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Now at NIMBioS

 Week of Sep 26–30, 2016

Mon-Thu: Working Group: Modeling Organisms-to-Ecosystems, 3rd meeting
Reception: Mon 5 pm

 Week of Oct 3–8, 2016

Tue 3:30 p.m., NIMBioS Seminar: Lauren Smith-Ramesh, NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow. Topic: Placing species invasions in a food web context: A new twist on old invasion hypotheses. The seminar will be streamed live.
Thu-Sat: Working Group: Teaching Quantitative Bio, 3rd meeting
Sat-Sun: Eighth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology, UT Conference Center

 Week of Oct 10–15, 2016

Tue 3:30 p.m., NIMBioS Seminar: Mark Moffett, National Museum of Natural History. Topic: How a shift in social identity made enormous societies possible: An overlooked turning point in human evolution. The seminar will be streamed live.
Tue-Thu: Working Group: Remotely Sensing Biodiversity, 2nd meeting

 Week of Oct 17–22, 2016

Tue 3:30 p.m., NIMBioS Seminar: Jay M. Ver Hoef (Natl. Marine Mammal Lab., NOAA-NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center, and NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor) Topic: Modern spatial statistics: Basis functions, convolutions, and big data. The seminar will be streamed live.
Wed-Thu: NIMBioS Board Meeting
Wed-Fri: Working Group: Spatial Cell Simulations, 3rd meeting

 Week of Oct 24–29, 2016

Thu-Fri: Working Group: Caulobacter Cell-Cycle Model, 1st meeting
Fri-Sat: Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Ceremony, hosted by NIMBioS at the UT Conference Center

 
 

Recent NIMBioS Publications

Finding the genomic basis of local adaptation: Pitfalls, practical solutions, and future directions
Advancing microbial sciences by individual-based modelling
Public control of rational and unpredictable epidemics
Tail use improves soft substrate performance in models of early vertebrate land locomotors
Ranavirus could facilitate local extinction of rare amphibian species
Mathematical modeling of early cellular innate and adaptive immune responses to ischemia/reperfusion injury and solid organ allotransplantation
Renal medullary and urinary oxygen tension during cardiopulmonary bypass in the rat
Quantifying limits on replication of death, and quiescence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice
Home-field advantage? evidence of local adaptation among plants, soil, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi through meta-analysis
A management-oriented framework for selecting metrics used to assess habitat- and path-specific quality in spatially structured populations
The costs of avoiding environmental impacts from shale gas surface infrastructure
MycoDB, a global database of plant response to mycorrhizal fungi
Self-harm to preferentially harm the pathogens within: Non-specific stressors in innate immunity
Root-disentangling canid howls across multiple species and subspecies: Structure in a complex communication
Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances
Can immune response mechanisms explain the fecal shedding patterns of cattle infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis?
Dominance of the suppressed: Power-law size structure in tropical forests
Leading indicators of mosquito-borne disease elimination
The evolution of antievolution policies after Kitzmiller v. Dover.
Assessing local population vulnerability with branching process models: an application to wind energy development
Broad CTL response in early HIV infection drives multiple concurrent CTL escapes
Predicting the role of IL-10 in the regulation of the adaptive immune responses in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infections using mathematical models
Comparative limb bone loading in the humerus and femur of the tiger salamander Ambystoma tigrinum
Leadership in mammalian societies: Emergence, distribution, power, and payoff
Social feedback and the emergence of rank in animal society
Interspecific contact and competition may affect the strength and direction of disease-diversity relationships for directly transmitted microparasites
Genetic variation, simplicity and evolutionary constraints for function-valued traits
Genetic and ecological data reveal species boundaries between viviparous and oviparous lizard lineages
Bayesian analysis of a morphological supermatrix sheds light on controversial fossil hominin relationships
Loci under selection during multiple range expansions of an invasive plant are mostly population‐specific, but patterns are associated with climate
Mainstreaming early warning systems in development and planning processes: Multilevel implementation of Sendai Framework in Indus and Sahel
Effects of light, nutrients, and food chain length on trophic efficiencies in simple stoichiometric aquatic food chain models
Decreased water limitation under elevated CO2 amplifies potential for forest carbon sinks
A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes
Topological effects of network structure on long-term social network dynamics in a wild mammal
Ex situ seed collections will benefit from considering spatial sampling design and species' reproductive biology
A theory of human warfare: group-structured cultural selection
Exploring the benefits of antibody immune response in HIV-1 infection using a discrete model
Using ABC and microsatellite data to detect multiple introductions of invasive species from a single source
Shared genetic diversity across the global invasive range of the monk parakeet suggests a common restricted geographic origin and the possibility of convergent selection
Stochastic dynamics of a warmer Great Barrier Reef
Estimating vocal repertoire size is like collecting coupons: A theoretical framework with heterogeneity in signal abundance
Chloroplast haplotypes suggest preglacial differentiation and separate postglacial migration paths for the threatened North American forest tree Juglans cinerea L.
A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes
Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus
Internet and Free Press Are Associated with Reduced Lags in Global Outbreak Reporting
Non-timber forest product harvest does not affect the genetic diversity of a tropical tree despite negative effects on population fitness
A comparison of elasticities of viral levels to specific immune response mechanisms in human immunodeficiency virus infection
Model selection in historical biogeography reveals that founder-event speciation is a crucial process in island clades
The socioecology of Monk Parakeets: Insights into parrot social complexity
Conservation paleobiology needs phylogenetic methods
Quantifying the impact of decay in bed-net efficacy on malaria transmission
Model selection in historical biogeography reveals that found-event speciation is a crucial process in island clades
Impacts of an interdisciplinary research center on participant publication and collaboration patterns: A case study of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
A theoretical mathematical assessment of the effectiveness of coartemether in the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection
Male hyraxes increase song complexity and duration in the presence of alert individuals
A theoretical mathematical assessment of the effectiveness of coartemether in the treatment of Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection
Comparative evaluation of potential indicators and temporal sampling protocols for monitoring genetic erosion
Optimal sampling of seeds from plant populations for ex-situ conservation of genetic biodiversity…
Persistent oscillations and backward bifurcation in a malaria model with varying human and mosquito populations…
Ecological effects and human use of commercial mosquito insecticides in aquatic communities
The elemental composition of virus particles: implications for marine biogeochemical cycles
Investigating the performance of AIC in selecting phylogenetic models
Effects of animal movement strategies and costs on the distribution of active subsidies across simple landscapes
An overview of the utility of population simulation software in molecular ecology
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
Species tree inference by the STAR method and its generalizations
Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures
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
 

NIMBioS Seminars

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Next: Tuesday, Oct 4, 3:30 pm (refreshments at 3)
Speaker: Lauren Smith-Ramesh, NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow
Topic: Placing species invasions in a food web context: A new twist on old invasion hypotheses. Flyer (PDF)
Location: Hallam Auditorium, Room 206, Claxton Bldg, 1122 Volunteer Blvd.
Watch live stream during the seminar. Watch previously recorded seminars online.  

Opportunities and Announcements

Register now for the 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Award Ceremony, to be held Oct 28-29, 2016, at the University of Tennessee Conference Center, Knoxville, TN. Deadline to register: Sep 30, 2016.
Register now for the NSF Mathematics Institutes' Modern Math Workshop (at SACNAS), to be held Oct 12-13, 2016, at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA. Deadline to register: Oct 1, 2016.
Requests for Visits to NIMBioS. NIMBioS hosts short-term supported visitors and self-supported visitors. Applications for Short-term Visits are considered 4 times a year with the following deadlines for submitting the requests: February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1.
Requests for NIMBioS Support. Requests for support for Working Groups and Investigative Workshops are considered two times per year, with deadlines on Mar 1 and Sep 1.
Click here to read more about opportunities for NIMBioS participation and support.