{"id":2853,"date":"2016-10-14T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2016-10-14T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T12:00:49","slug":"life-at-the-interface-shared-with-undergraduate-researchers-at-nimbios-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/14\/life-at-the-interface-shared-with-undergraduate-researchers-at-nimbios-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"“Life at the Interface” Shared with Undergraduate Researchers at NIMBioS Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judy Day delivering her featured presentation on “Working @ the Interface: The Challenges and Opportunities of Mathematical Biology”<\/p><\/div>\n

Plenary speakers shared the challenges and rewards of their careers at the interface of mathematics and biology at this year’s eighth annual\u00a0Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keynote speaker\u00a0Jorge X. Velasco Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>\u00a0(Mathematics and Biology,\u00a0Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico)\u00a0kicked off the conference by\u00a0highlighting how the process of abstracting a biological concept into its essential elements is mathematics, not just when the numbers get involved. He went on to demonstrate his process using disease modeling.<\/p>\n

Featured speaker\u00a0Judy Day<\/a>\u00a0(Mathematics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Univ. of Tennessee) told\u00a0students about her work modeling low-dose anthrax exposure and gave advice about what it takes to succeed in collaborative, interdisciplinary work.<\/p>\n

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Leslie Fuentes from Hawaii Pacific University shares her literature review on Using Daphnia to Monitor Water Toxicity.<\/p><\/div>\n

The keynote and featured talk were just two highlights of the conference, which attracted 120 participants. The two-day conference also\u00a0included 31 student poster presentations, 35 student talks, a showcase of graduate school opportunities, a career panel, and lots of networking. Students presented on work ranging from a mathematical model of skeletal muscle regeneration to optimal vaccination strategies for cholera. Students also enjoyed the annual tradition of networking using the game SET<\/a>. Tweets from the conference used the hashtag #nimbiosURC<\/a>. A complete set of photos from the event is available on\u00a0the\u00a0NIMBioS’ flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plenary speakers shared the challenges and rewards of their careers at the interface of mathematics and biology at this year’s eighth annual\u00a0Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics. Keynote speaker\u00a0Jorge X. Velasco Hern\u00e1ndez\u00a0(Mathematics and Biology,\u00a0Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,15,47],"tags":[51,16,102,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}