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Mathematical Biology Journal Club

FALL 2006 semester
Wednesdays at 2:00pm in LCB 218

Wednesday
August 30

Journal Club I + II Organizational Meeting

Wednesday
Sept. 13

JC I: Will Nesse

J. Rinzel and B. Ermentrout
"Analysis of Neural Excitability and Oscillations"
Methods in Neural Modeling, 2nd edition, (1989) Chapter 7, editors Koch and Segev
Link to Citation
Copies are on the shelf in the 3rd floor lounge.

Wednesday
Sept. 20

JC II: Zack Kilpatrick

K. J. Painter, P. K. Maini, and H. G. Othmer
"Stripe Formation in Juvenile Pomacanthus Explained by a Generalized Turing Mechanism with Chemotaxis"
PNAS,(1999) vol. 96, issue 10, 5549-5554, Developmental Biology
Link to PDF

Wednesday
Sept. 27

JC I: Darci Taylor

J.J. Hopfield
"Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.(1982) vol. 79, 2554-2558
Link to PDF

Wednesday
Oct. 4

JC II: Blerta Shtylla

Wollman, Cytrynbaum, Jones, Meyer, Scholey, and Mogilner
"Efficient Chromosome Capture Requires a Bias in the 'Search-and-Capture' Process during Mitotic-Spindle Assembly"
Current Biology (2005) vol. 15, num. 9, 828-832
Link to Paper
Link to Supplement

Wednesday
Oct. 11

JC I: Chris Remien

Gurney, Blythe, and Nisbet
"Nicholson's Blowflies Revisited"
Nature (1980), vol. 287, 17-21
Link to Journal

Wednesday
Oct. 18

JC II: Dane Maxfield

Castellani, Quinlan, Cooper, and Shouval
"A biophysical model of bidirectional synaptic plasticity: Dependence on AMPA and NMDA receptors"
PNAS (2001), volv. 98, no. 22, 12772-12777
Link to PDF

Wednesday
Oct. 25

JC I: Jay Newby

Gierer and Meinhardt
"A Theory of Biological Pattern Formation"
Kybernetik (1972), vol 12, 30-39
Link to PDF

Wednesday
Nov. 1

JC II: Noelle Conforti

Dixit, Layden-Almer, Layden, Perelson
"Modelling how Ribavirin Improves Interferon Response Rates in Hepatitis C Virus Infection"
Nature(2004) vol. 432, 922-924
Link to PDF
Link to html Version

Wednesday
Nov. 8

JC I: Erica Graham

Gandon, Mackinnon, Nee, and Read
"Imperfect Vaccines and the Evolution of Pathogen Virulence"
Nature (2001), vo. 414, p.751-755
Link to PDF
Link to html Version

Wednesday
Nov. 15

JC II: Sean Laverty

Anderson and May
"Vaccination and Herd Immunity to Infectious Diseases"
Nature (1985) vol. 318, 323-329
Link to PDF

Wednesday
Nov. 22

JC I: Brittany Bannish

Purcell
"Life at Low Reynolds Number"
American Journal of Physics(1977), vol 45 pages 3-11
Link to html version
Link to Journal

Wednesday
Dec. 6

JC I: Eli Bogart

Tyson, Chen, and Novak
"Sniffers, Buzzerrs, Toggles and Blinkers: Dynamics of Regulatory and Signaling Pathways in the Cell"
Current Opinion in Cell Biology (2003), vol. 15, pages 221-231
Link to pdf


Past Math Biology Journal Clubs:

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002

Fall 2002

Spring 2003

Fall 2003

Spring 2004

Fall 2004

Spring 2005

Fall 2005

Spring 2006

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