Visiting Graduate Student Fellows at NIMBioS

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NIMBioS has offered fellowships for visits for up to several months by graduate students interested in pursuing research with NIMBioS affiliate faculty, postdoctoral fellows or working group participants. Visiting graduate students will work on-site at NIMBioS. The program is designed to facilitate graduate student training while fostering research at the interface of mathematics and biology. Graduate students at the beginning stages of linking theory and data are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information, click here.

Past Visiting Graduate Student Fellows at NIMBioS

Yaojie Lu (Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Univ. of Western Sydney)

Project Title: Competitive stomatal behaviour

Yaojie Lu is collaborating with NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow Caroline Farrior on a project to develop a method for finding a stomatal conductance function of soil water content.

Visit dates: October 1-December 1, 2015

Summary Report (pdf)

Chris Baker (Quantitative & Applied Ecology Group, Univ. of Melbourne)

Project Title: Optimal control of invasive species eradication with multiple control methods

Chris Baker is collaborating with Paul Armsworth and Suzanne Lenhart on a project to construct a model for invasive species eradication with multiple control methods.

Visit dates: September 1-23, 2014

Paul Blischak (Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State Univ.)

Project Title: Extending the comparative method using explicit models of hybridization with coalescence

Paul Blischak is collaborating on a project with Brian O'Meara and Vasilis Maroulas to extend the comparative method using explicit models of hybridization with coalescence.

Visit dates: August 10-16, 2014

Carolina Guerra Pallares (Bioinformatics, Univ. of Texas, El Paso)

Project Title: Prediction of major histocompatibility complex class II epitopes with sparse representation and logic minimization for multiple alleles

Guerra Pallares is collaborating with Clemente Aguilar on a project to test multiple alleles for predicting epitopes by combining methodologies including logic minimization and sparse representation.

Visit dates: June 16-August 16, 2014

Luis Jover (Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Project Title: Resource transformation by viruses: Linking cellular-level exploitation to ecological dynamics

Luis Jover is collaborating with Alison Buchan and Steve Wilhelm on a project to create a dynamical model to understand the effct of viruses in the recycling of nutrients in the oceans.

Visit dates: March 23-29, 2014

Gang Wu (Chemical Engineering, Washington Univ.)
Project Title: Investigating fungal Rhizopus oryzae growth and morphology in submerged culture with agent-based modeling
Gang Wu will collaborate with with Shi Chen and Cristina Lanzas to develop a mathematical model to simulate the process of Rhizopus oryzae growth in order to investigate how various factors affect morphology.
Visit dates: Nov. 4 - Dec. 12, 2013

Tri Sri Noor Asih (Mathematics, Gadjah Mada Univ.)
Project Title: Mathematical modeling of cervical cancer immunotherapy
Tri Sri Noor Asih will collaborate with Steve Wise on a project to develop a model of cervical cancer immunotherapy.
Visit dates: August 28 - November 30, 2013
Summary Report (pdf)