Subject: SMB Digest v12i14
SMB Digest April 4, 2012 Volume 12 Issue 14
ISSN 1086-6566
Editor: Amina Eladdadi eladdada(at)strose(dot)edu
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Issue's Topics:
Extended Deadline: SMB 2012 Annual Meeting
Workshop: Design, ....in Synthetic Biology, June 11-12, Paris
Conference: BIOMAT 2012..swarms, biofilms, traffic, July 2-7, Spain
Two PhD Studentship, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Postdoc: Quantitative Human Ecology, Ecology Center at Utah State U.
Postdoc: Mathematical Modeling of Dengue Virus Epidemiology, NCSU
Two Research Positions:...Applications to biomedical data, Portugal
Bi-Monthly News from NIMBioS, March-April,Vol 4, Issue 2
SMBnet Reminders
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Date: Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Subject: Extended Deadline: SMB 2012 Annual Meeting
Extended Deadline: Society of Mathematical Biology 2012 Annual Meeting
The 2012 Annual Meeting and associated research and education
conference for The Society for Mathematical Biology will be held in
Knoxville, Tennessee, July 25-28, 2012. The conference theme is
Mathematics and Biology: Interdisciplinary Connections and Living
Systems. The gathering is hosted by the National Institute for
Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) and the University of
Tennessee. The conference will be held at the Knoxville Convention
Center and associated activities will be held at NIMBioS before and
after the conference.
To allow late-breaking submission of abstracts, particularly for
students involved in summer research projects, the Organizing
Committee is extending the deadline for abstract submission for
Contributed Oral presentations until April 13, 2012, and for
Contributed Poster Sessions until June 15, 2012. All abstracts
submitted for Contributed Oral presentations by March 30 will be given
priority. Email acceptance of abstracts submitted by the March 30
deadline will be made by April 13; acceptance for abstracts submitted
by the April 13 deadline will be made by April 27.
For more information and the online abstract submission form, visit
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Date: Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Workshop: Design, Optimization and Control in Systems and
Synthetic Biology, June 11-12, Paris
We invite you to participate to a workshop on design, optimization and
control in systems and synthetic biology in Paris in June 11-12.
Topics of interest include quantitative biology, control and
optimization, deterministic and stochastic modeling, microfluidics and
single cell biology, biological noise, and synthetic biology. In
addition, there will be a specific emphasis on novel approaches for in
silico feedback control of live cells.
The list of confirmed speakers include Gilles Charvin (IGMBC, France),
Hidde de Jong (INRIA, France), Domitilla del Vecchio (MIT), Diego di
Bernardo (Tigem, Italy), Alfonso Jaramillo (ISSB, France), Eric
Klavins (U. Washington, USA), Heinz Koeppl (ETHZ, Switzerland),
Wendell Lim (UCSF, USA), Ariel Lindner (INSERM, France), John Lygeros
(ETHZ, Switzerland), Brian Munsky (LANL, USA), Guy-Bart Stan (Imperial
college, UK), and Ron Weiss (MIT, USA).
More information is available at
Participation is free, but registration is mandatory.
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Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Subject: Conf. BIOMAT 2012 Self-organization and collective dynamics
in the live sciences: swarms, biofilms, traffic
BIOMAT 2012
Self-organization and collective
dynamics in the live sciences: swarms, biofilms, traffic
The conference will be held in Granada (SPAIN), at the Facultad de
Ciencias (Universidad de Granada) in July 2-7, 2012.
There are some registration, and accommodation grants for students
interested in attending BIOMAT 2012.
We have organized during the school a meeting of "young researchers
modeling biological processes". The call to participate in this meeting
is now open.
Program:
* Bellomo, Nicola (Politecnico di Torino, Italy):
On the mathematical theory of the dynamics of swarms viewed as
complex systems
* Bressan, Alberto (Penn State University, USA):
Modeling and optimization for traffic flow
* Degond, Pierre (Université de Toulouse, France):
Mathematical models of collective dynamics in life sciences
* Hemelrijk, Charlotte K. (University of Groningen, The Netherlands):
The Self-organisation of fish schools and bird flocks
* Klapper, Isaac (Montana State University, USA): Microbial communities
* Schadschneider, Andreas (University of Cologne, Germany):
From ant trails to pedestrian dynamics: empirical studies and
cellular automata models
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Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Subject: Two PhD Studentship, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Applications are invited for 2 Ph.D. Studentships on the following areas:
(1) Numerical methods with applications in Astronomy and Astrophysics
(non-stipendiary position)
(2) Numerical methods with applications in Biomathematics
(non-stipendiary position)
The successful candidates should have a solid background in
Mathematics, some experience in programming (particularly Fortran,
Matlab, Mathematica and C) and a strong interest in Numerical
Analysis.
Both positions are available immediately and the deadline for
applications is May 15, 2012.
The application letter should be sent electronically together with a
detailed CV and a brief summary of previous research experience (if
recommendation letters, which will need to be provided prior to the
interview. For applicants outside Greece, interviews will be held via
the internet (e.g. skype).
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Date: Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Subject: Postdoc- Quantitative Human Ecology, Ecology Center at Utah
State University
Postdoctoral Associate - Quantitative Human Ecology Ecology Center at
Utah State University seeks a postdoctoral associate for research
aimed at better understanding the roles of people in ecosystem
dynamics through explicit integration of people (demographics and
behaviors) into models of ecological interactions and dynamics. Data
available for such analyses include archaeological, paleoecological,
historical, and contemporary data from the North Pacific and
Intermountain West. The successful candidate will collaborate with
biological, environmental, social, and physical scientists,
mathematicians, and quantitative biologists. Position is available for
one year. Information and application instructions are available at:
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Date: Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:25 PM
Subject: Postdoc: Mathematical Modeling of Dengue Virus Epidemiology
Postdoc: Mathematical Modeling of Dengue Virus Epidemiology
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The incumbent will work on an NIH-funded project
that will build, test and refine stochastic, spatially explicit,
simulation models that link insect population dynamics and genetics
with human disease epidemiology. We aim to develop a city-scale model
for the transmission of dengue virus, utilizing rich entomological,
epidemiological and human movement data sets from a research
collaboration focused in Iquitos, Peru. A major goal of the work is to
predict the impacts of various interventions (such as conventional
mosquito control, vaccines, and novel transgenic mosquito management
methods) on dengue. The culmination of the project will be the
execution of a large-scale mosquito control study and a comparison
between observed and model-predicted dynamics.
Our major new modeling efforts will be to develop the epidemiological
component of our model and to use parallel computing to increase the
spatial scale of our mosquito population dynamics/genetics models. We
are also interested in building simple spatial and non-spatial,
deterministic models as heuristic tools for better understanding basic
principles, but we are not looking for applicants who are only
interested in working with simple, generic models.
An important part of our project involves field experiments to acquire
data that will inform the structure and parameterization of the
models, and a large-scale mosquito control study to provide data
against which model predictions will be tested. We anticipate that
this position will involve analysis of these and other data, so
statistical experience, particularly involving parameter estimation
and/or uncertainty quantification, would be beneficial. The person in
this position will have the opportunity to travel to Peru and assist
in design of field experiments. Some hands on field-work is also
possible.
The funding for this postdoctoral position is through an NIH research
grant. However, our group also has an NSF-IGERT graduate training
grant titled ?Genetic Engineering and Society: The case of transgenic
pests?. Six students in the first IGERT cohort will focus on
mosquitoes and dengue. The person in this postdoctoral position will
have the opportunity to work with the students and faculty involved in
Qualifications: Training in ecological or epidemiological modeling and
experience with development of computer simulation models. Experience
in C++ would be highly desirable, as would strong statistical skills.
For more details on the project see the following publications:
Magori, K., M. Legros, M. Puente, D. A. Focks, T. W. Scott, A. Lloyd,
F, Gould. 2009. Skeeter Buster: a stochastic, spatially-explicit
modeling tool for studying Aedes aegypti population replacement and
population suppression strategies. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 3(9):
e508. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000508
Xu, C., Legros, M., Gould, F, Lloyd, A. L. 2010.Understanding
Uncertainties in Model-Based Predictions of Aedes aegypti Population
Dynamics. PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis. 4(9):
e830. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000830
Legros, M., Magori, K., Morrison, A.C., Xu, C., Scott, T.W., Lloyd,
A.L., Gould, F. 2011. Evaluation of location-specific predictions by a
detailed simulation model of Aedes aegypti populations. PLoS ONE 6(7),
e22701. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022701
Gould, F., K. Magori, Y. X. Huang 2006 Genetic strategies for
controlling mosquito-borne diseases. American Scientist. 94 (3):
238-246.
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Date: Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:06 AM
Subject: Research Positions: Reusable Deep Neural Networks:
Applications to biomedical data
Two research positions (1 Post-Doc and 1 research assistant) are
"Reusable Deep Neural Networks: Applications to biomedical data". You
can find more details here
and here
or at
The Call is open from March, 27 until April, 9.
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Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Subject: Bi-Monthly News from NIMBioS, March-April,Vol 4, Issue 2
Bi-Monthly News from the National Institute for Mathematical and
Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), March-April 2012 - Vol 4, Issue 2 is
now available at:
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