Past MathBio Seminar

Past Mathematical Biology Seminar

Fall 2018 Schedule
Spark (SPRK) Room 233
Tuesday 4:10 - 5:00 PM

Date	Speaker and Title
August 21	Organizational meeting
August 28	Robert Dillon Immersed interface-immersed boundary methods for AC and DC dielectrophoretic particle interaction in a micro channel
September 4	Xiongzhi Chen False discovery rate control for multiple testing with discrete data
September 11	No seminar
September 18	Damiloa Olabode (Ph.D student in Mathematics) Introduction to stochastic epidemic models
September 25	Chris Kang (Ph.D student in Mathematics) Emergence of diversity in homogeneous coupled Boolean networks
October 2	Mark Schumaker Within-host competition can delay evolution of drug resistance in malaria
October 9	No seminar
October 16	Hong-Ming Yin On a reaction-diffusion system modeling the optimal tumor treatment
October 23	Math Colloquium given by Lawrence Craig Evans (Department of Mathematics, UC-Berkeley) Riccati Equation Methods for Weak KAM Theory
October 30	Andrew Storfer (School of Biological Sciences) Evolutionary genomics of Tasmanian devils and their facial tumor disease
November 6	Yuan Wang Statistical Learning for Tree-Structured Data
November 13	Audrey Fu (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Idaho) Imputation of single-cell gene expression with an autoencoder neural network
November 20	Thanksgiving Holidays
November 27	No seminar
Deccember 4	Elizabeth Amona (Ph.D student in Mathematics) Modelling Ponzi Scheme Propagation Dynamics: An Epidemiological Approach

Spring 2018 Schedule
Smith Ctr for Undergrad Education (CUE) Room 316
Tuesday 4:10 - 5:00 PM

Date	Speaker and Title
January 9	Organizational meeting
January 16	No Seminar
January 23	Richard Gomulkiewicz (School of Biological Sciences) How much does evolution delay extinction when it cannot be avoided?
January 30	Xueying Wang Epidemic dynamics of cholera in non-homogeneous environments
Feburary 6	James Bull (Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin) Genetic Engineering and the Suppression of Pests
Feburary 13	Elissa Schwartz Dynamics of Lentiviral Infection In Vivo in the Absence of Adaptive Immune Responses
Feburary 20	Mark Schumaker Preliminary results on a model of viral infection with both free-virus and cell-to-cell infectivity
Feburary 27	No Seminar
March 6	Robert Dillon Effects of dynein activation and viscosity on the emergent waveform of an elastic, internally-actuated, model flagellum
March 12	No Seminar (Spring Vacation)
March 20	Damiloa Olabode (Ph.D student in Mathematics) Optimal control in HIV chemotherapy with termination viral loads
March 27	No Seminar
April 3
April 10	Ostrom Lecture
April 17	Svetlana Lockwood (Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health) Deep Learning and Bioinformatics
April 24	Valipuram Manoranjan Population Models - Nonlinearity & Dision

Fall 2017 Schedule

Webster (WEBS) Room B8
Tuesday 4:10 - 5:00 PM

Date	Speaker and Title
August 22	Organizational meeting
August 29	Sergey Lapin Mathematical Modeling of Human Eye
September 5	Allison Fisher and Jordan Culp Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
September 12	Xiongzhi Chen The Functional False Discovery Rate with Applications in Genomics
September 19	Elissa Schwartz Free-virus and cell-to-cell tranmission in models of equine infectious anemia virus infection
September 26	Svetlana Lockwood (Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health) Diffusion of Antimicrobial Resistance
October 3	Mark Schumaker Steady State Analysis of an Immune System Model
October 10	Elissa Schwartz The Leaky Pipeline for Women in STEM: Global Challenges
October 17	Hongbo Dong Adaptive Clinical Trial Design, Huge-scale Linear Programs and Non-smooth Optimization
October 24	Matthew Mietchen (CHAI graduate student) Ending the Epidemic: HIV Surveillance Data-to-Care Methods & Other Interesting Tools
October 31	Predrag Tosic (Computer Science Dept, University of Idaho) Canceled
November 7	Adnan Morshed Numerical Study of TGFβ-Smad Dependent Activation of Tumor Microenvironment using Interface Resolved Hybrid Technique
November 14	Andreas Vasdekis (Dept of Physics, University of Idaho) A Random Walk Through Metabolism, as a Matter of Fat
November 21	No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holidays)
November 28	Nikolaos Voulgarakis Mathematical modeling of DNA allostery
December 5	Anders Omsland (Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health) Nutritional and physicochemical requirements for Chlamydia and Coxiella infectivity and replication

Spring 2017 Schedule

Webster (WEBS) Room B8
Tuesday 4:10 - 5:00 PM

Date	Speaker and Title
January 17	Organizational meeting
January 24	Daniel Farber (Department of Plant Pathology, WSU) The Primary Disease Gradient of Wheat Stripe Rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) Across Spatial Scales
January 31	No Seminar
Feburary 7	No Seminar
Feburary 14	Eric Lofgren (Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health) The Patient-Patch: Hospital Epidemiology as an Ecology Problem
Feburary 21	No Seminar
Feburary 28	Nikolaos Voulgarakis Mathematical modeling of DNA allostery
March 7	Lynn Schreyer Modeling the Movement of Mucus in Lungs
March 14	No Seminar (Spring Vacation)
March 21	Prashanta Dutta (School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering) Studying Hypoxia in Microfluidic Environment
March 28	Nina Fefferman from NIMBioS (National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis) will give a talk at Vet School. Title: Wildlife Disease Management Outcomes May Depend on the Mechanism of Host Immune Response Time: 12:10pm Place: ADBF (Animal Disease Biotechnology Building) 1002
April 4	Todd Coffey (CISER) A Comparison of Novel and Common Statistical Methods to Detect Out-of-Trend Stability Results
April 11	Kyle Harrington (Virtual Technology and Design, University of Idaho) Developing Computational Models with Biological Images
April 18	Jan Dasgupta
April 25	No Seminar

Fall 2016 Schedule

Webster (WEBS) Room B8
Tuesday 4:10 - 5:00 PM

Date	Speaker and Title
August 23	Organizational meeting
August 30	Jie Zhao (PhD Student, Mathematics), Mathematical Modeling and Parameter Estimation of Dynamical Cell Signaling Pathways in Fibroblasts
September 6	Xueying Wang, Mathematical Models for the Trojan Y-Chromosome Eradication Strategy of An Invasive Species
September 13	Robert Dillon, Lagrangian Mesh Modeling Viscoelasticity
September 20	Zhiwu Zhang (Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, WSU) Upgrade the Compartments of Mixed Linear Model to Reduce Both False Positives and False Negatives in Gene Mapping
September 27	Yuan Wang, Statistical classification for cancer diagnosis
October 4	Alex Dimitrov, A vector inhomogeneous Poisson process with stochastic gain as a model of multiunit neural activity
October 11	Damilola Olabode (PhD Student, Mathematics) Optimal Control Applied to a Basic Model of Latent Cell Activation of HIV with a Focus on the Comparison of Objective Functions
October 18	Steve Krone (Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho) Does spatial structure mediate bacterial persistence in the presence of phage?
October 25	No Seminar
November 1	Hong-Ming Yin, On a Cross-Diffusion System modeling Vegetation Spots and Strips in Arid Landscape
November 8	Tim Ginn (Deptment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU) Dose-structured population dynamics
November 15	Mark Schumaker, Investigations into a model of Virus / Immune System Dynamics
November 22	No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holidays)
November 29	Ilia Karatsoreos (Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, WSU) Circadian Clocks and Disease: Opportunities for Dialogue between Math and Biology
December 6	Nikolaos Voulgarakis, Cancelled and rescheduled

Fall 2015 Schedule

Jackson Hall (MURW) Room 53
Tuesday 4:10 - 5:00 PM


Date	Speaker and Title
August 25	Organizational meeting
September 1	Cancelled due to a departmental event
September 8	Mohammed Kaabar, Finding the Best Classification Rates for Arabic Sign Language Data using Data Analysis Methods
September 15	Andrew Oster (Department of Mathematics, Eastern Washington University), Laminar Development of the Primary Visual Cortex
September 22	Steve Krone (Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho), Directed evolution of phage lysins: using mathematical models to explore feasibility/design of new antibacterial drugs
September 29	Richard Gomulkiewicz, An empirically based mathematical model for the potential role of masting by introduced bamboos in North American deer mice population irruptions
October 6	Mark Schumaker, Improved Models of Equine Infectious Anemia
October 13	Robert Dillon, Mathematical modeling of sperm and cilia motility
October 20	Haijun Li, Stochastic Ordering of Epidemics Room Change: Neill 5W
October 27	David Wollkind, The Behavior of a Population Interaction-Diffusion Equation in its Subcritical Regime
November 3	Kazuo Yamazaki, Introduction to differential equations perturbed by random noise
November 10	Audrey Fu (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Idaho), Inferring the cell differentiation trajectory from single-cell gene expression data
November 17	Yuan Wang, Statistical Analysis of Complex Data Objects
November 24	No Seminar (Thanksgiving Holidays)
December 1	Elissa Schwartz, Using compartmental and agent-based modeling to understand the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak in Pullman, WA
December 8	Svetlana Lockwood (PhD student, EECS), Application of Topology to Data Analysis

Spring 2015 Schedule

Jackson Hall (MURW) Room 53
Tuesday 4:10 - 5:00 PM

Date	Speaker and Title
January 20	Organizational meeting
January 27	Alex Dimitrov, Invariant Signal Processing in Auditory Biological Systems
February 3	Xueying Wang, M athematical Modeling of Cholera Epidemics
February 10	Cancelled due to a departmental event
February 17	James Kehinde, Analysis of the Transmission of Malaria Parasite
February 24	Nairanjana Dasgupta, A Look at Multiplicity through Misclassification
March 3	Nick Strigul, New Modeling Tools for Scaling Forest Dynamics Within the Hierarchical Patch-dynamics Framework
March 10	Guy Palmer (Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health), Diagnostic Capacity and Vaccine Response in Space and Time
March 17	No Seminar (Spring Break)
March 24	David Wollkind, Vegetative Rhombic Pattern Formation Driven by Root Suction for an Interaction-Diffusion Plant-Ground Water Model System in an Arid Flat Environment
March 31	Krishna Athreya (Room Changed: Webster 11) Introduction to Galton Watson Processes and Coalescence Problems
April 7	Marc Evans, Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Species Richness via Generalized Linear Mixed Models
April 14	Kazuo Yamazaki, Global Well-posedness and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to a Reaction-convection-diffusion Cholera Epidemic Model
April 21	Elissa Schwartz, Identifying the Conditions under which Antibodies Protect Against Infection by Equine Infectious Anemia Virus
April 27	Hannah Callender, (Department of Mathematics, Univ. of Portland) Mathematical Modeling of Integrin Dynamics in Cell Motility: From Stochasticity to Sensitivity
April 28	Jie Zhao, Mathematical Modeling of the Dynamics of the TGF-beta and SDf-1 Signaling Pathways