Mathematical Biology Seminar
Spring Semester, 2002
Wednesdays at 3:05pm in
LCB 323
January
9:
January
16: Tim Elston, North Carolina State University, "The Brownian Ratchet and Power Stroke Models for Post-Translational Protein
Translocation into the Endoplasmic Reticulum"Abstract
January
23: Alexei Koulakov, Physics Department,
University of Utah,"Singularities in Brain Maps"
January
30:
February 27:
March 6:
(No Seminar - SIAM Life Science Meeting in Boston)
March 15: (Note the
unusual day) Charles Wolgemuth, UC Berkeley,
"Towards a physics of cellular motility and morphology" Abstract
March 20:
Alessandra Angelucci,
Dept of Ophthalmology and Visual Science,
Moran Eye Center, "Circuits for spatial integration of information in the primate visual
cerebral cortex",
Abstract
March 27:
Christine Litwin, Pathology, University of Utah,
"Heme Acquisition by Vibrio vulnificus", Abstract
April 3:
Paul Fife, University of Utah, "Spatial effects in discrete time
population models",
Abstract
April 10:
(2:00 pm) Peter Roper (NIH, Bethesda), ``Modelling opioid-mediated bursting in vasopressin cells, or What
goes up must come down'' Abstract
April 17:
Jim Keener,
University of Utah, "The Onset of Fibrillation following a Heart Attack"
April 24:
Nick Cogan, University of Utah, "Maze Solving Amoeboids:
How Smart are They Really?" Abstract
May 1:
Brad Peercy, University of Utah, ``A Model of Border Zone
Arrhythmias'' Abstract
May 13:
John W. Weisel,
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, `` Fibrin, Fibrinolysis, and Platelet Aggregation: New Approaches and
Unexpected Results?'' Abstract
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For more information contact Jim Keener, 1-6089
E-mail:
keener@math.utah.edu