Author Archives: Catherine Crawley

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 →

Posted in awards | Tagged | Comments Off on Best Student Paper: Plant Virus Transmission Dynamics

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 →

Posted in awards, Board | Tagged , | Comments Off on NIMBioS Board Member Receives Nation’s Top Early-Career Award

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 →

Posted in conference | Tagged | Comments Off on All Things MathBio Begins Tomorrow: Babies, Bees & Bieber

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 →

Posted in awards | Tagged | Comments Off on Simberloff Wins World’s Top Prize for Ecology

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 →

Posted in conference, GRAs, postdocs, research, songwriter | Tagged , , | Comments Off on NIMBioS Represents at Evolution 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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on This Week @ NIMBioS: Helping the Dairy Cow

‘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 →

Posted in songwriter | Tagged | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Education/Outreach, REU/REV, undergraduates | Tagged , , | Comments Off on NIMBioS Welcomes New REU Class

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 →

Posted in research | Tagged | Comments Off on Macho versus meek: Mathematical model makes media waves

Literary Rap: NIMBioS Songwriter Raps for English Majors

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

NIMBioS Songwriter-in-Residence Baba Brinkman performed an excerpt from his Rap Guide to the Canterbury Tales for UT English majors during his April residency at NIMBioS. The performance took place in Associate Professor Mary Dzon’s Medieval Literature class. About 30 mostly … Continue reading →

Posted in songwriter | Tagged | Comments Off on Literary Rap: NIMBioS Songwriter Raps for English Majors