Now at NIMBioS
Week of Sep 18–23, 2017
| Please welcome new NIMBioS postdoc Charlotte Chang (EEB, Princeton Univ.) whose project is to integrate socio-cultural and spatial processes into probabilistic and spatially-explicit socio-ecological models of hunting. |
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Visitors:
Anna Fiedler (Inst. of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen) 8/16-9/22 |
Week of Sep 25–30, 2017
| Tue 3:30 p.m., NIMBioS Seminar: Elizabeth Borer (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Univ. of Minnesota; NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor) Topic: Tools to predict future Earth: Using theory and experiments to guide expectations for the future of the world's grasslands |
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Wed-Fri:
Working Group:
Models of Produce Contamination, 3rd meeting
Reception: Wed 5 p.m. |
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Visitors:
Anna Fiedler (Inst. of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen) 8/16-9/22 |
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News:
– Recording now available for Panel on Proposals for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) – Blog post: Working Groups Tour SAL@NIMBioS |
Week of Oct 2–7, 2017
| Tue-Wed: (NICS/NIMBIOS) XSEDE HPC Monthly Workshop: MPI at NIMBioS. Register by 9 a.m. Sep 29 |
Recent NIMBioS Publications
| Cultural multilevel selection suggests neither large or small cooperative agreements are likely to solve climate change without changing the game | |
| What are the environmental determinants of phenotypic selection? A meta-analysis of experimental studies | |
| Catch bonds at T cell interfaces: Impact of surface reorganization and membrane fluctuations | |
| Climate seasonality, fire and global patterns of tree cover | |
| A risk assessment framework for seed degeneration: Informing an integrated seed health strategy for vegetatively propagated crops. Phytopathology | |
| The aliens among us: How invasive species are transforming the planet – and ourselves | |
| Modeling virus coinfection to inform management of maize lethal necrosis in Kenya | |
| Collective action and the evolution of social norm internalization | |
| Defining and classifying migratory habitats as sources and sinks: The migratory pathway approach | |
| Beyond nutrients: A meta-analysis of the diverse effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plants and soils | |
| Predicting human olfactory perception from chemical features of odor molecules | |
| Selecting the best stable isotope mixing model to estimate grizzly bear diets in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem | |
| The evolution of parasitic and mutualistic plant-virus symbioses through transmission-virulence trade-offs | |
| Constraints on the Fst-heterozygosity outlier approach | |
| Transit times and mean ages for nonautonomous and autonomous compartmental systems | |
| The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences | |
| The next frontier of plant-soil feedback research: unraveling context dependence across biotic and abiotic gradients | |
| Inferring biomarkers for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection and disease progression in cattle using experimental data | |
| Precipitation drives global variation on natural selection | |
| Contrasting post-settlement selection results in many-to-one mapping of high performance phenotypes in the Hawaiian waterfall-climbing goby Sicyopterus stimpsoni | |
| Optimization and control of agent-based models in biology: A perspective | |
| Best practices for virtual participation in meetings: Experiences from synthesis centers | |
| Genome-wide selection components analysis in a fish with male pregnancy | |
| Mate quality and the temporal dynamics of breeding in a sex-role-reversed pipefish, S. typhle | |
| Invasive plant alters community and ecosystem dynamics by promoting native predators | |
| Maximizing diversity in biology and beyond | |
| skeleSim: an extensible, general framework for population genetic simulation in R | |
| The coevolution of economic institutions and sustainable consumption via cultural group selection | |
| Phylogenetics and biogeography of the dung beetle genus Onthophagus inferred from mitochondrial genomes | |
| 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
Next: Tuesday, September 26, 3:30 (refreshments at 3)
Speaker: Elizabeth Borer, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Univ. of Minnesota; NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor.
Host: Lauren Smith-Ramesh.
Topic:
Tools to predict future Earth: Using theory and experiments to guide expectations for the future of the world's grasslands.
Flyer (PDF)
Location: Room 206, Claxton Bldg, 1122 Volunteer Blvd.
NIMBioS seminars are streamed live.
Watch previously recorded seminars online.
Opportunities and Announcements
| Louis J. Gross has been named the new director of NIMBioS, effective July 1, 2017. Gross is a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the founding director of NIMBioS. His research focuses on computational and mathematical ecology. |
| Apply now for the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop, Stoichiometric Ecotoxicology, to be held Jan 17-19, 2018, at NIMBioS. Deadline to apply: Sep 25, 2017. |
| NICS and NIMBioS host a monthly XSEDE workshop on topics related to high performance computing. Register now for the next workshop, to be held Oct 3-4 at NIMBioS. Registration deadline: 9 a.m. Sep 29. Topic: MPI |
| Call for funding applications for the Ninth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology to be held Nov 11-12, 2017, at the University of Tennessee Conference Center, Knoxville, TN. Deadline to apply for funding: Sep 22. Deadline to register: Oct 13. |
| 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: Feb 1, May 1, Aug 1 and Nov 1. |
| New! Check out our new Accelerator Tutorials and Innovator Workshops. We are looking for proposals for transformative research (Innovator Workshops) and proposals for innovative ideas for teaching new quantitative approaches (Accelerator Tutorials). The next deadline to submit a proposal is Nov 1. |
