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The Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting and Conference, July 25-28, 2012
SMB 2012 Poster Sessions with Reception, Cumberland Concourse

DAYS:     Wednesday    Thursday

Wednesday, July 25

ID# Name Affiliation Title
EDUCATION    Wednesday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS1 Hristo Kojouharov Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX, USA Research-oriented education at the intersection of biology and mathematics: The undergraduate training in theoretical ecology research (UTTER) program
PS2 Jeremy Wojdak Radford Univ., Radford, VA, USA SUMS4BIO – Increasing quantitative sophistication across the undergraduate biology curriculum: horizontal and vertical integration across courses.
EPIDEMIOLOGY   Wednesday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS3 Xiaopeng Zhao Univ. of Tennessee A Mathematical Model for Within-host Toxoplasma gondii Invasion Dynamics
PS4 Beth Bradley Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA The Search for a Dengue Reservoir in the Aedes Mosquito Population
PS5 Rebecca Borchering Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA A Simple Spatiotemporal Rabies Model for Skunk and Bat Interaction in Northeast Texas
PS6 Samit Bhattacharyya Univ. of Utah, UT, USA RSV and HPIV: do they interact?
CANCER MODELING   Wednesday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS7 Alexandra Jilkine Univ. of Arizona Mathematical Modelling of Mutation Initiation and Acquisition in Stem Cell Driven Cancers
PS8 Alina Toma Univ. of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germanyu Mathematical Modeling of Tumor Dynamics and Radiotherapy for Early Glioma
PS9 Sandra Delgadillo Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C., Guanajuato, GTO, MEX A numerical study of the evolution of an aggressive heterogeneous tumor with different chemotherapy treatments
PS10 Ashfaque Bokhari King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Tumor growth and its monitoring
PS11 Deborah Markham Centre for Mathematical Biology, Univ. of Oxford, United Kingdom Multiscale Models of Somatic Evolution in Ductal Carcinomas
PS12 Carolyn Drobak St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA Modeling the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis System for Dexamethasone Treatment
BIOPHYSICS / BIOFLUID DYNAMICS   Wednesday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS13 Phuong Nguyen Agresearch Limited, Ruakura Research Centre, Private Bag 3123, Hamilton, New Zealand Reaction-Diffusion Models of Compartmentalization of Steroid Synthesis
POPULATION BIOLOGY   Wednesday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS14 Koichi Ito Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto Univ., Japan Effect of functional form of interaction on evolution of cooperation
PS15 Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng Feng-Chia Univ. Modeling stabilizing selection: expanding the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck model of adaptive evolution
PS16 Luis Alejandro Mahecha Gonzalez Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Effects of noise gene expression on background and cooperator-defector fitness.
PS17 Wonju Jeon National Institute for Mathematical Sciences Theoretical Study of Algal Bloom Dynamics with Akinete Formation and Germination
PS18 Shimantika Sharma School of Biology G-DES: An Efficient Software For Microbial Gene-Level Diversity Estimation
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY   Wednesday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS19 Michael Berglund Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Computational Method for Identifying Space Polygons
PS20 Bradford Taylor Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA Not all Parameters Matter: Local and Global Sensitivity Analysis applied to Phage Lambda Lysis/Lysogeny Models
PS21 Nathan Weinstein Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Distrito Federal, México. A Computational Model of the Network that Controls Fate Determination and Cell Fusion in the Vulval Precursor Cells of Caenorhabditis elegans
PS23 Yiding Yang Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Kinetics of CD8+ T Cell Responses during Primary HIV-1 Infection
PHYSIOLOGY   Wednesday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS24 Angela Reynolds Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA, USA A Subsystem Approach to Understanding the Inflammatory Response in a Wound
NEUROBIOLOGY   Wednesday, July 25, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS25 Jozsi Jalics Youngstown State Univ., Youngstown, OH, USA Effects of Tachykinin Receptor Activation on Prefrontal Cortex Neuronal Activity

Thursday, July 26Top    

ID# Name Affiliation Title
ECOLOGY   Thursday, July 26, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS26 Blake Stevison Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK, USA Stoichiometry Driven Patch Foraging: A Nutrient Explicit Dynamic State-Variable Model
PS27 Roberto Ku Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas, Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico Nonlinear Juvenile Predation Population Dynamics
PS28 Rachel Fovargue Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA) Managing Reef Fish under Stochastic Dispersal Conditions
PS29 Christine Dumoulin Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA Modeling Spatial Information Transfer Across Trophic Levels
PS30 Carly Rozins Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada Forest Stability Analysis Through Percolation Theory and Mycorrhizal Networks
PS31 Abhiram Das Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA SoLID – An Online Community Database of Leaf Images
PS32 Gabriel Mitchell Georgia Institute of Technology A Statistical Analysis of Ecosystem Stability from Local and Global Interaction Structure
PS33 Mohammed Yahdi Ursinus College Modeling the Effect of Diversity in Host Plant-Herbivore-Predator Interactions
PS34 Melissa Anthony Saint Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO, USA Spatial Autocorrelation in Species Distribution Models: Simultaneous Incorporation of Multiple Scales of Influence Using a Bayesian Framework
PS35 Shaun Strohm Univ. of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada Mathematical Model for Mountain Pine Beetle Spread and Impacts of Park Management Strategies
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY - UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION    Thursday, July 26, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS36 James Dillon Univ. of Scranton, Scranton, PA and NIMBioS, Knoxville, TN, USA Modeling protein translation and genome evolution
PS37 Sarah Collier Univ. of Dayton, Dayton, OH and NIMBioS, Knoxville, TN, USA Modeling the evolution of sexual imprinting
PS38 Dalton Chaffee Bearden High School, Knoxville, TN, USA The Evolution of Imprinting
REGULATORY NETWORKS - UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION    Thursday, July 26, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS39 Jacob Norton North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA Understanding Blood Pressure Regulation through Mathematical Modeling
PS40 Nicholas Rohacz Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA Continuous Time Markov Chain Models of Gene Regulatory Networks under the Environmental Stress of Cold Shock in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PS41 Katrina Sherbina Loyola Marymount Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA Dynamical Systems Modeling of the Cold Shock Response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
CELL BIOLOGY - UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION    Thursday, July 26, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS42 Tiffany King Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Measurements and simulations of the tubular hearts of sea squirts
PS43 Estee George Youngstown State Univ., Youngstown, OH, 44555 Modeling Butanol Production by Clostridium beijerinckii.
PS44 Niklas Hartung Aix-Marseille Univ., France Metastatic growth in vivo and in silico
PS45 Connor Gallagher Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Dynamical Model of Pollen Tube Tip Geometry
PS46 Roger Fan Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA Modeling the Electrophysiology of Jellyfish Using the FitzHugh-Nagumo Equations
PS47 Matthew Pierson Youngstown State Univ., Youngstown, OH, USA Mathematical Modeling of Growth and Selenium Metabolism of S. maltophilia O2
PS48 Muhammad Shamim Rice Univ., Houston, TX, USA A Comprehensive Framework for Modeling Intestinal Smooth Muscle Cell Contraction with Applications to Intestinal Edema
PS49 Daniel Sindelar Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL, USA Modeling Mass Transport During Cell Cryopreservation and Determining Parameters for Cellular Lysis Upon Thawing
ECOLOGY - UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION    Thursday, July 26, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS50 Frances Hall Earlham College, Richmond, IN and NIMBioS, Knoxville, TN, USA Harnessing the arsenal of nature: developing natural pesticides
PS51 Elysia Hassen Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA Comparing the Impact of imposing the Allee Effect on the Predator versus Prey Populations in a Discrete Time Model
BIOENGINEERING - UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION    Thursday, July 26, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS52 Jonah Galeota-Sprung; Andrew Lantz; Tucker Whitesides Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA Exploring Emergent Behavior in Oscillatory Systems Using Agent-Based Modeling
PS53 Alexander Moore; Virginia Perkins; Linnea Edlin; Brad Isom Missouri Western State Univ., Saint Joseph, MO, USA Arrow Diagrams Arising from a Synthetic Biology Investigation
EPIDEMIOLOGY - UNDERGRADUATE POSTER SESSION    Thursday, July 26, 5:30-7:00 pm
PS54 Kelly Hennessey St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA and NIMBioS, Knoxville, TN, USA Modeling early evolution of human immunodeficiency virus
PS55 Elena Crosley Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME and NIMBioS, Knoxville, TN, USA Modeling Salmonella transmission in swine
PS56 Sarah Bogen Capital Univ., Columbus, OH and NIMBioS, Knoxville, TN, USA Agent-based mathematical model for Johne's disease epidemiology and economy
PS57 Adam Koss Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA Interspecific competition for algal resources alters disease dynamics in Daphnia
PS58 Jize Zhang Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA Modeling of Measles Epidemics By Realistic Age-Structured (RAS) Approach and Examining the Effects of Vaccination Through Individual-based Modeling
PS59 Shawn Means Auckland Bioengineering Institute Mitochondrial Calcium Handling and the Interstitial Cells of Cajal

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