Sam Hsu

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About

Yueh-Ya "Sam" Hsu
BS, Applied Mathematics
Expected Graduation: May 2015

Contact

Email: yuehya.hsu (at) colorado.edu

Research

My research advisor is Professor David Bortz. In Summer 2012 - Fall 2012, I was supported by a Research Assistantship from the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at CU Boulder. Currently, I am supported as a undergraduate research assistant under Dr. Bortz's microbial flocculation dynamics NSF grant. I'm currently working on a project examining the pathway dynamics of the immune complement as a biological extension of my studies of the Michaelis-Menten model.

The following links are essentially a personal collection of notes for my research. They are probably unclear in some places.

REPRODUCED RESULTS/LITERATURE SURVEYS

• Using Systems Biology to Analyze Reactions
• Analyzing the Closed Michaelis-Menten Model
• Applying Convex Analysis to Extreme Pathways

MICHAELIS-MENTEN WORK

• Reaction Efficiency in an Open Michaelis-Menten System

IMMUNE COMPLEMENT WORK

• SVD Analysis of C5a Production Through Bacterial Extracellular Polymeric Substance
• Approximating Diffusion as a "Flux"
  • Generalizing to More Points
  • Application to C5a Production with Spatial Component
    • Looking for a Steady-State Flux Distribution
  • Multiple Bins
  • Multiple Bins (2)

Publications

1. E. C. Conrad, Y.-Y. Hsu, D. M. Bortz, & J. G. Younger, "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Complement C5a Production within Bacterial Extracellular Polymeric Substance". Journal of Innate Immunity 5(2), 2013. doi