compartmental Models of Skin Transport
15. Steven Viscido. Aggregation
from models of fish movement
17.
Colleen Mitchell. A Two-Current Model for the Dynamics of Cardiac Membrane
18.
Brian Baxter. Sustainability of Surface Water Transport of Goods: An Ecological
Economic Investigation of Systems and Policy Implications
19.
Justin Heavilin. The Red Top
Model: A Model of Mountain Pine Beetle Pressure on a Lodgepole Pine Forest
Sunday July
14, 2002
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Plenary talk (413 A,B)
Sally Blower
Predicting
the unpredictable: the transmission of drug resistant HIV
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium: Infectious Diseases and the Evolution of Drug Resistance
(413A,B)
(Sally Blower, organizer)
10:15-10:45 Tom Lietman
Can we predict antibiotic resistance in trachoma programs?
10:45-11:15 Patrick Nelson
Recent
advances in modeling HIV-1 using delay differential equations and
Age-structured PDE’s
11:15-11:45 Jorge Velasco-Hernandez
11:45-12:15 Tom Chou
Drug-induced
amplification of resistant tuberculosis strains
12:15-12:45 Travis Porco
Contributed session - Ecology (Session 1)
(406)
(Maria Siopsis, Chair)
10:15-10:30 Janet Best
10:30-10:45 Philip Crowley
Overgrowth
competition, fragmentation, and a sub-individual-based model of sex-ratio
dynamics
10:45-11:00
Zachary Franco
On the
Computation of Period three windows of the Logistic Map
11:00-11:15 Glenn Ledder
Dynamic
energy budget models with predation
11:15-11:30 Matthew Miller
Geometric
analysis of flocking behavior
11:30-11:45
J. M.
Tchuenche
Functional differential equation: a population model
11:45-12:00 Arild Wilkin
12:00-12:15 Luis Olivares-Quiroz
Complex dynamics in regular and small-world network
architectures
12:30-2:30 Lunch and concurrent SMB Board Meeting
2:30-8:00 Tour of Museum of Appalachia or open
afternoon.
4:00-6:30
Reception in honor of Tom Hallam, hosted by the Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Mathematics, University of
Tennessee (University Club, Neyland Drive and Kingston Pike)
Monday July
15, 2002
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:30 Plenary talk (413 A,B)
Lisa Fauci
Integrative models of swimming organisms
9:30-9:45 Coffee Break
9:45-12:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium: Computational Biofluid Dynamics
(406)
(Eunok Jung, organizer)
9:45-10:15 Mansoor Haider
A Time-Marching
Boundary Element Method for Standard Linear Viscoelasticity
10:15-10:45 Edward Givelberg
Some Results of Human Cochlea Simulation Using the Immersed
Boundary Method
10:45-11:15 Charles Babbs
Valveless Pumping Explained in Terms of Reflected Pressure Waves
11:15-11:45 Aaron Fogelson
Computational
Challenges in Modeling Blood Clotting
11:45-12:15 David M. McQueen
Three-Dimensional
Computer Models of the Human Heart for Studying Cardiac Fluid Dynamics
Minisymposium: Structured Population and Community Modeling and
Ecotoxicology in Honor of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday - Session 2
(413A,B)
(Linda Allen, organizer)
9:45-10:15 Jim Cushing
Non-equilibrium competition
10:15-10:45 Shandelle Henson
Predicting
abundance and habitat usage of marine birds with low dimensional mechanistic
models
10:45-11:15 Azmy Ackleh
Competitive
Exclusion and Coexistence for Pathogens in an Epidemic Model with Variable
Population Size
11:15-11:45 Linda Allen
Some Factors
Affecting Coexistence of Multiple Pathogen Strains Within a Host Population
11:45-12:00 Carole Hom
An RTG and
IGERT at UCD: some ABC’s of interdisciplinary training
Contributed session - Evolutionary Biology
(417)
(Frans Jacobs, Chair)
9:45-10:00 Rob De Boer.
MHC Polymorphism by heterozygote advantage
10:00-10:15 Jane Marie Heffernan
The Role of
Mutation and Genetic Drift in Experimental Evolution
10:15-10:30 D. Nicholas McLetchie
Local Sex-Ratio Dynamics: a
Model for the Dioecious Liverwort Marchantia
inflexa
10:30-10:45 Jason G. Mezey
Comparing G Matrices: Interpreting Results Of A Common Principal Components (CPC) Analysis
10:45-11:00 Judith R. Miller
Modeling the distribution of average QTL effect sizes in a haploid population under drift and selection, a preliminary report
11:00-11:15 Paul Schliekelman
Natural selection on alleles conferring resistance to HIV/AIDS
in African populations
11:15-11:30
William Seffens
Graph Theory and Combinatorics in the Genetic Codes from Diverse Organisms
11:30-11:45 Gisela García-Ramos
Evolutionary speed of species
invasions
12:00-1:30 Lunch - concurrent with Careers Lunch for
graduate students and post-docs
Careers Lunch (sponsored by CPS Innovations, Inc.)
Maurizio Conti (CPS Innovations) PET: a growing, exciting modality
for medical imaging
Frank Tobin (GlaxoSmithKline) Computational and mathematical
biology opportunities at GSK
Gene Bruce (National Science Foundation) Opportunities for new
researchers available at NSF
1:30-2:30 Plenary Talk (413A,B)
Simon Tavaré
Inference from the fossil record: when was the last common
ancestor of extant primates?
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-6:30 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium on Evolutionary Theory (413
A,B)
(Warren Ewens and Sergey
Gavrilets, organizers)
2:45-3:15 Paul Joyce
Likelihood,
Simulation and Evaluation of a Class on Non-Neutral Models with Selection
3:15-3:45 Stephen Krone
Stochastic
Demography and Coalescent Theory
3:45-4:15 Bruce Rannala
Bayesian
Inference of Recent Migration Rates Using Multilocus Genotypes
4:15-4:45 Break
4:45-5:15 Michael Lynch
The Origin of
Genomic Complexity by Random Genetic Drift
5:15-5:45 John Wakeley
Genetic drift
backwards and forwards in a structured population
5:45-6:15 Sergey Gavrilets
Dynamics of
speciation in a metapopulation
Contributed session - Physiology and Neurobiology
(417)
(Sharon Lubkin, Chair)
2:45-3:00 Eric Cytrynbaum
Aggregation
and centering in fish melanophore cells - a quantitative exploration of
cytoskeletal dynamics
3:00-3:15 William Wolesensky
Digestion
Modulation in Simple Animal Tracts
3:15-3:30 Sharon Lubkin
Multiphase
fluid mechanics in branching morphogenesis: cleaving between hypotheses
3:30-3:45 Colleen Mitchell
Mathematical
Properies of Timing in Neural Systems
3:45-4:00 Mitsuo Takase
Similarity
between Hierarchical Neural Networks and Adaptive Immune System in Memorization
and Remembrance from Dynamical Systems
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-4:30 Duane Q. Nykamp
Reconstructing
stimulus-driven neural networks from spike times
4:30-4:45 Brad Peercy
A Model of
Ischemic Border Zone Arrhythmias in Cardiac Tissue
4:45-5:00 Sook Kyung Lim
Computer
simulation of the whirling instability by the immersed boundary method
5:00-5:15 D. W. Verzi
Modeling structural changes in dendritic spines
Contributed session - Biological Modeling - contributions in honor
of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday (406)
(Graciela Canziani, Chair)
2:45-3:00 Graciela Canziani
Including
Habitat Quality and Density-dependent Migration in Spatially Explicit
Metapopulation Models
3:00-3:15 Michael Neubert
Two-sex invasions
3:15-3:45 Pavel Kindlmann
Why are insect predators so inefficient in biocontrol? The
importance of age-structure..
3:45-4:15 Kenneth Dixon
A model of
individual exposure to contaminants using multidimensional structure arrays
4:15-4:30 Break
4:30-4:45 Holly Gaff
Evaluation
of and insights from ALFISH: a spatially-explicit, landscape-level simulation
of fish populations in the Everglades
4:45-5:00
Eric Carr
Spatial modeling to evaluate the effects of habitat
loss on mammal populations in tallgrass prairie
5:00-5:15 Maria Siopsis
A model for Pseudo-Nitzschia multiseries, a toxic
algae species
5:15-5:30 René Salinas
Optimal
Harvesting of a Metapopulation Model for Black Bears in the Southern
Appalachians
5:30-5:45
Renee Fister
Optimal Control of an Immunotherapy System
7:00 Conference
Banquet – Hilton Hotel
Mark Lewis, SMB President
Banquet Speaker: Avner Friedman
Tuesday July
16, 2002
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk (413 A,B)
Lee Segel
Controlling
neurotransmitter release
10:00-10:30 Open Meeting of the SMB (413
A,B)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-1:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium on Cancer Modeling (413 A,B)
(Robert Gatenby, organizer)
10:45-11:15 Howard Levine
A model for
tumor angiogenesis based on stromal
stem cell response to tumor secreted growth factor (preliminary report)
11:15-11:45 Timothy
Secomb
Simulations
of oxygen transport to tumors by three-dimensional networks of microvessels
11:45-12:15 Robert A. Gatenby
The cause and consequences of the glycolytic
phenotype in invasive cancer
12:15-12:45 Kevin Painter
Modelling
the Development and Treatment of Astrocytic Brain Tumours
Contributed session - Ecology (session 2)
(406)
(Brian Beckage, Chair)
10:45-11:00 John Banks
Spatial
heterogeneity in agroecosystems: field experiments and models
11:00-11:15 Christina Cobbold
Host-Parasitoid
Systems: Modeling the Forest Tent
Caterpillar
11:15-11:30 Bertram Zinner
Estimating
survival rates associated with philopatry and dispersal based on census data for
an open population
11:30-11:45 Nadiah Kristensen
What is the role of resilience in ecosystem
structure and development?
11:45-12:00 Dorothy Moorefield
Spatial
Effects of Ozone Damage in Leaves
Contributed session – Epidemiology
(417)
(Holly Gaff, Chair)
10:45-11:00 Chris Bauch
Noisy
Determinism in Childhood Diseases
11:00-11:15 Kieth Emmert
Stability and
Chaotic Dynamics in Deterministic and Stochastic Structured Epidemic Models
11:15-11:30
Nadarajah Kirupaharan
Competitive
Exclusion and Coexistence in Discrete-Time Deterministic and Stochastic Spatial
Epidemic Models with Multiple Pathogens
11:30-11:45 Matthew Schuette
A Qualitative
Analysis of a Model for the Transmission of Varicella-Zoster Virus
12:45-2:00
Closing Lunch