Friday January 11 LCB 225  | 
 
German Enciso, Harvard University  Motion in the right direction: a
 model of direction selectivity in the retina 
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Monday January 14 LCB 225  | 
 
Patrick Shipman, University of Maryland 
Phyllotaxis: Cooperation and Competition between Mechanical and
Biochemical Processes (abstract) 
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Wednesday January 16
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Joel Tabak, Florida State University
 
Fast potassium currents can stimulate calcium influx and hormone
 secretion
in pituitary cells
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Friday January 18 LCB 225  | 
 
Justin Kao , Northwestern University
 Resonant rupture of thin films and particle capture by freezing fronts (abstract)
 
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Wednesday January 23
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Dr Keiichi Ueda, 
RIMS Kyoto University, Japan Pulse dynamics in heterogeneous media (abstract)
 
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Friday January 25 LCB 225  | 
 
Roy Wright, University of California, Davis
  Mathematical Methods for Connecting Ecological Scales (abstract)
 
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3:30 pm, Tuesday January 29 LCB 219
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Julia Arciero, University of Arizona A theoretical model for
 metabolic regulation of blood flow
 (abstract)
 
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Friday February 1 LCB 225  | 
 
Elizabeth Bouzarth, University of North Carolina 
Modeling Biologically Inspired Fluid Flow Using Regularized
Singularities and Spectral Deferred Corrections(abstract)
 
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Monday February 4 LCB 219  | 
 
Angela Reynolds, University of Pittsburgh  
Mathematical Models of Acute Inflammation (abstract)
 
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3:30 pm, Monday February 11 LCB 219  | 
 
John Mayberry, USC 
Stochastic Integrate-and-Fire Models: A Spectral Approach(abstract) 
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Wednesday February 13
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Kevin Lin, University of Arizona 
Reliability of coupled oscillators (abstract)
 
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Friday February 15
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Lingxing Yao, University of North Carolina 
(abstract)
 
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Tuesday, 3:05pm February 19 LCB 219  | 
 
Andrea Barreiro, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
 Bifurcation Theory for a Model of the Oculomotor
Neural Integrator(abstract)
 
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Wednesday February 27
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Recruting Weekend Organizational Meeting
 
 
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Wednesday March 5
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CANCELLED  Catherine Beauchemin, Ryerson University 
Theoretical modelling of influenza viral infections (abstract)
 
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Wednesday March 12 
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C. G. Farmer, Biology, University of Utah 
Can Mathematical Models Help Elucidate the History of the Vertebrate Lung?(abstract)
 
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Wednesday March 19
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Spring Break, No talk today
 
  (abstract)
 
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Wednesday March 26
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Alisa Wolberg, UNC
 
Role of Surface-Driven Thrombin Generation on Fibrin Clot Structure
and Stability   (abstract)
 
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Friday April 4
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 Dan Gillespie, Gillespie Consultants 
"The Slow-Scale Stochastic Simulation Algorithm" (abstract)
 
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Monday April 7  LCB 219 @ 3:30 pm 
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Dr. Joseph Stover, University of Arizona 
 (abstract)
 
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Wednesday April 9 
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Dr. Arthur Sherman, NIH 
The Dual Oscillator Model for Calcium and Metabolism in Pancreatic
Beta
Cells (abstract)
 
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2pm Friday, April 11  AEB 310 
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Dr. Connie Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology 
Tissue factor bearing microparticles and biomaterial thrombogenicity (abstract)
 
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Wednesday April 16 
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Sharon Crook, Arizona State University 
Modeling activity-dependent changes in dendritic spine structure (abstract)
 
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Wednesday April 23
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Arjun Raj, MIT
 
Stochastic gene expression and cell fate--or, why are identical twins so identical? 
(abstract)
 
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Wednesday, April 30 3:05 pm, LCB 323
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Mark Zajac, U Conn
 
Depolymerization can drive Nematode Spermatozoon Crawling 
(abstract)
 
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Wednesday May 28
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Siv Sivaloganathan, Waterloo
 
"Biomechanics of soft tissues and transcapillary filtration"
(abstract)
 
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