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Mathematical Biology Journal Club

Fall 2004 semester
Thursdays at 2:00pm, LCB 322

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Thursday
September 2

JC I: Nessy Tania presenting

Balth. van der Pol and J. van der Mark
"The heartbeat considered as a relaxation oscillation, and an electrical model of the heart"
Phil. Mag. Suppl., Vol. 6, pp. 763-775


Thursday
September 9

JC II: Amber Smith presenting

Marc Lipsitch
"Vaccination Against Colonizing Bacteria with Multiple Serotypes"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, Vol. 94, (June, 1997), pp. 6571-6576.
(Pubmed)


Thursday
September 16

JC I: Geoffrey Hunter presenting

E. M. Purcell
"Life at low Reynolds number"
American Journal of Physics, Vol. 45, No. 1. (1977), pp. 3-11.
(with Paul Fife's notes from Lighthill on swimming microorganisms.)


Thursday
September 23

JC II: Katherine Fitzgerald presenting

Frederick R. Adler
"The balance of terror: An alternative mechanism for competitive trade-offs and its implications for invading species"
The American Naturalist, Vol. 154, No. 5 (November 1999), pp. 497-509.
(AmNat Online)


Thursday
September 30

JC I: Karin Leiderman presenting: Part I

Aaron L. Fogelson and Andrew L. Kuharsky
"Membrane Binding-site Density Can Modulate Activation Thresholds in Enzyme Systems"
Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 193. (1998), pp. 1-18.


Thursday
October 14

JC II: Nessy Tania presenting

C. C. Mitchell and D. G. Schaeffer
"A two-current model for the dynamics of cardiac membrane"
Bull Math Biol., Vol. 65, No. 5. (Sept., 2003), pp. 767-793.
(Science direct)


Thursday
October 21

JC I: Michael Giessing presenting: Part II

Aaron L. Fogelson and Andrew L. Kuharsky
"Membrane Binding-site Density Can Modulate Activation Thresholds in Enzyme Systems"
Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 193. (1998), pp. 1-18.


Thursday
October 28

JC II: Benjamin Sukow presenting

Edmund J. Crampin, Eamonn A. Gaffney and Philip K. Maini
"Reaction and Diffusion on Growing Domains: Scenarios for Robust Pattern Formation"
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 61. (1999), pp. 1093-1120.


Thursday
November 4

JC I: Giao Huynh presenting

Eric L. Charnov
"Optimal foraging, the Marginal Value Theorem"
Theoretical Population Biology, Vol. 9, No. 2. (1976), pp. 129-136.


Thursday
November 11

JC II: Brendan O'Fallon presenting

Canceled


Thursday
November 18

JC I: Lindsay Crowl presenting

Henning Schmidt and Elling W. Jacobsen
"Identifying Feedback Mechanisms Behind Complex Cell Behavior"
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 4. (2004), pp. 91-102.
(IEEE)


Thursday
December 2

JC II: Courtney L Davis presenting

Wei-min Liu, Simon A. Levin and Yoh Iwasa
"Influence of Nonlinear Incidence Rates Upon the Behavior of SIRS Epidemiological Models"
Journal of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 23. (1986), pp. 187-204.


Thursday
December 9

JC I: Molly Kelton presenting

Roy M. Anderson and Robert M. May
"Population biology of infectious diseases, part I"
Nature, Vol. 280, No. 2. (August, 1979), pp. 361-367.



PAST Math Biology Journal Clubs:

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002

Fall 2002

Spring 2003

Fall 2003

Spring 2004


For more information contact:

Laura Miller, 5-1637
E-mail: miller@math.utah.edu
or
Tom Robbins, 5-1645
E-mail: robbins@math.utah.edu




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