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Journal Club (Spring 2025) - Schedule

Meetings are held Wednesdays from 5:00-6:00 pm in Dirac 216

Theme: Any paper that makes you HAPPY! 😀 … or very sad!

Please email Chris Ryzowicz (cjr22@fsu.edu) and Dr. Richard Bertram (rbertram@fsu.edu) with a pdf of your paper at least 1 week prior to your assigned day.

Date

Speaker

Paper

1/8

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Organizational Meeting

1/15

Richard Bertram

Are Physiological Oscillations Physiological?

(Xiong and Garfinkel)

1/22

Bhargav Karamched

Lotka-Volterra Predator-Prey Model with Periodically Varying Carrying Capacity

(Swailem and Tauber)

(Cancelled due to winter weather)

1/29

Bhargav Karamched

Lotka-Volterra Predator-Prey Model with Periodically Varying Carrying Capacity

(Swailem and Tauber)

2/4

Youngmin Park

Biomathematics Seminar

*Tuesday at 11:35am in LOV 301*

2/12

James Thornham

Metabolic and Electrical Oscillations: Partners in Controlling Pulsatile Insulin Secretion

(Bertram, Sherman, and Satin)

2/19

David Wharton

The Primacy Model and the Structure of Olfactory Space

(Giaffar, Shuvaev, Rinberg, and Koulakov)

2/26

Dana Hughes

A Mathematical Model of Aging-Related and Cortisol Induced Hippocampal Dysfunction

(McAuley, Kenny, Kirkwood, Wilkinson, Jones, and Miller)

3/5

Christopher Ryzowicz

Analysis of Homeostatic Mechanisms in Biochemical Networks

(Reed, Best, Golubitsky, Stewart, and Nijhout)

3/12

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Spring Break (No Meeting)

3/18

John Rinzel

Structural Biology and Biochemistry Seminar

*Tuesday at 11:15am in KLB 112*

3/26

Noel Milam

A Mathematical Model of the Dynamics of Cytokine Expression and Human Immune Cell Activation in Response to the Pathogen Staphylococcus aureus

(Talaei, Lobosco et al.)

4/2

Sarah Romero

A Unified Mathematical Model of Thyroid Hormone Regulation and Implication for Personalized Treatment of Thyroid Disorders

(Tang, Tang, Haller, Schatz, and Rong)

4/9

Greg Owanga

Population Bursts in a Modular Neural Network as a Mechanism for Synchronized Activity in KNDy Neurons

(Blanco, Tabak, and Bertram)

4/16

Sarah Williams

1.  Mathematical Modeling of Interactions between Colon Cancer and the Immune System with a Deep Learning Algorithm

(Raeisi, Yavuz, Khosravifarsani, and Fadaei)

2.  Data Driven Mathematical Model of Colon Cancer Progression

(Kirshtein, Shahriyari, et al.)

4/23

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No Meeting

4/30

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Finals Week (No Meeting)

(NO regular meeting on 2/5, 3,12, 3/19, 4/23, or 4/30)

Scoring for each paper is based on Journal Club attendees’ personal judgment.

Each journal clubber rates a given paper on a scale from 1 to 5,

with “5” being “Highly Competitive” and “1” being “Not Competitive”.

A paper’s recorded “Score” is the average of these individual scores.

Papers’ evaluation for the Bellman prize is based on the following criteria:

1) Significance,

2) Readability and

3) Clarity of objective.

Previous Semesters Papers/Books:

Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024