Seminars for Biomathematics
Spring 2022
View Previous SemestersJan 12 |
| Organizational Meeting |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Jan 26 |
| Tom Needham |
| Canceled for conflict with colloquium |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 202 |
Students are encouraged to attend the colloquium talk of Nick Miller instead. |
Feb 2 |
| Susan Rogowski |
| The Feedforward Loop Network Motif |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Feb 2 |
| Camden Neese (FSU Statistics) |
| Cracking the Code: Rate and Phase Analysis of Neuronal Spike Trains |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Love 202 |
The field of neural decoding studies how neurons transmit information in their electrical signals. Decoding has traditionally been dominated by a rate-oriented perspective, which largely ignores the p... More |
Feb 9 |
| Fan Bai |
| Temporal Programs and the Global Structure of Transcription Networks |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Feb 9 |
| Audrey Nash |
| Temperature Dependence of Vegetative Growth and Dark Respiration: A Mathematical Model |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Love 232 |
The Speaker will present the paper "Temperature Dependence of Vegetative Growth and Dark Respiration: A Mathematical Model" by Martin P. N. Gent and Herbert Z. Enoch. Abstract: A mathe... More |
Feb 16 |
| Richard Bertram |
| Positive Feedback, Bistability, and Memory |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Feb 16 |
| Margherita Ferrari (University of South Florida) |
| Graph Clustering for RNA Secondary Structure Analysis |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232/Zoom |
Unlike DNA, RNA is single stranded and folds via bonds between pairs of complementary nucleotides while it is still being synthesized from DNA. One central problem in molecular biology is understandin... More |
Feb 23 |
| Zachary Deskin (FSU) |
| A Mathematical Recommendation for Short-Term Treatment of HIV |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks white blood cells in our immune system, specifically the CD4+ T cells, which is used to help fight infections. It turns out that people with ... More |
Feb 23 |
| Nicole Bruce |
| How to Build a Biological Oscillator |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Mar 2 |
| Fan Bai |
| Kinetic Proofreading and Conformational Proofreading |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Mar 2 |
| Alex Elchesen and Iryna Hartsock |
| Topological data analysis of C. elegans locomotion and behavior |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 302/Zoom |
We will give a brief overview of topological data analysis and how it has been applied to biological systems. We'll then discuss work that we did applying topological data analysis to video of C. eleg... More |
Mar 9 |
| Naya Sawah (FSU) |
| Nonlinear Dynamics of Immunogenic Tumors: Parameter Estimation and Global Bifurcation Analysis |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 202 |
The speaker will discuss the paper "Nonlinear Dynamics of Immunogenic Tumors: Parameter Estimation and Global Bifurcation Analysis" by Kuznetsov et al. The abstract of the paper is: We ... More |
Mar 9 |
| Susan Rogowski |
| Robust Signaling by Bifunctional Components |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Mar 23 |
| Noel Milam (FSU) |
| A Mathematical Model of the Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Reversal of Type 2 Diabetes |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 202 |
The speaker will present the paper of Ha et al. The abstract of the paper follows below: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is generally thought to result from the combination of 2 metabolic defects... More |
Mar 30 |
| Tom Needham (FSU) |
| An Introduction to Computational Topology |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 107 |
This will be a joint seminar with the Undergraduate Mathematics Major Seminar. Note the room change. |
Apr 6 |
| Mehran Fazli |
| Dynamical Compensation and Mutant Resistance in Tissues |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Apr 13 |
| Nicole Bruce |
| Robust Spatial Patterning in Development |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Apr 13 |
| Mao Nishino (FSU Mathematics) |
| Subthreshold Dynamics in Periodically Stimulated Squid Giant Axons |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 202 |
Action potentials resulting from periodic stimulation of nerve axons occur at intervals that are irregular at moderate stimulation frequencies. Histograms of the intervals are multimodal, as seen in s... More |
Apr 20 |
| Brooke Haywood |
| The Input Functions of Genes: Michaelis–Menten and Hill Equations |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |