The Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting and Conference, July 25-28, 2012
SMB 2012 Minisymposia
Emergence of resistance in cancer and bacteria-can we beat them at their game?
Organizers:
David Basanta (Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA);
Jacob Scott (Centre for Mathematical Biology, Oxford, UK)
Data-driven modeling in mathematical oncology
Organizer:
Banu Baydil (Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA)
Modeling, simulation, and validation of the biomechanics of microbial communities
Organizer:
David Bortz (Mathematics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA)
Trends and innovations in undergraduate math biology curricula
Organizers:
Meghan Burke (Education Committee Chair, Society for Mathematical Biology; Mathematics, Kennesaw State Univ., Kennesaw, GA, USA);
Kelly Sturner (Education & Outreach Coordinator, NIMBioS: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA)
Intracellular pattern formation: Advances in experiments and modeling
Organizers:
Ching-shan Chou (Mathematics, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA);
Adriana Dawes (Mathematics, Molecular Genetics, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA)
Mathematical modeling of immunization programs
Organizers:
Ariel Cintron-Arias (Mathematics & Statistics, East Tennessee State Univ., Johnson City, TN, USA);
Euha Shim (Epidemiology, Univ. of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, PA, USA)
Modeling gene regulatory networks
Organizers:
Tim Comar (Mathematics, Benedictine Univ., Lisle, IL, USA);
Dan Hrozencik (Mathematics & Computer Science, Chicago State Univ., Chicago, IL, USA)
Experimental design for dynamical system models in biology
Organizer:
Vanja Dukic (Applied Mathematics, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA)
First-year mathematics course reform for biology majors
Organizer:
Carrie Diaz Eaton (Mathematics, Center for Biodiversity, Unity College, Unity, ME, USA)
Honeybees and pollination
Organizer:
Hermann Eberl (Mathematics & Statistics and Biophysics Interdepartmental Program, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada)
Mathematical models of stem-cell driven solid tumors
Organizer:
Heiko Enderling (Center of Cancer Systems Biology, Tufts Univ. School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA)
Bridging mathematical models and experiments
Organizer:
Yi Jiang (Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA; and Technical Staff Member, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, USA)
Multiscale modeling of biochemical networks that control cell polarization and motility
Organizers:
Alexandra Jilkine (Molecular and Cellular Biology, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA);
Jun Allard (Mathematics, Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA)
Mathematical models in cell biomechanics and intracellular transport
Organizers:
MunJu Kim (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA);
Kasia Rejniak (Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute; Oncologic Sciences, College of Medicine, Univ. of South Florida Tampa, FL, USA)
Agent-based models of biological systems: Approximation and control
Organizers:
Suzanne Lenhart (Mathematics, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA);
Abdessamad Tridane (Applied Sciences & Mathematics, Arizona State Univ. at Polytechnic Campus, Mesa, AZ, USA)
Epidemiology of multi-host pathogens: Math and biology perspectives
Organizers:
Carrie Manore (Mathematics and Computational Science, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA, USA);
Folashade Agusto (Mathematics and Statistics, Austin Peay State Univ., Clarksville, TN, USA);
Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem (Mathematics, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA)
Modeling and computation of macromolecular structures and interactions
Organizers:
Julie Mitchell (Mathematics and Biochemistry, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA);
Shan Zhao (Mathematics, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
Modeling and simulations of biopolymer meshworks (MSBM)
Organizers:
Dietmar Ölz, (Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria);
Nikolaos Sfakianakis (Applied Mathematics, JGU Mainz, Germany)
Survey of mathematical modeling techniques for wound healing
Organizer:
Rebecca Segal (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA, USA)
Continuum model descriptions of bacterial biofilms
Organizers:
Rangarajan Sudarsan (Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada);
Nick Cogan (Mathematics, Florida State Univ. Tallahassee, FL, USA)
Recent advances in infectious disease modeling
Organizer:
Robert Smith? (Mathematics, The Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)
Cancer Immunology
Organizer:
Kathleen Wilkie (Center of Cancer Systems Biology, Tufts Univ. School of Medicine; Boston, MA, USA)
Multiscale modeling of cell movement
Organizers:
Chuan Xue (Mathematics, Ohio State Univ., Columbus OH, USA)
Qixuan Wang (Mathematics, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)
Molecular Motors
Organizer:
Jianhua Xing (Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA)
Electrostatics: Numerical algorithms and biological applications
Organizers:
Yongcheng Zhou (Mathematics, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO, USA);
Weihua Geng (Mathematics, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
