DIMACS/BIOMAPS Seminar Series on Quantitative Biology and Epidemiology 2003 -2004

We are pleased to announce the DIMACS/BIOMAPS Seminar Series on Quantitative Biology and Epidemiology. The goal is to present talks on matters relating to disease, its spread, transmission, containment, or related questions, if possible with a computational or mathematical flavor. The series is presented under the auspices of the DIMACS 2002-2010 Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology, and more information can be found at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/SpecialYears/2002_Epid.

The program for the Spring 2004 Semester is now mostly full, but there may be some availabilities, so if you or anyone you know would like to give a seminar, then please contact the organizers, Graham Cormode (graham@dimacs.rutgers.edu) or Patrick DeLeenheer (leenheer@dimacs.rutgers.edu).

The series is being run in conjunction with the BIOMAPS (Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences) Seminar Series here at Rutgers. The main sponsor of each event is listed in the program.

Location and Time

All seminars will be held in 260 Hill Center, Busch Campus at Rutgers University unless otherwise noted. The seminar will be at 1pm, with a brown bag lunch beforehand.

Calendar

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Marcelo Magnasco, Rockefeller University

Title: The Dynamical Basis of Auditory Acuity

Time: Brown Bag Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Monica Driscoll, Rutgers University

Title: Elaborating cellular and molecular mechansims of aging in C. elegans:
lessons and themes from simple old animals

Time: Brown Bag Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Joshua Weitz, Princeton University

Title: Scaling laws in organismal biology: Navigating the morass

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, October 15, 2003

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Boris Kholodenko, Thomas Jefferson University

Title: Molecular and Mechanistic Analyses of Cellular Networks: Can We Navigate Through Molecular Jungles

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University

Title: Modeling and Manipulating EGFR-Mediated Cell Communication in Development

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Sergei Grigoryev, Penn State University Collge of Medicine

Title: Higher-Order Chromatin Structure and Its Implications for Gene Regulation

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Ira Schwartz, Naval Research Laboratory

Title: Non-equilibrium stochastic outbreaks: From prediction to control

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Jonathan Dushoff, Princeton University

Title: Detecting Selection from Patterns of Codon Usage

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, November 19, 2003

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Burkhardt Rost, Columbia University

Title: Evolution teaches predicting protein function?

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Ulf Dieckmann, IIASA, Austria

Title: Spatial complexity in ecology and evolution

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Please note special day for this seminar is Tuesday.

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Horst Thieme, Arizona State University

Title: Competitive dynamics in a model for river blindness with cross-immunity

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Natalia Komarova, Rutgers University

(research in collaboration with A. Soffer, Rutgers University)

Title: Modeling DNA transcription dynamics

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, December 10, 2003

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Reka Albert, Penn State University

Title: Topology and robustness of the segment polarity gene network

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Philip Holmes, Princeton University

Title: Piecewise-holonomic mechanics, hybrid dynamical systems, and escaping cockroaches

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, January 21, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Laura Finzi, University of Milan

Title: Topological Modifications of DNA in Transcriptional Regulation

Time: 12:00 pm

Location: Waksman Institute, Room 1001, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Yuhai Tu, IBM Research

Title: Receptor cross talk and signal amplification: some recent results on signal transduction in
bacterial chemotaxis

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Thursday, February 5, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Santiago Schnell, Oxford University

Title: Reaction kinetics in intracellular environments with macromolecular crowding:
simulations and rate laws

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Peter Thomas, Salk Institute

Title: Inside the Mind of the Amoeba: Simulation and Analysis of Biochemical
Signal Transduction Channels

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Thursday, February 12, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS and the Cell and Developmental Biology Graduate Program

Speaker: Stanislav Shvartsman, Princeton University

Title: Modeling and manipulation of EGFR signaling in Drosophila development

Time: Seminar at 10:00 am

Location: Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, CABM Room 010, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ

(jointly sponsored with the Cell & Developmental Biology Graduate Program)

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Robijn Bruinsma, UCLA

Title: The Physics of Cell Adhesion and Mechano-Sensing

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Rahul Siddharthan, Rockefeller University

Title: PhyloGibbs: A Gibbs sampler for motif detection incorporating phylogenetic information

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, March 3, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Gerard Manning, Rutgers University

Title: Counterion Condensation on Polyelectrolytes: Theory and Applications

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Charles Peskin, NYU

Title: Random Walks of Some Biomolecular Motors

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker:Donald Hoover, Rutgers University

Title: Estimating the Impact of P. Carinii Prophylaxis on HIV Disease

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Robert Miura, NJIT

Title: Modelling Spreading Cortical Depression

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Galit Lahav, Harvard University

Title: Dynamics of the p53-mdm2 feedback loop in living individual cells, and the design-principles of biological feedback

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Peter Wolynes, UC, San Diego

Title: Issues in Stochastic Cell Biology

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center

Title: Noise model and statistical significance in MPSS transcription profiling

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Gerald Manning, Rutgers University

Title: Counterion Condensation and DNA Self-Assembly

Time: Seminar at 4:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Atul Narang, University of Florida

Title: Gradient sensing by eucaryotic cells: Signaling mechanisms and spatiotemporal dynamics

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Hal Smith, Arizona State University

Title: Gene Transfer in Biofilms: a mathematical model

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, May 5, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Mike Tyers, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Canada

Title: How big is big enough? Cell size and commitment to division in budding yeast

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Host: BIOMAPS

Speaker: Vladimir Pavlovic, Rutgers University

Title: Mathematical models for comparative genomics---successes and challenges

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Herbert Hethcote, University of Iowa

Title: Comparison of five new pertussis vaccination strategies

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Host: DIMACS

Speaker: Steven H. Kleinstein, Princeton University

Title: Estimating hypermutation rates during immune responses

Time: Buffet Lunch at 12:30 pm; Seminar at 1:00 pm

Location: Hill Center, Room 260, Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ

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