NIMBioS 2011 Calendar

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NIMBioS 2011 Event Calendar Archive
January 2011
Jan 1-31	Jay Clark is NIMBioS' Songwriter-in-Residence for January.
Jan 8-10	NIMBioS Working Group: Cross-Topology Registration, 2nd meeting
Jan 11-15	NIMBioS Working Group: Food Web Dynamics, 2nd meeting
Jan 12	NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar: Mark Kirkpatrick, T.S. Painter Centennial Professor, Section of Integrative Biology, Univ. of Texas, Austin Chromosome evolution under local adaptation and sexual conflict*
Jan 19-21	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Solid Tumor Modeling, including a Virtual Poster Session.
Jan 23-25	NCMI/NIMBioS Workshop: Modeling Infectious Disease
Jan 25	NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar: Dr. Tony Jhwueng, NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow Modeling phylogenetic comparative methods with hybridization*
Jan 31-Feb 1	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Bovine Tuberculosis, 2nd meeting
February 2011
Jan 31-Feb 1	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Bovine Tuberculosis, 2nd meeting
Feb 8	NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar: Cristina Lanzas, Epidemiology, Univ. of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medici ne Topic: Transmission and control of foodborne pathogens at preharvest*
Feb 10-12	NIMBioS Working Group: Ecology of Niche Variation, 3rd meeting
Feb 22	NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar:Emily Moran, NIMBioS P ostdoctoral Fellow Topic: Community genetics and global change: Effects of tree genotype and atmospheric pollutants on population and community dynamics*
March 2011
Mar 1	NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar: Peter Hammerstein, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin Topic: Manipulative strategies and their evolution*
Mar 8	NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar: Mark McPeek, David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth Topic: Climate change and how we got the biota we have today*
Mar 16-18	NIMBioS Tutorial: Stochastic Modeling in Biology
Mar 22	NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar: Fred Adler, Depts. of Mathematics and Biology, Univ. of Utah Topic: The virtues of waiting, procrastinating and avoiding conflict*
April 2011
Apr 1-30	Timothy Sellers, lead singer of Artichoke is NIMBioS' Songwriter-in-Residence for April.
Apr 5	NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar: Karen Page, NIMBioS Sabbatical Fellow, Dept. of Mathematics, University College London Topic: Developmental and evolutionary dynamics*
Apr 11-13	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Synchrony in Biological Systems Across Scales
Apr 14-20	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Forest Insects, 3rd meeting
Apr 26-28	NIMBioS Working Group: Optimal Control for Agent-based Models, 1st meeting
May 2011
May 1-31	Kay Stanton, who sings vocals and plays bass, keyboard and guitar with Casper and the Cookies, is NIMBioS' Songwriter-in-Residence for May.
May 9-11	NIMBioS Tutorial: Migration from the Desktop: HPC application of R and other codes for biological research
May 9-11	NIMBioS Working Group: Multi-scale analysis of cortical networks, 2nd meeting
May 16-18	NIMBioS Working Group: Synthesizing and Predicting Infectious Disease while Accounting for Endogenous Risk (SPIDER), 4th meeting
May 16-18	NIMBioS Working Group: Multiscale Modeling of the Life Cycle of Toxoplasma gondii, 1st meeting
May 18-21	NIMBioS Tutorial: Multi-cell, Multi-scale Modeling
May 31-Jul 22	Research Experiences for undergraduates (REU) and veterinary students (REV)
June 2011
May 31-Jul 22	Research Experiences for undergraduates (REU) and veterinary students (REV)
Jun 8-10	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Individual-based Ecology of Microbes – Observations and Modeling
Jun 15-17	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Malaria Modeling and Control
July 2011
May 31-Jul 22	Research Experiences for undergraduates (REU) and veterinary students (REV)
Jul 6-8	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Modeling Johne's Disease
Jul 12-15	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Mathematical Modeling of Metabolism and Body Weight Regulation
Jul 25-Aug 5	Joint 2011 MBI-NIMBioS-CAMBAM Summer Graduate Program
August 2011
Jul 25-Aug 5	Joint 2011 MBI-NIMBioS-CAM BAM Summer Graduate Program
Aug 1-3	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Modeling Renal Hemodynamics
Aug 10-12	NIMBioS Working Group: Gene Tree Reconciliation, 2nd meeting
Aug 15-16	NIMBioS Working Group: Feral Swine/Pseudorabies, 4th meeting
September 2011
Sep 1	Deadline for requests for support for Working Groups, Investigative Workshops, Postdoctoral Fellows, Sabbatical Fellows, and Short-term Visitors
Sep 6 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Seminar. Topic: A local analysis of symmetry breaking with applications to HeLa cell polarization: Theory and experiment*. Speaker: William Holmes (Mathematics, Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of British Columbia). Co-sponsored with UT Math Dept.
Sep 12-15	NIMBioS Working Group: 'Pretty Darn Good' Control: Extensions of optimal control for ecological systems, 1st meeting
Sep 13 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Seminar. Topic: Timescales, multiple stable points, and tipping points*. Speaker: Alan Hastings (Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis)
Sep 15 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Seminar, cosponsored with Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. Location: Toyota Auditorium, Baker Center Topic: The role of bioeconomic modeling in the design and analysis of ecosystem based management policies. Speaker: James Sanchirico (Environmental Science and Policy, Univ. of California Davis)
Sep 22-24	NIMBioS Working Group: Species Delimitation, 2nd meeting
Sep 26-27	NIMBioS Working Group: Suction Feeding Biomechanics, 1st meeting
Sep 27 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Seminar. Topic: Using a matrix population model to understand the short and long-term consequences of wild plants harvest* Speaker: Orou Gaoue (NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow)
October 2011
Oct 11 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Seminar. Topic: Non-random dispersal in intraguild predation communities* Speaker: Dan Ryan (NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Oct 13-17	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Forest Insects, 4th meeting
Oct 20-21	NIMBioS Advisory Board Meeting
Oct 21-22	Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics
Oct 24-26	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Modeling Intracellular Movements
November 2011
Nov 8 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Seminar. Topic: On the number of binary characters needed to recover a phylogeny using maximum parsimony* Speaker: Juanjuan (JJ) Chai (NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Nov 9-11	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Modeling Free-roaming Cats an d Rabies
Nov 22 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Seminar. Topic: Backward bifurcation and periodic oscillations in model for the dymamics of malaria transmission* Speaker: Calistus Ngonghala (NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Nov 30-Dec 2	NIMBioS Working Group: Play, Evolution, and Sociality, 1st meeting
December 2011
Nov 30-Dec 2	NIMBioS Working Group: Play, Evolution, and Socia lity, 1st meeting
Dec 11	Deadline for requests for support for Postdoctoral Fellows (Descriptive flyer)
Dec 13-14	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Bovine Tuberculosis, 3rd meeting
Dec 13-15	NIMBioS Working Group: Optimal Control for Agent-based Models, 2nd meeting

*NIMBioS Tuesday Seminars and Teatime Talks are held at 3:30 p.m. in the NIMBioS Lecture Hall on the 4th floor of 1534 White Ave., Suite 400. Light refreshments will be served starting at 3 p.m.
**NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.