Subject: SMB Digest v12i11
SMB Digest March 14, 2012 Volume 12 Issue 11
ISSN 1086-6566
Editor: Amina Eladdadi eladdada(at)strose(dot)edu
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Issue's Topics:
ToC: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 74, Issue 4
Conference: Statistical Mechanics...., June 4-8, Spain
Conference: Making Biomath Happen, June 13-15, AZ
Summer School: From Nonlinear Physics to Biol.., July 9-21, Corsica
BIOMAT 2012 Symposium: Math. & Comp. Biology, November 7-11, AZ
CfP: SIAM-ACM Symposium on Solid & Physical.., October 29-31, France
CfP: International Journal OF Biometrics & Bioinfromatics (IJBB)
Postdoc: Regulation of endocrine..., Warwick Systems Biology Centre
Postdoc: Math. & Emp. Models of Microbial Evolution, U. of Exeter,UK
Postdoc: Computational Neuroscience at Brown, US
Lectureships in Mathematics & Statistics, U. of Sheffield, UK
Software Engineer in Computational Neuroscience at INRIA, France
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Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:07 PM
Subject: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 74, Issue 4
Volume 74 Number 4 is now available on SpringerLink
IN THIS ISSUE:
Synchrony and Asynchrony for Neuronal Dynamics Defined on Complex Networks
R. E. Lee DeVille & Charles S. Peskin
A Nonlinear Stability Analysis of Vegetative Turing Pattern Formation
for an Interaction?Diffusion Plant-Surface Water Model System in an
Arid Flat Environment
Bonni J. Kealy & David J. Wollkind
The Performance of a Microbial Fuel Cell Depends Strongly on Anode
Geometry: A Multidimensional Modeling Study
Brian V. Merkey & David L. Chopp
The Algebra of the General Markov Model on Phylogenetic Trees and Networks
J. G. Sumner, B. R. Holland & P. D. Jarvis
Implications of Transvascular Fluid Exchange in Nonlinear, Biphasic
Analyses of Flow-Controlled Infusion in Brain
Joshua H. Smith, Kathleen A. Starkweather & José Jaime García
Selecting Against Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens: Optimal Treatments
in the Presence of Commensal Bacteria
Rafael Peaa-Miller, David Lahnemann, Hinrich Schulenburg, Martin
Ackermann & Robert Beardmore
The Influence of Receptor-Mediated Interactions on Reaction-Diffusion
Mechanisms of Cellular Self-organisation
Vaclav Klika, Ruth E. Baker, Denis Headon & Eamonn A. Gaffney
Modeling Optimal Age-Specific Vaccination Strategies Against Pandemic
Influenza
Sunmi Lee, Michael Golinski & Gerardo Chowell
Computational Fluid Dynamics of Fish Gill Rakers During Crossflow
Filtration
Angela Cheer, Samson Cheung, Tien-Chieh Hung, Raul H. Piedrahita &
S. Laurie Sanderson
Persistence in a Single Species CSTR Model with Suspended Flocs and
Wall Attached Biofilms
Alma Masi & Hermann J. Eberl
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Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:00 AM
Subject: Second Call for Contributions: XXIII SITGES CONFERENCE on
STATISTICAL MECHANICS
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
XXIII SITGES CONFERENCE on STATISTICAL MECHANICS:
Understanding and Managing Randomness in Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Sitges, Barcelona, SPAIN, 4-8 June 2012
This is the second announcement and call for contributions to the
XXIII Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, to be held in
Sitges, a charming seaside resort near Barcelona (Spain), from the 4th
until the 8th of June 2012. The title of this forthcoming edition of
the Sitges Conference will be "Understanding and Managing Randomness
in Physics, Chemistry and Biology". In this Science Meeting, we intend
to stimulate the discussion of fluctuation phenomena in small-scale
systems in interdisciplinary science. The Conference Program will
include the following topics: fluctuations in small-scale systems,
nanomachines, artificial nanodevices and nanostructures; fluctuations
in intracellular transport and in biological systems; forces induced
by fluctuations and the Casimir effect; heat radiation at the
nanoscale; aggregation and self-assembly of structures; stochasticity
in materials, and in granular and active matter; fluctuations in
confined systems and in systems with few molecules; mechanisms of
generation and conversion of energy based on the presence of
fluctuations; modelling of non-linear noisy systems. With the
organization of this Conference, we will provide a unique opportunity
to exchange points of view, to promote contacts and new
collaborations, and to create a forum for debate that can help us to
give answers to the many open questions in this vast domain of
interdisciplinary research.
Important Deadlines:
Request for financial support: 23 March 2012
Conference registration for contribution 23 March 2012
Announcement of acceptance of abstracts 16 April 2012
Announcement of financial support 16 April 2012
Early registration fee payment 23 April 2012
Final program communication 2 May 2012
You can register and see the outline structure of this and previous
be updated and completed as the Conference planning proceeds.
If you are interested in presenting a talk (30 min) or a poster
communication, please indicate so in your registration and submit a
single page abstract following the instructions that can be found in
the web page.
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Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:46 PM
Subject: Making Biomath Happen - June 13 to 15, 2012
The National Academy of Sciences call in BIO2010 has led to the
creative energy behind many new innovations in curriculum in
mathematics courses, life sciences courses and interdisciplinary
courses in the undergraduate university curriculum. The University of
Arizona will be hosting a conference in June, 2012 "Making Biomath
Happen". This meeting will address the challenges in bringing the
quantitative education needed to prepare undergraduate students for
the biology of the 21st century .
This two and one half day conference is third in a series. The first
two were hosted by Emory University in 2009, and the University of
Delaware in 2010.
Our keynote speaker is Bill Velez of the University of Arizona who
will speak on "Mathematics: Building Capacity" and our plenary speaker
is Claudia Neuhauser of the University of Minnesota, Rochester.
The conference will host four sessions on the topics - special
challenges for undergraduate education small institutions, - special
challenges for undergraduate education at large institutions, -
bringing students to the math/bio interface early in their university
studies, and - creating a collaborative and mentoring community for
postdocs and junior faculty.
For each, we will hosts panelists that bring a wide variety of
approaches. The session will provide time for an open exchange of
ideas.
The goal of the meeting is to foster a longer term conversation. Thus,
in addition to the workshops, we will have a poster session to entice
a wide variety of approaches to making biomath happen.
Register for the conference at so we know who will be attending
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Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:42 PM
Subject: Summer School: From Nonlinear Physics to Biol.., July 9-21,
Corsica
Summer school"From Nonlinear Physics to Biology and Medicine? Cargèse,
Corsica Date: 9 - 21 July 2012.
We are pleased to invite students and young researchers to the summer
school "From Nonlinear Physics to Biology and Medicine? that will be
held in Cargèse, Corsica from the 9th to the 21st of July, 2012. The
school has an interdisciplinary character focused on physical and
mechanical processes of biological materials, with a particular
interest for biomedical applications. The school is addressed to young
researchers belonging to different scientific vommunities (physical,
mathematical, mechanical, biological) with the aim of enhancing
cultural exchanges of modelling tools and methods to study problems
dealing with biomedical systems.
Further information can be found on the web site:
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Date: Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:47 AM
Subject: BIOMAT 2012 Symposium: Math. & Comp. Biology, November 7-11, AZ
Call for Abstracts - BIOMAT 2012 International Symposium on
Mathematical and Computational Biology
On behalf of the Scientific Advisory Committee of BIOMAT 2012
Symposium, we are pleased to inform that the deadline for Abstract
submission of the BIOMAT 2012 Symposium is April, 09. Authors will
receive a prompt response from the BIOMAT Consortium Referee Board.
The full papers corresponding to accepted abstracts should be
submitted until May, 14, 2012. The previous acceptance of abstracts
is obligatory for the consideration of submitted full papers by the
Referee Board. Accepted full papers will be published as chapters of
the book BIOMAT 2012, a volume of the BIOMAT Annual Series of World
Scientific Co. and indexed at ISI-Web of Science - Conference
Proceedings Citation Index.
We will be also pleased to answer all queries you may have as the
organization of the conference is concerned. The conference activities
are expected to be an excellent opportunity for exchanging scientific
feedback with colleagues worldwide following the fundamental mission
of the BIOMAT Consortium. Looking forward to meeting you in Tempe,
AZ, USA
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Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:23 AM
Subject: CfP: SIAM-ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling
2012 Dijon France
SPM'2012: Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling 2012
The Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling 2012 (SPM'2012), in cooperation
with SIAM and in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH (pending), will be held in
October 29-31, 2012, at the University of Burgundy (la Bourgogne), Dijon, France.
The focus of the conference is on the mathematical and computational issues
that arise in generating, analyzing, and processing geometric information in
applications such as: mechanical design, process planning, manufacturing,
bio-medical, games, animation, geology, and virtual reality.
Please note that the submission deadline is approaching:
Abstract (March 25), then papers (April 2nd).
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:25:46 -0800
Subject: CfP: International Journal OF Biometrics & Bioinfromatics (IJBB)
CALL FOR PAPERS - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETRICS AND BIOINFORMATICS (IJBB)
ISSN: 1985-2347
Volume 6, Issue 3
Computer Science Journals (CSC Journals) invites researchers, editors,
scientists & scholars to publish their scientific research papers in
an International Journal of Biometrics and Bioinformatics (IJBB)
Volume 6, Issue 3.
The International Journal of Biometric and Bioinformatics (IJBB)
brings together both of these aspects of biology and creates a
platform for exploration and progress of these, relatively new
disciplines by facilitating the exchange of information in the fields
of computational molecular biology and post-genome bioinformatics and
the role of statistics and mathematics in the biological
sciences. Bioinformatics and Biometrics are expected to have a
substantial impact on the scientific, engineering and economic
development of the world. Together they are a comprehensive
application of mathematics, statistics, science and computer science
with an aim to understand living systems.
We invite specialists, researchers and scientists from the fields of
biology, computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics and such
related sciences to share their understanding and contributions
towards scientific applications that set scientific or policy
objectives, motivate method development and demonstrate the operation
of new methods in the fields of Biometrics and Bioinformatics.
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Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:56 AM
Subject: Postdoc: Warwick Systems Biology Centre
Warwick Systems Biology Centre- Postdoctoral Fellowship
Temporal regulation of endocrine gene expression - timing in living
cells and tissues.
In this project we will develop a systems biology approach to
understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of prolactin gene
expression in the pituitary gland. The project builds upon an existing
programme that has established a unique and productive collaboration
across three centres, developing combined microscopic and molecular
biological approaches, together with mathematical analysis, and
whole-animal imaging and analysis of inflammatory response. You will
mathematically model the control and development of the
spatio-temporal patterns of prolactin expression in the pituitary
gland. The project is funded by the Wellcome Trust and is a
collaboration between the laboratories of Professor Julian David
(Medical School, Manchester), Professor Mike White (Manchester Systems
Microscopy Centre) and Professor David Rand (Warwick Systems
Biology). The fellows working environment will be in the Warwick
Systems Biology Centre and you will collaborate closely with the
experimental postdocs on the team and will have available a unique set
of spatio-temporal data on gene expression. It is expected that the
successful candidate will have a PhD in an area such as Mathematics,
Statistics, Theoretical Physics, Computer Science, or Engineering or
equivalent. Strong skills in mathematical modelling, stochastic
systems and/or statistical analysis are strongly preferred.
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Date: Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:29 PM
Subject: Postdoc: Math. & Emp. Models of Microbial Evolution, U. of
Exeter,UK
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Mathematical and Empirical Models of
Microbial Evolution
Fixed-term position for 24 months, starting April, 2012
Biosciences, University of Exeter, UK
Funded by EPSRC, we seek an enthusiastic evolutionary biologist or
computational/mathematical modeller to work on microbial adaptation
and evolution in the shared laboratory of Robert Beardmore and Ivana
Gudelj. You should already hold, or be about to complete, a PhD and
the project would start as soon as possible.
Strong statisticians, physicists, engineers, or computer scientists
looking for a change of direction would be of interest to our group as
we have a range of inter-disciplinary projects that require skills
from a multitude of disciplines.
The successful candidate will be able to choose one from a range of
projects, but the main current focus of our group is the evolution of
resistance of microbes in response to antimicrobial drugs and
viruses. Likely projects involve active collaboration with
laboratories at ETH, Michigan, Harvard, Bath and elsewhere and
possible titles are as follows:
(1) Single-cell observations of bacteria in single and
multi-antibiotic environments. (2) Understanding the co-adaptation of
synthetic phage and their pathogenic hosts. (3) The nonlinear
dynamics of gene regulation: how do bacteria decide to move?
A successful candidate with an empirical background will be encouraged
to interact with theoretical researchers already in the group,
conversely an incoming theoretical researcher would have the
opportunity to undertake empirical work in-house.
To apply, send a copy of your CV with a cover letter and the details
There is no closing date, the position will continue to be advertised
until the post is filled.
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Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:35 PM
Subject: Postdoc in Computational Neuroscience at Brown, US
A postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience is available in
to work jointly in the labs of Drs. Stephanie Jones and Christopher
Moore in the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University on the
origin and function of neural rhythms, as part of the Boston Area
Cognitive Rhythms Collaborative (CRC; please see
We seek to train a postdoctoral researcher in biophysically principled
computational neuroscience methods. The trainee will work side by side
with experimentalists to receive interdisciplinary systems level
neuroscience training in the integration of theory and
experimentation. Model development and analysis will be under the
mentorship of Dr. Jones and integration with experimental data under
the direction of Dr. Moore. Fundamental to the research will be the
development of modeling tools to transcend our understanding of
rhythms across electrophysiological scales ? e.g. single units, LFP,
EEG/MEG. The trainee will work amongst the broader community of
researchers integrating theoretical and experimental techniques to
study neural rhythms as part of the CRC.
Qualified candidates should have a strong mathematics background
with experience in dynamical systems methods for simulating neural
circuits. The application deadline for the position is ongoing and
candidates will be considered until the position is filled. Interested
candidates should send a CV, statement of research interests, and
three letters of recommendation sent to Stephanie_Jones@Brown.edu.
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Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM
Subject: Lectureships in Mathematics & Statistics, U. of Sheffield, UK
Lectureships in Mathematics & Statistics
University of Sheffield - School of Mathematics & Statistics
The School of Mathematics and Statistics has a strong research ethos
and includes several research groups with high international
reputation. The School offers MMath and BSc undergraduate courses,
runs a long-established MSc in Statistics and provides service
teaching of mathematics to other parts of the University. Following
significant investment by the Faculty of Science, including new Chairs
in probability and in mathematical biology, the School of Mathematics
and Statistics invites applications for two lectureships with a
starting date of 1 September 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter.
We are looking for candidates with a strong track record of high
quality research in Mathematical Biology, Probability, or another area
linking with existing strengths of the School.
You will be expected to carry out and publish high-quality research in
an area covered by the REF Mathematical Sciences Subpanel, to
supervise postgraduate students and to teach at undergraduate and
postgraduate level.
You will have a PhD in a relevant area of mathematics or statistics,
or be close to completion. You will also have an established record of
high-quality research in your chosen field or be able to demonstrate
strong research potential, as well as excellence in teaching.
Interviews and other selection activities will be held on 25 and 26
June 2012. Candidates will be required to attend on both days. Full
details will be provided to invited candidates.
For further information, and to apply for this job please go to:
Closing Date: 10 April 2012
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:15:57 +0100 (CET)
Subject: Scientific Software Engineer in Computational Neuroscience
Software engineer in computational neuroscience at INRIA in Nancy,
France
A full-time scientific software engineer position is available in the
INRIA-team CORTEX on programming of a visualization tool for
spatio-temporal neural fields. The simulated dynamical model reflects
neural signals observed in general anesthesia. The projects
objective is the coding of an already published numerical scheme and
the development of an open-source software package involving a GUI to
simulate the neural activity. Preferably the software will be
developed in a combination of C/C++ and python, but this choice is not
mandatory.
The position will start summer 2012 and is financed for two years by
the ERC Starting Grant MATHANA.
The optimal candidate holds a degree in computational science,
theoretical physics or applied mathematics with focus on mathematical
programming, dynamical systems or computational neuroscience.
Please send electronically applications including a CV to Dr. Axel
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