Monthly Archives: June 2012

This Week @ NIMBioS: Helping the Dairy Cow

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Dairy cows, and other ruminants, are the focus of a new Working Group meeting this week at NIMBioS. The “Within-host modeling of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infections” Working Group focuses on the bacterial pathogen MAP, which causes an intestinal … Continue reading →

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Girls Compare Insect Biodiversity in Smoky Mountain Grasslands

Posted on June 15, 2012 by admin

NIMBioS visited the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont today to help participants in Girls in Science Camp explore insect biodiversity data. The 21 young ecologists — all middle school-aged girls from North Carolina and Tennessee — had collected various … Continue reading →

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‘Better Science Communication Through Hip-Hop’

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Canadian rap artist Baba Brinkman riffed on mathematical biology this spring as NIMBioS Songwriter-in-Residence. In this interview, Baba talks about what it’s like to be the bard of modern biology as resident songwriter at NIMBioS. The video also includes clips … Continue reading →

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Middle School Girls Interview Scientists, Mathematicians at STEM Camp

Posted on June 13, 2012 by admin

NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows, faculty and UTK graduate students answered questions from middle school girls about their lives as female biologists and mathematicians at the Adventures in STEM day camp, held last week on the University of Tennessee (UT) campus. Co-hosted … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Welcomes New REU Class

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

A talented group of eighteen undergraduates arrived at NIMBioS this morning to begin their eight-week immersion at the interface of mathematics and biology in the 2012 NIMBioS Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) . Now in its fourth year, this highly … Continue reading →

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Macho versus meek: Mathematical model makes media waves

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

We were pleased to see Sergey Gavrilets’ research on pair-bonding make a splash this week in media outlets around the world. Gavrilet’s paper spurred some interesting, if not spurious, headlines, from “Caring guys and choosy girls led to monogamy” (COSMOS … Continue reading →

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