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Poverty and Disease Explored in Essay

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Catherine Crawley

Former postdoctoral fellow Calistus Ngonghala’s essay examining poverty and disease is featured this week in PLOS Biology. Ngonghala and his co-authors explore how coupled models of ecology and economic growth can provide key insights into factors driving the formation and persistence … Continue reading →

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Modeling of Microbial World Comes of Age

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Catherine Crawley

The fruits of the labor of the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Individual-Based Ecology of Microbes: Observations and Modeling appear today in an opinion paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper argues that individual-based models are … Continue reading →

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Testing Protocol Described for Epigenetic Model of Homosexuality

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Catherine Crawley

In a new article released today in BioEssays, the authors that brought the widely circulated article on the epigenetic underpinnings of homosexuality last year provide a new testing protocol for the model. Last year’s study, published in The Quarterly Review … Continue reading →

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Discover Birds Program Makes the Grade

Posted on April 30, 2013 by admin

In light of the success of the Discover Birds program among Tennessee elementary schools, the Tennessee Ornithological Society (TOS) voted at their annual meeting in Knoxville last weekend to order a second printing of the popular Discover Birds activity book. … Continue reading →

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New Publications From NIMBioS: Crops, Ticks & Ocean Viruses

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Several new papers on topics related to land and sea acknowledge the support of NIMBioS. The Ocean Viral Dynamics Working Group has published a paper, “Ocean viruses and their effects on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles,” in F1000 Biology. The … Continue reading →

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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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The Story of a Scientific Collaboration: How One Nature Paper Came to Be

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Catherine Crawley

Having a few linear algebraists as co-workers can come in handy — especially near Halloween — when one is stuck on a knotty mathematical biology problem with no clear solution. This proved to be the case for NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow … Continue reading →

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Get Your Head in the Cloud

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Catherine Crawley

It probably comes as no surprise that the words model and models are the most prominent in the word cloud (above), representing the work of NIMBioS. The word cloud, which was created using Wordle, represents the words used most frequently … Continue reading →

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New NIMBioS Science: Model shows how species can reemerge after collapse

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Catherine Crawley

Species pairs that disappear through hybridization after human-induced changes to the environment can reemerge if the disturbance is removed, according to a new mathematical model that shows the conditions under which reemergence might happen. The study appears in Evolution and … Continue reading →

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