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

11. Raymond Mejia. New Evidence for Mechanism of Solute Concentration by Mammalian Kidney

12. Thomas Robbins. Computational model for seed dispersal

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

16. Trachette L. Jackson.  A Mechanical Model of Tumor Encapsulation and Transcapsular Spread

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

Predator-Mediated Permanence

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

The role of harvest and predation in some age structured population models

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

Mathematical Biosciences Institute: Programs and Problems

 

 

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