NIMBioS 2014 Event Calendar Archive

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NIMBioS 2014 Event Calendar Archive
January 2014
Jan 7-9	NIMBioS Working Group: Ocean Viral Dynamics, 4th meeting
Jan 14 Room 205	*NIMBioS Seminar: Sean Hoban, NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow. Topic: How to plan an effective and efficient population genetics sampling strategy
Jan 21-23	Joint NIMBioS/SESYNC Working Group: Integrating Human Risk Perception of Global Climate Change into Dynamic Earth System Models, 2nd meeting
Jan 21-24	NIMBioS Working Group: Optimal Control for Agent-based Models, 4th meeting
Jan 30 noon	*NIMBioS Seminar: Tom Hallam, Emeritus Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics Topic: Reflections
February 2014
Feb 18	*NIMBioS Seminar: Kay Holekamp, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Michigan State Univ. Topic: The evolution of intelligence
Feb 25	*NIMBioS Seminar. Virginia Dale (Oak Ridge National Laboratory Corporate Fellow, Landscape Ecology & Regional Analysis Group) Topic: Incorporating Bioenergy Into Sustainable Landscape Designs
Feb 27	*NIMBioS Seminar. Nicole Mideo (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Toronto) Topic: Explaining the complex lives of malaria parasites
March 2014
Mar 6-8	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Animal Social Networks Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Mar 11-13	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Interface Disease Models Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Mar 13-14	NIMBioS Working Group: Evolution of Institutions, 1st meeting
Mar 17-19	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Vectored Plant Viruses Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Mar 17-21	NIMBioS Working Group: Nonautonomous systems and terrestrial C-cycle, 2nd meeting
Mar 25	NIMBioS Seminar. Eugene Koonin* (Evolutionary Genomics Research Group, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD) Generalization of the Central Models of Molecular Evolution in the (Post) Genomic Era
Mar 26-28	NIMBioS Working Group: Evolutionary Approaches to Sustainability, 1st meeting
April 2014
Apr 1	*NIMBioS Seminar. Yetta Jager (Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; adjunct professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UTK) Topic: Getting the Most Out of Rivers: Sustainable Hydropower Development
April 6-8	NIMBioS Tutorial: Computing in the Cloud
Apr 9-11	NSF Mathematics Institutes present Spring Opportunities Workshop for Women in the Mathematical Sciences Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Apr 15 Canceled	NIMBioS Seminar. Michael Lynch* (Biology, Indiana Univ., Bloomington) Topic: Mutation, Drift and the Origin of Subcellular Features
Apr 21-23	NIMBioS Working Group: Hierarchy and Leadership, 3rd meeting
Apr 24-25	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Modeling Contamination of Fresh Produce Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Apr 28-30	NIMBioS Working Group: Plant-Soil Feedback Theory, 2nd meeting
Apr 28-30	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Predictive Models for ERA Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Apr 30	NIMBioS Seminar. *Leah Edelstein-Keshet (Mathematics, Univ. of British Columbia) Topic: Modeling Chemical Patterns in Cell Motility
May 2014
May 5-8	NIMBioS Working Group: Migratory Habitat, 1st meeting
May 8-10	QUBES Consortium (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) RCN-UBE Meeting
May 12-16	NIMBioS Working Group: Biotic Interactions, 3rd meeting
May 13-16	NIMBioS Working Group: Computational Landscape Genomics, 1st meeting
May 19-21	NIMBioS Tutorial: Parameter Estimation for Dynamic Biological Models
June 2014
Jun 3-5	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Leptospirosis Modeling Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Jun 9-Aug 1	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates and Teachers
Jun 18-20	NIMBioS Tutorial: Algebraic and Discrete Biological Models for Undergraduate Courses Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Jun 23-25	NIMBioS Working Group: Climate Change and Vector-borne Diseases, 2nd meeting
Jun 23-27	Adventures in STEM Camp
July 2014
Jun 9-Aug 1	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates and Teachers
Jul 7-18	Joint 2014 MBI-CAMBAM-NIMBioS Summer Graduate Program: Rhythms & Oscillations
Jul 15	UT STEM Summer Symposium
Jul 20-23	NIMBioS Working Group: Within-host modeling of MAP infections, 4th meeting
Jul 23-25	A BioQUEST Workshop at NIMBioS - Biology by Numbers: Bringing Math to the High School Biology Classroom
August 2014
Jun 9-Aug 1	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates and Teachers
Aug 4-9	NIMBioS Tutorial: Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics
Aug 7, 2pm RM105 Claxton	NIMBioS Seminar. Naveen K. Vaidya (Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Missouri - Kansas City) Topic: Mathematical Modeling of the Within-Host HIV Dynamics
September 2014
Sep 9	*NIMBioS Seminar. Elizabeth Hobson (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Emergent Social Properties and the Evolution of Social Complexity
Sep 11 3:30 Thur	*NIMBioS Special Seminar. Dr. Katsuya Tanaka (Research Center for Sustainability and Environment, Shiga Univ., Japan) Topic: Payment Mechanisms for Managing Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia
Sep 18 3:30 Thur CANCELED	*NIMBioS Special Seminar. Dr. Zhirong Bao (Developmental Biology, Sloan Kettering Institute) Topic: The Making of a Worm: Every Gene, Every Cell, Every Minute
Sep 19-22	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Antimicrobial Resistance Intervention, 1st meeting
Sep 23	*NIMBioS Seminar. Angela Peace (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Stoichiometric Producer-Grazer Models Incorporating the Effects of Food Quality on Grazer Dynamics
October 2014
Oct 7	NIMBioS Seminar. Peter Smouse (Ecology, Rutgers Univ.) Topic: Correlated Biotic and Abiotic Patterns in Embothrium coccineum: Can Embothrium* Survive Patagonian Climate Change?
Oct 13-15	NIMBioS Working Group: Hierarchy and Leadership, 4th meeting
Oct 14-17	NIMBioS Working Group: DEB Model for Trees, 1st meeting
Oct 15-16	Modern Math Workshop at SACNAS 2014.
Oct 20-21	NIMBioS Board of Advisors meeting
Oct 21	*NIMBioS Seminar. Sandy Kawano (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Towards a Unified Approach for Quantifying Phenotypic Selection
November 2014
Nov 1-2	Sixth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology. Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Nov 3-5	NIMBioS Working Group: Plant-Soil Feedback Theory, 3rd meeting
Nov 4	*NIMBioS Seminar. Jake Ferguson (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Stochastic models of populations in fluctuating environments
Nov 7, Fri 9:30-11:00 Hesler 427	*NIMBioS Seminar. Miles Davenport (Centre for Vascular Research, Univ. of New South Wales) Topic: Immune control of malaria: Modelling infection in patient cohorts and in mice
Nov 11	NIMBioS Seminar. *Hanna Kokko (Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, Univ. of Zurich) Topic: Males exist. Does it matter?
Nov 13, Thu 2:00 p.m. Claxton 206	Sigma Xi Lecture: Indrikis Krams (Biology, Tartu Univ., Estonia, and Daugavpils Univ., Latvia) Topic: Reciprocal altruism and empathy in birds
Nov 17-20	NIMBioS Working Group: Evolutionary Approaches to Sustainability, 2nd meeting
Nov 17-21	NIMBioS Working Group: Nonautonomous Systems and Terrestrial C-cycle, 3rd meeting
Nov 18	NIMBioS Seminar. *Robert Boyd (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State Univ.) Topic: Does reciprocity explain human cooperation?
Nov 25	*NIMBioS Seminar. Steven Abel (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) Topic: Deconstructing signal transduction at the cell membrane
Nov 27-28	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Thanksgiving.
December 2014
Dec 2	*NIMBioS Seminar. Ioannis Sgouralis (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Mathematical modeling of renal complications induced by cardiac surgery
Dec 3-5	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Heart Rhythm Disorders Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Dec 22-26	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for winter break.

*NIMBioS Seminars and Teatime Talks are held in Rm. 206, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Light refreshments will be served in the 1st floor visitor breakroom starting 30 min. before seminars.
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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.