DIMACS Conference on Linking Mathematics and Biology in the High Schools

April 29 - 30, 2005
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Fred Roberts, DIMACS, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Midge Cozzens, Colorado Institute of Technology, mcozzens@coloradoit.org

Slides:

• Gary Benson, Bioinformatics and Biology, Boston University

  Waiting Time and Seed Selection for Homology Search PowerPoint Presentation

  Waiting time handout

  Excel spreadsheet, computing waiting time for HHH and HHxH

  Building K'NEX DNA models

  L. Charles Biehl, Charter School of Wilmington, DE
  Biomathematics: Using Graph Models for High School

  Kevin DeVizia and Mark Nebzydoski, Delaware Valley High School, Milford, PA
  Probability and Betweenness of Points: The Genetic Ruler

  Kathleen Gabric, Hinsdale Central High School, Hinsdale, IL
  Using Bioinformatics to Make the Bio-Math Connection

  Mike Gargano (with Lorraine Lurie, Lou Quintas, Eric Wahl), Pace University
  An Angiogenesis Model using Graph Theory and the Generalized Ballot Problem

  Alan Hastings, UC Davis
  Quantitative Courses and Training in Mathematical Biology, particularly ecology

  Katherine G. Herbert and James H. Dyer, Montclair State University
  Science Informatics at Montclair State University (Poster Presentation)

  Laurie Heyer, Mathematics, Davidson College
  Bioinformatics? One Minute and One Hour at a Time

  Ben Hughes, Galileo Magnet High School
  Applying Abstract Algebra and Graph Theory to Model Flu Seasons
  (Under the direction of Olgamary Rivera-Marrero, Virginia Tech)

  Eric Jakobsson, Keynote Speaker, Director, NIGMS Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at NIH, and Chair, NIH Biomedical Information Science and Technology Initiative Consortium
  The Interdisciplinary Scientist of the 21st Century

  Linda Lundgren, Glencoe McGraw Hill
  Publishing Bioinformatics in a Well Established Biology Program

  Joseph Malkevich, CUNY
  Teaching Mathematical Biology in High School

  Linda Morris, Jefferson County, Colorado School District
  Cross-Disciplinary High School Teacher Professional Development

  Charles Mullins, Arkansas School for Math, Sciences and Arts, Hot Springs, AR
  Researching the Superstring Problem

  Robert Panoff, Shodor Education Foundation
  Interactive Modeling Environments: Sources and Resources for Quantitative Reasoning in Biology

  Olgamary Rivera-Marrero and Brandilyn Stigler, Virginia Tech
  Reaching the Community with Mathematical Biology (Poster Presentation)

  Christina Sartorio, Seton Catholic High School, Pittston, PA and Zachary Brady, Wyoming Area High School
  Comparison of the Cytochrome Oxidase subunit I Gene in Soldier and Non-soldier Aphids
  (Under the direction of Jim Kupetz, Seton Catholic High School, BMCI 2004 Participant)

  William Sofer, Genetics, Rutgers University
  Learning Science/Mathematics by Doing Science/Mathematics: Genuine Research Projects for High School Students

  James Stevens, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
  A Biology and Engineering Cooperative Project

  DeWitt Sumners, Math and Molecular Biophysics, Florida State
  Developing the new Biomedical Mathematics Major at Florida State University

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