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Mini-workshop: Opportunities in Mathematical Biology for Under-represented Groups (March 23-25, 2007)

Organizers: Carlos Castillo Chavez, Trachette Jackson, Simon Levin, and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

The Mathematical Biosciences Institute will hold a workshop titled "Opportunities in Mathematical Biology for Under-represented Groups" during March 23-25, 2007. The organizers are Carlos Castillo Chavez, Trachette Jackson, Simon Levin, and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu. The workshop will bring together approximately 40 researchers from under-represented groups in mathematical biology to broaden their scientific perspective and to develop connections that will be important for their future careers.

Research participants will include students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty; they will be encouraged to present a poster on current research and give a 5-minute advertisement of the poster.

The workshop will feature a panel discussion on careers in mathematical biology, and working group discussions on broad issues relevant to researchers in mathematical biology.

Schedule

Friday, March 23
Ecology/Conservation Biology/Resource Management/Disease/Multi-scaling
Moderator: Carlos Castillo-Chavez
9:00-9:30am Welcome and overview of goals of workshop - Avner Friedman, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Trachette Jackson, Simon Levin, and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
9:30-10:30am Wayne Getz: Mathematical Ecologist: Nerd or Outdoorsman?
10:30-11:00am Coffee break
11:00-12:00pm Janet Best
12:00-1:30pm Lunch break
Moderator: Trachette Jackson
1:30-2:30pm Rachel Kuske: Transients + instabilities + noise = structure?
2:30-3:00pm Coffee break
3:00-4:00pm Carlos Castillo-Chavez: Dynamics of Re-Emergent Diseases: The Case of Tuberculosis
4:00-5:00pm Abdul-Aziz Yakubu: Spatially Discrete Dispersal-Linked Models With Directional Dispersal
5:00-7:00pm Reception in MW 724
Saturday, March 24
Physiology and Cancer
Moderator: Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
9:00-10:00am Mike Reed: Control Mechanisms in One-Carbon Metabolism
10:00-10:30am Coffee break
10:30-11:30am Trachette Jackson: Modeling the Cellular, Molecular, and Tissue Interactions Associated with Tumor Induced Angiogenesis
11:30-12:30pm Richard Rand: Differential Delay Equations in Gene Copying
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
Moderator: Trachette Jackson
2:00-3:00pm John Guckenheimer: Entering No Man's Land: Multiple Time Scales in Neural Systems
3:00-4:00pm Panel Discussion: Janet Best, Abba Gumel, Lou Gross, and Carlos Castillo-Chavez
4:00-4:15pm Coffee break
4:15-5:00pm Quick presentations by students and postdocs in attendance
6:00-9:00pm Dinner at the University Plaza
Sunday, March 25
Genetics and Genomics
Moderator: Abdul-Aziz Yakubu
9:00-10:00am Avner Friedman: Multiscale models of tumors
10:00-10:15am Coffee break
10:15-11:15am Claudia Neuhauser: When ecology meets genealogy
11:15-12:15pm Warren Ewens: Training for, and career opportunities in, genomics and bioinformatics
12:15-12:45pm Coffee break
12:45-1:45pm Ryan Hernandez: Population genetic inference when mutation rates are context-dependent