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Mathematical Biology Journal Club

Spring 2005 semester

Journal Club I: Wednesdays from 4:15pm -- 5:15pm, LCB 322

Journal Club II: Wednesdays from 2:00pm -- 3:00pm, LCB 322

Journal Club Guidelines


Thursday
January 20

JC I: Molly Kelton presenting

Robert May and George Oster
"Bifurcations and Dynamic Complexity in Simple Ecological Models"
The American Naturalist, Vol. 110(974), (1976), pp. 573-599.
(JSTOR)


Wednesday
January 26

JC II: Amber Smith presenting

Marc Lipsitch
"Measuring and Interpreting Associations between Antibiotic Use and Penicillin Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae"
CID, Vol.32 (1 April 2001), pp. 1044-1054.
(CID)


Thursday
February 3

JC I: Giao Huynh presenting

George Bell
"Predator-Prey Equations Simulating an Immune Response"
Mathematical Biosciences, Vol. 16 (1973), pp. 291-314.


Wednesday
February 9

JC II: Benjamin Sukow presenting

Don Jones, Hristo V. Kojouharov, Dung Le and Hal Smith
"Bacterial Wall Attachment In a Flow Reactor"
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 62(5), (2002), pp. 1728-1771.
(SIAM)


Wednesday
February 9

JC I: Geoffrey Hunter presenting

The Renal Countercurrent Mechanism


Wednesday
February 23

JC II: Nessy Tania presenting

J. P. Keener
"A Model for the Onset of Fibrillation following Coronary Artery Occlusion"
Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Vol. 14, (2003), pp. 1225-1232.
(Preprint)


Wednesday
February 23

JC I: Lindsay Crowl presenting

Linus Pauling
"The oxygen equilibrium of hemoglobin and its structural interpretation"
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 21. (1935), pp. 186-191.


Wednesday
March 9

JC II: Courtney Davis presenting

Glenn F. Webb and Martin J. Blaser
"Mailborne transmission of anthrax: Modeling and implications"
PNAS, Vol. 99 No. 10. (May 14 2002), pp. 7027-7032.


Wednesday
March 9

JC I: Karin Leiderman presenting

M. J. Lighthill
"On the Weis-Fogh mechanism of lift generation"
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 60. (1973), pp. 1-17.


Wednesday
March 30

JC II: Katherine Fitzgerald presenting

Master Thesis outline:
"Unicoloniality, invasiveness, and evolutionary stability"


Wednesday
March 30

JC I: Michael Giessing presenting

Paliwal, Ma, Krishnan, Levchenko, and Iglesias
"Responding to Directional Cues: A Tale of Two Cells"
IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 110(974), (2004), pp. 77-90.
(IEEE)



PAST Math Biology Journal Clubs:

Fall 2001 - Spring 2002

Fall 2002

Spring 2003

Fall 2003

Spring 2004

Fall 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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Department of Mathematics
University of Utah
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