2006 Summer Program in Mathematical Biology for Undergraduates
Beginning in 2006, the MBI hosted a summer education program for undergraduates. The program consists of two parts: (a) two weeks of introductory lectures plus short projects and a computer lab, and (b) a summer long research experience (six weeks to be followed immediately after the two weeks) devoted to projects in the interface of mathematics, statistics, and biological sciences.
The 2006 Summer Program dates are July 5 - 17.
Program leaders:
- Dennis Pearl
- David Terman
- Kate Calder
- Ramana Davuluri
Week 1 |
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| Wednesday, July 5 | |||
| 9:00-10:00am | Dennis Pearl, Statistics: Statistical Phylogenetics - PPT | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | Dennis Pearl, Statistics: Statistical Phylogenetics - PPT | ||
| 1:30-3:30pm | Computer lab | ||
| Thursday, July 6 | |||
| 9:00-10:00am | David Terman, Mathematics: Mathematical Neuroscience - PPT | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | David Terman, Mathematics: Mathematical Neuroscience - PPT | ||
| 1:30-3:30pm | Computer lab | Friday, July 7 | |
| 9:00-10:00am | Kate Calder, Statistics: Environmental Statistics | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | Kate Calder, Statistics: Environmental Statistics | ||
| 1:30-3:30pm | Computer lab | Monday, July 10 | |
| 9:00-10:00am | Ramana Davuluri, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | ||
| 10:30-11:30am | Ramana Davuluri, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | ||
| 1:30-3:30pm | Computer lab | ||
Team projects: Tuesday, July 11 - Thursday, July 13
Mathematical Neuroscience Group
Project Advisor: David Terman
Presentation: PPT
Group: Ryan Chan, Adam Omidpanah, and Philip Carpenter
Bioinformatics Group
Project Advisor: Ramana Davuluri
Presentation: PPT, PPT
Group: Janet Doolittle and James Sharpnack
Statistical Phylogenetics Group
Project Advisor: Dennis Pearl
Presentation: PPT
Group: Carley Matanin, Kyle Walsh, and Lisa Booth
Environmental Statistics Group
Project Advisor: Kate Calder and Hongfei Li
Presentation: PPT
Group: Claude Davila, Nick Kefauver, Megan Meuti, and Praveen Attele
Visits to Ohio State laboratories doing quantitative work in the biological or medical sciences:
| Friday, July 14 | |||
| 9:30-10:15am | Stuart Mangel's lab | ||
| 10:30-11:15am | Pearlly Yan's lab | ||
| 1:30-2:15pm | John Wenzel's lab/Biodiversity Museum | ||
| 2:30-3:15pm | Libby Marschall's lab | Monday, July 17 | |
| Mini-conference with posters and oral presentations on projects. | |||
REU Experience:
| July 18 - August 22 | |||
| Selected students will gain further research experience by working on projects in one of the above topic areas (limited to one or two students from summer course per area based on national competition). Students in Bioinformatics will be chosen and funded by the Integrative Cancer Biology Program. |
August 23-24: Seminar presentations of results from REU experience
Lisa Booth: The Controversy of the Phylogyeny of Corbiculate Bees and what could cause it - PPT
Claude Davila: Arsenic in the Water - PPT
Janet Doolittle: Predicting transcription factor modules in tissue specific promoters using machine learning algorithms - PPT
Adam Omidpanah-Clark: Mechanisms of sleep and REM: a quartet model - PPT
Daniel Tse: DMH Data Normalization Methods - PPT
