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Mathematical Biology at the University of Colorado.

• Welcome to the Mathematical Biology Group in the Applied Mathematics Department.

News

• 3/30/2012 Kristine Snyder (CU Applied Math PhD 2011) has won an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. Congratulations Dr. Synder!

• 3/2/2012 Michael Waterman will be giving the Applied Math colloquium on Friday 3/2 at 3pm in ECCR 265. Prof. Waterman will be speaking on Sequence Comparison Without Alignment.

• 11/22/2011 The Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology (IQBio) is an exciting graduate program recently created at CU. Major research areas in this program include mathematical and computational biology and students can apply to any one of eight departments. See (here) for more information. Applications are due December 15, 2011.

• 10/21/2011 The mathematical biology group announces open postdoc positions to work in the group of David Bortz. Please apply here.

• 10/21/2011 Martin Sotola has won an UROP Individual Award! Congratulations Martin!

• 10/10/2011 Victoria Gershuny and Ben Noe have won a UROP Team Award! Congratulations Victoria and Ben!

• 10/07/2011 Itai Cohen will be giving the Applied Math colloquium on Friday 10/7 at 3pm in ECCR245. Prof. Cohen will be speaking on The Flight of the Fruit Fly.

• 09/09/2011 The NIH proposal submitted by John Younger and David Bortz on the Immune Complement Cascade has been funded.

• 08/23/2011 Dua Chaker and Stephen Kissler have won 2011 Provost Achievement Awards! These highly competitive scholarships are given to only a handful of CU juniors each year. Congratulations Dua and Stephen!

• 06/24/2011 Erin Byrne has successfully defended her dissertation "The Post-fragmentation Probability Density for Bacterial Aggregates." She will be staring a postdoc at Harvey Mudd in August. Congratulations Dr. Byrne!

• 04/07/2011 Kristine Snyder has successfully defended her dissertation "Tuning and Control in Human Locomotion." Congratulations Dr. Snyder!

• 03/29/2011 Jason Hammond's paper on analytical solutions to Fisher's equation with time-varying coefficients has been accepted by Applied Math and Computation.

• 02/17/2011 Daniel Larremore, Woodrow Shew, and Juan Restrepo, Predicting Criticality and Dynamic Range in Complex Networks: Effects of Topology, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 058101 (2011).

• 12/20/2010 Erin Byrne's paper on the post-fragmentation probability density function has been accepted by Physical Review E.

• 12/03/2010 Eric Shea-Brown will be giving the APPM Colloquium on Friday. Prof. Shea-Brown is a researcher in mathematical neuroscience at the University of Washington.

• 10/18/2010 There is an exciting new graduate program at CU in Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology (IQBio). The program lies at the intersection of Mathematical Biology, Computational Biology, Bioengineering, Biophysics, and Image Analysis. The website is now live and applications are due January 5, 2011.

• 09/24/2010 Marty Golubitsky will be giving the APPM Colloquium on Friday. Marty is the director of the NSF-funded Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University.

• 08/31/2010 Erin Byrne and Jason Hammond will be presenting their work at the 2010 Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology

• 05/03/2010 APPM 4390/5390 students have done a wonderful job adding entries to the Math Bio Wiki.

• 04/06/2010 Matanya Horowitz has won an NSF graduate fellowship. These fellowships are the premier graduate fellowships in the country. Congratulations Matanya!

• 03/30/2010 Toni Klopfenstein will be participating in the SAMSI Undergraduate Modeling Workshop.

• 03/12/2010 Erin Byrne is giving a talk in the math biology seminar at U. Michigan.

• 09/18/2009 Juan Restrepo and Alain Karma, Spatiotemporal intracellular calcium dynamics during cardiac alternans, Chaos, 19, 037115 (2009).

• 09/01/2009 The NSF proposal submitted by Mike Solomon, Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, John Younger, and David Bortz has been funded.

• 05/01/2009 Check out all the excellent projects created by the students in the Math Bio class (APPM 4390/5390).

• 04/27/2009 Erin Byrne will be participating in the IMSM Workshop for Graduate Students.

• 04/21/2009 Jason Hammond will be participating in the MBI summer graduate program in Mathematical Ecology and Evolution.

• 04/17/2009 The NIH proposal submitted by John Younger and David Bortz on the Biomechanics of Bacteremia has been funded.

• 04/17/2009 David Bortz's AFOSR proposal with Andrew Christlieb has been funded.

• 03/30/2009 Juan G. Restrepo and Alain Karma, Line-defect patterns of unstable spiral waves in cardiac tissue, Phys. Rev. E 79, 030906(R) (2009).

• 03/26/2009 Several group members will be speaking at this summer's SIAM annual meeting in Denver. Jason Hammond will be speaking about traveling wave solutions in spatial genetics. The minisymposia MS03/MS10 "Biofilm-Flow Interactions" and MS71 "Modeling of Large-Scale Metabolic Networks - Theoretical and Computational Advances" have also been accepted. Erin Byrne will be speaking in MS03 and David Biagioni will be speaking in MS71.

• 01/12/2009 The Mathematical Biology Course APPM 4390/5390 has begun.

• 11/01/2008 H. Chung, M. M. Cartwright, D. M. Bortz, T. L. Jackson, and J. G. Younger, Dynamical System Analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis Bloodstream Infection, SHOCK, 30(5):518-526, November 2008.

• 06/20/2008 Manuel Lladser's NSF proposal has been funded.

• 03/18/2008 D. M. Bortz, T. L. Jackson, K. A. Taylor, A. P. Thompson, and J. G. Younger, Klebsiella pneumoniae flocculation dynamics, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 70(3):745-768, April 2008.