The University of Tennessee, Knoxville requests nominations and applications of individuals to lead NIMBioS. We seek an internationally-recognized biologist or mathematician with extensive experience working at the interface of these two fields. For more information, click here.
| Spatial genetic structure in 21 populations of butternut, a temperate forest tree (Juglans cinerea L.), is correlated to spatial arrangement, habitat, and land-use history |
| Competition for antigen between Th1 and Th2 responses determines the timing of the immune response switch during Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection in ruminants |
| Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments |
| Effects of subsidy quality on reciprocal subsidies: How leaf litter species changes frog biomass |
| An image processing based paradigm for the extraction of tonal sounds in cetacean communications |
| Water stress strengthens mutualism among ants, trees, and scale insects |
| Behavioral refuges and predator-prey coexistence |
| Mighty small: Observing and modeling individual microbes becomes big science |
| The encoding of individual identity in dolphin signature whistles: how much information is needed? |
| Entropy rate as a measure of animal vocal complexity |
| Evaluation of the "Iceberg Phenomenon" in Johne's Disease through mathematical modeling |
| Evaluating the significance of paleophylogeographic species distribution models in reconstructing quaternary range-shifts of Nearctic Chelonians |
| Carryover effects in amphibians: How much complexity is needed to predict survival? |
| Demographic network and multi-season occupancy modeling of Rana sylvatica reveal spatial and temporal patterns of connectivity |
| War, space, and the evolution of Old World complex societies |
| Strong species-environment feedback shapes plant community assembly along environmental gradients |
| Modeling the forest |
| Latent tuberculosis: Models, computational efforts and the pathogen's regulatory mechanisms during dormancy |
| Cellular and population plasticity of helper CD4(+) T cell responses |
| Defoliaton and bark harvesting affect life history traits of a tropical tree |
| Homosexuality via canalized sexual development: A testing protocol for a new epigenetic model |
| Asymmetric selection and the evolution of extraordinary defences. Nature Communications |
| Analysis and simulation of propagule dispersal and salinity intrusion from storm surge on the movement of a marsh–mangrove ecotone in south Florida |
| Evolution of mate choice and the so called magic traits in ecological speciation |
| Demographic network and multi-season occupancy modeling of Rana sylvatica reveal spatial and temporal patterns of population connectivity and persistence |
| The ability of landowners and their cooperatives to leverage payments greater than opportunity costs from conservation contract |
| Structural balance in the social networks of a wild mammal |
| Spatial subsidies, trophic state, and community structure: Examining the effects of leaf litter input on ponds |
| The impact of bed-net use on malaria prevalence |
| Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures (Infec. Genet.Evol.) |
| Species tree inference by the STAR method and its generalizations |
| Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures (SACEMA) |
| Global mapping of infectious disease |
| Optimal control in individual-based models: Implications from aggregated methods |
| Behavioural changes and the adaptive diversification of pigeons and doves |
| On the role of screening and educational campaigns on controlling HCV in correctional institutions |
| Fatal or harmless: Extreme bistability induced by sterilizing, sexually transmitted pathogens |
| Identifying Transmission Cycles at the Human-Animal Interface: The Role of Animal Reservoirs in Maintaining Gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis |
| Homosexuality as a consequence of epigenetically canalized sexual development |
| Mathematical modeling of viral zoonoses in wildlife |
| Stochastic models for competing species with a shared pathogen |
| Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures |
| Incentives in the family II: Behavioral dynamics and the evolution of non-costly signaling |
| Communicating science through music: A case study from mathematics and biology |
| Multiple merger genes genealogies in two species: Monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly for two examples of Lambda coalescents |
| Modeling stabilizing selection: Expanding the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model of adaptive evolution |
| Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favors escape from parasites and pathogens |
| Human origins and the transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding |
| On the evolutionary origins of the egalitarian syndrome |
| Using optimal control theory to identify network structures that foster synchrony |
| How facilitation may interfere with ecological speciation |
| Genetic evidence for hybridization in red oaks (Quercus sect. Lobatae, Fagaceae) |
| Beyond Lyme: Aeitology of tick-borne human diseases with emphasis on the south-eastern United States |
| How a hurricane disturbance influences extreme CO2 fluxes and variance in a tropical forest |
| Optimal control of integrodifference equations with growth-harvesting-dispersal order |
| Data-driven models for regional coral-reef dynamics |
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NIMBioS hosts a seminar series on topics in mathematical biology. The speaker for Thursday, February 27, 3:30 p.m. was Nicole Mideo, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Toronto. Her topic was Explaining the complex lives of malaria parasites. For a PDF flyer describing Dr. Mideo's talk, click here.
Seminars are held in the Hallam Auditorium, Room 206, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Light refreshments are served in the Auditorium starting 30 minutes before NIMBioS seminars.
Coping with the cold
Researchers have found new clues to how plants evolved to withstand wintry weather. In a study, which appears today in the journal Nature, researchers constructed an evolutionary tree of more than 32,000 species of flowering plants — the largest time-scaled evolutionary tree to date. Combining their evolutionary tree with freezing exposure records and leaf and stem data for thousands of species, the researchers were able to reconstruct how plants evolved to cope with cold as they spread across the globe. Read the full story.
Citation: Zanne, A., et al. 2013. Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments. Nature. [Online]More Featured Science >>
Adventures in STEM Summer Camp
Applications are now being accepted for Adventures in STEM, a summer camp in engineering, math and biology for middle school girls, co-hosted by CURENT and NIMBioS. The dates for this year's camp are June 23-27. The program includes hands-on activities, lab visits, team projects and culminates in a poster presentation -- all geared toward exposing the student to the exciting challenges of being a scientist or engineer. For more details and how to apply, click here.
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Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics
Applications are now being accepted for the NIMBioS Tutorial: Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics, to be held Aug 4-9, 2014, at NIMBioS, co-sponsored by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the American Society of Naturalists. Quantitative genetic theory has been applied to a wide range of phenomena including the evolution of differences between the sexes, sexual preferences, life history traits, plasticity of traits, as well as the evolution of body size and other morphological measurements. This tutorial is for evolutionary biologists interested in how quantitative genetics theory can be tested with data. Application deadline: May 1, 2014. Click here for a descriptive flyer. For more information about the tutorial and how to apply click here.
Requests for NIMBioS Support
Requests for NIMBioS support for Working Groups, Investigative Workshops, and Sabbatical Fellows are considered two times per year, with deadlines on March 1 and September 1. Requests for Short-term Visits are considered at any time, but applications should be submitted a minimum of 6 weeks prior to the proposed visit date.
All areas of research at the interface of
biology and mathematics will be considered, but we are especially
interested in activities expanding beyond the areas of research
supported to date. Potential organizers of activities in areas of
molecular biology, cell biology, network biology, immunology and systems
biology are particularly encouraged to submit requests for support of
Working Groups or Investigative Workshops.
Call for Postdoctoral Fellowships
NIMBioS considers applications for postdoctoral scholarship two times per year, with deadlines on September 1 and December 11.
We are particularly interested in requests to support research that integrates diverse fields, requires synthesis at multiple scales, and/or makes use of or requires development of new mathematical/ computational approaches. Complete the online application and submit a brief project description, references, and CV following the guidelines available at
http://www.nimbios.org/postdocs/.
Apply for the Graduate Student Fellowship
NIMBioS is pleased to offer fellowships for visits to NIMBioS for up to several months by graduate students interested in pursuing research with NIMBioS senior personnel, postdoctoral fellows or working group participants. The program is designed to facilitate graduate student training while fostering research at the interface of mathematics and biology. For more information about the fellowship and how to apply, click here.
