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Mathematical Biology Journal Club

SPRING 2006 semester
Wednesdays at 2:00 pm in LCB 322
Journal Club Guidelines

Wednesday
January 11

JC I: Zachary Kilpatrick

Keener, J. P.
"Waves in Excitable Media"
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics,(December 1980),pp. 528-548.

Wednesday
January 18

JC II: Molly Kelton

Pulliman, Ronald H.
"Sources, Sinks, and Population Regulation"
The American Naturalist (November, 1988), pp. 652-661.
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
January 25

JC I: Noelle Conforti

Anderson, R. M. and May, R. M.
"Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I"
Nature(1979) vol. 280, pp. 361-367

Wednesday
February 1

JC II: Lindsay Crowl

Mukundakrishnan, Ayyaswamy, Risbud, Hu, and Shapiro
"Modeling of Phosphate Ion Transfer to the Surface of Osteoblasts under Normal Gravity and Simulated Microgravity Conditions"
Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci, vol. 1027, pp. 85-98
(Link to PDF, Link to Movie)

Wednesday
February 8

JC I: Blerta Shtylla

Einstein
"Investigations on the Theory of the Brownian Movement"
(Link to Buy Book)

Wednesday
February 15

JC II:Giao Huynh

Holt and Hochberg
"The Coexistence of Competing Parasites. Part II - Hyperparasitism and Food Chain Dynamics"
J. theor. Biol. (1998), vol. 193, pp 485-495
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
February 22

JC I: Dane Maxfield

Peskin and Oster
"Coordinated Hydrolysis Explains the Mechanical Behavior of Kinesin"
Biophysical Journal (1995), vol. 68, num. 4, pp. 202s-210s
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
March 1

JC II: Geoffrey Hunter

James, Nilsson, James, Kjelleberg, and Fagerstrom
"Luminescence Control in the Marine Bacterium Vibrio fisheri: An Analysis of the Dynamics of lux Regulation"
J. Mio. Biol. (2000) vol. 296, pp. 1127-1137
(Link to Article)

Wednesday
March 8

JC I: Sean Laverty


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Wednesday
March 22

JC II: Ben Murphy

Khan, Reynolds, Morrison, and Cherry
"Stochastic modeling of protein motions within cell membranes"
Physical Review E (2005) vol. 71, pp(041915-1)-(041915-7)
(Link to Journal)

Wednesday
April 5

JC II: Berton Earnshaw

Zhabotinshky
"Bistability in the Ca2+/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase-Phosphate System"
Biophysical Journal (2000) vol. 79, pp. 2211-2221
(Link to PDF)

Wednesday
April 12

JC I: Discuss proposed changes to Journal Club

Goulet, Miller, and Leiderman
"New Ideas for Journal Club"
(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

For more information contact:

Laura Miller
5-1637
miller AT math•utah•edu

Dave Goulet (webmaster)
5-7657
goulet AT math•utah•edu

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