Memorial article – Dr Garry Odell (1943-2018) By Dr George von Dassow On May 10, 2018 my mentor and friend Garry Odell died after a half-year struggle to slow an advancing liver cancer just long enough for those closest to him to get used to his unavoidable departure. In a…
Memorial article – Dr George Oster (1940-2018) By Dr Padmini Rangamani and Dr Jasmine Nirody George Oster, professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, died on April 15, 2018. His death is a true loss for the scientific community. George was one…
Research interview – Dr Nik Cunniffe By Dr Robin Thompson Robin Thompson talks with Dr Nik Cunniffe, Fellow in Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge, about his research in mathematical epidemiology Your research focuses on mathematical modelling of infectious disease epidemics. How did you get into this field? After…
Research Round-up Dr Jennifer Flegg In this Research Round-up, we feature a recent conference where mathematical biology was promoted, present some research highlights from the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology and draw attention to upcoming special issues to be published in the Bulletin. Conference Report Mathematical Biology at LatMath 2018 at…
Dr Stacey Finley 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology The SMB Annual Meeting is almost here! 8 July 2018 – 12 July 2018. SMB teams up with the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology to organize an international meeting for mathematical biology in Sydney, Australia! The conference, hosted…
Interview with Dr Stacey Finley, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California and co-editor of SMB newsletter Web: csbl.usc.edu/people/principal-investigator/ Twitter: @USCSysBio_Lab What is your current role and how long have you been there? I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the…
Research interview – Dr Nik Cunniffe Dr Robin Thompson talks with Dr Nik Cunniffe, Fellow in Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge, about his research in mathematical epidemiology. Read the interview. Memorial article – Dr George Oster (1940-2018) Drs Padmini Rangamani and Jasmine Nirody have written…