Monthly Archives: July 2012

Malaria Paper Now Published

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow Calistus Ngonghala’s paper on periodic oscillations in a model for the dynamics of malaria transmission has been published in Mathematical Biosciences. The model differs from standard  malaria models in that the vector behavioral patterns of feeding, egg … Continue reading →

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Best Student Paper: Plant Virus Transmission Dynamics

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

The 2012 Lee Segel Prize for Best Student Paper was awarded to a paper modeling virus transmission dynamics in grasses. The award was presented on Saturday at the 2012 Society for Mathematical Biology conference. “Spatiotemporal Model of Barley and Cereal … Continue reading →

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From Computations to Contra, SMB2012 Deemed Success

Posted on July 30, 2012 by admin

More than 400 researchers attended last week’s annual meeting of The Society for Mathematical Biology held July 25-28 at the Knoxville Convention Center. The theme for the conference was Mathematics and Biology: Interdisciplinary Connections and the Living Systems, and was … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Board Member Receives Nation’s Top Early-Career Award

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS board member Mariel Vazquez, a math professor at San Francisco State University, has been named one of the nation’s most promising young scientists for her work at the interface of mathematics and biology. President Barack Obama named Vazquez as … Continue reading →

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All Things MathBio Begins Tomorrow: Babies, Bees & Bieber

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Breast milk, bumble bees, and even “Bieber Fever” will undergo mathematical analyses at the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, which begins tomorrow and runs through Saturday, at the Knoxville Convention Center. About 400 scientists and undergraduate … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Among the Big Trees

Posted on July 23, 2012 by admin

NIMBioS hit the trail to Albright Grove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park last weekend. The grove is an excellent example of old-growth cove hardwood forest, and includes giant hemlocks and tulip trees. Hikers included a Andrea Pugliese from Trento … Continue reading →

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All Activities Continue as NIMBioS Recovers from Flood

Posted on July 23, 2012 by admin

With a few inconveniences, operations at NIMBioS are continuing normally in the aftermath of last week’s flooding. A fast and heavy downpour on Thursday night, July 19, along with nearby construction that may have disrupted drainage, caused the flooding of … Continue reading →

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Simberloff Wins World’s Top Prize for Ecology

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Congratulations to UT professor and NIMBioS-affiliated researcher Dan Simberloff who has received the world’s pre-eminent prize for ecology and environmental science, the 2012 Ramon Margalef Award for Ecology. The award is presented annually by the Catalonian government in Spain, “to … Continue reading →

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REU’s Present in UT STEM REU Symposium

Posted on July 23, 2012 by admin

Students from NIMBioS’ Research Experience for Underdergraduates (REU) joined undergraduates from colleges and universities all over the country to present their original research in a poster symposium last week in the University of Tennessee’s (UT) Baker Center Toyota Auditorium. The … Continue reading →

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NIMBioS Represents at Evolution 2012

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Current and former NIMBioS researchers gathered in Ottawa last week for the Evolution 2012 conference. It was the first joint congress on evolutionary biology bringing together five professional societies: American Society of Naturalists, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution, European … Continue reading →

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