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 |
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| Friday, March 23 | |||
| Ecology/Conservation Biology/Resource Management/Disease/Multi-scaling Moderator: Carlos Castillo-Chavez |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | ||
