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Subject: SMB Digest v13i51
SMB Digest December 17, 2013 Volume 13 Issue 51
ISSN 1086-6566
Happy Holidays! ¡Feliz Navidad, Prospero Año y Felicidad!
Editor: Ray Mejía ray(at)smb(dot)org
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Issue's Topics:
MMEMS Workshop: The Systems Biology of Drug Resistance, 19-21 May, UNAM
Meeting: The Mathematics of Brain Dynamics, U Birmingham, 8th April
Bi-Monthly News NIMBioS
AIBS Newsletter: BioScience content for November now online!
COPUS Newsletter
CfA: Computing in the Cloud, NIMBioS Tutorial, April 6-8
Keystone Symposia 2014 Cell Engineering & Stem Cell Joint Conferences
Query: Request for Information about Math Biology Internships/Workshops
Correction: PhD Position, Auckland Bioengineering Institute
Postdoc & Graduate Student Positions: Mathematical Biology, NCSU
SMBnet Reminders
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From: Beardmore, Robert <
R.E.Beardmore@exeter.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:06 AM
Subject: MMEMS Workshop: The Systems Biology of Drug Resistance, 19-21 May, UNAM
A MMEMS workshop: The Systems Biology of Drug Resistance
This message is to inform you of an inter-disciplinary meeting funded by
EPSRC on the theme of drug resistance, to be held on Mon, Tue, Wed 19-21st
May, 2014 in UNAM, Mexico (
http://www.morelos.unam.mx ).
Reflecting the importance of the different disciplines needed to tackle the
problem of drug resistance, our invited speakers represent a wide range of
methodological approaches.
With an emphasis on the relevance to past but also potential future
clinical studies, speakers will address different aspects of the resistance
problem. Topics for discussion include antibiotic discovery (JL), antibiotic
stewardship in the clinic (JI), rapid pathogen diagnosis (DP), bioinformatics
approaches to clinical resistance adaptation (TaLi), reduced-dose trials
using malaria in vivo models (AR), in vitro models of resistance adaptation
(MB) studied using ideas from systems biology (IG, TLu), in addition to
theoretical, epidemiological modelling (CCC).
Invited speakers:
Tim Lu, MIT
Joseph Lehar, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Andrew Read, Penn State
Miriam Barlow, UC Merced
Carlos Castillo Chavez, SU Arizona
Ivana Gudelj, Exeter University
Jon Iredell, Sydney Medical School
David Perlin, Rutgers NJ Medical School
Tami Lieberman, Harvard Medical School
If you would like to attend the meeting and contribute, a limited number
of time slots have been allocated to 15 minute talks. A poster wall will
also be available.
The meeting website will soon have full details:
http://www.mmems.org
To register your interest and so reserve a place, please email the organisers
with the subject line "SBDR:talk", "SBDR:poster" or "SBDR:neither"
There will be a registration charge of $50 to cover coffee breaks and
several workshop-related expenses. (This may be reduced if attendance is
sufficiently high.)
Robert Beardmore, Exeter University (
r.e.beardmore@exeter.ac.uk )
Rafael Pena-Miller, Oxford University/UNAM (
rafael.pena-miller@zoo.ox.ac.uk )
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From: Stephen Coombes <
Stephen.Coombes@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Subject: Meeting: The Mathematics of Brain Dynamics, U Birmingham, 8th April
Dear All
This is the first announcement of a one-day meeting, "The Mathematics of
Brain Dynamics", to be held in the School of Mathematics at the University
of Birmingham on Tuesday 8th April 2014. The focus of the meeting will
be on the important role that mathematics has to play in determining the
functional roles of brain oscillations and rhythms.
The invited speakers include
Peter Ashwin, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
University of Exeter
Marc Goodfellow, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Jaroslav Hlinka, Department of Nonlinear Modeling, Academy of Sciences of the
Czech Republic
Zoe Kourtzi, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
John Terry, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences,
University of Exeter
Yulia Timofeeva, Centre for Complexity Science, Mathematics Institute,
University of Warwick
Kyle Wedgwood, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham
This meeting will be supported by a Scheme 1 grant from the LMS who will
provide some support for travel for research students. There will be a
small registration fee of £10 and further details on how to register will
be sent in the new year. They will also appear, along with further details,
on the webpage
http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.Nicks/meeting.html
Wishing you a very happy Christmas and hope to see you in Birmingham in
the new year
Rachel
Dr Rachel Nicks
Lecturer in Mathematics
School of Mathematics
University of Birmingham, UK
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From: NIMBioS <
newsletter@nimbios.org>
Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Subject: Bi-Monthly News NIMBioS
Bi-Monthly News from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological
Synthesis (NIMBioS)
See
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs105/1102610363105/archive/1115847454482.html
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From: AIBS <
dbosnjak@aibs.org>
Date: Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:32 AM
Subject: AIBS Newsletter: BioScience content for November now online!
See
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=0a96724a8e&e=15cb51810b
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From: COPUS News Letter <
admin@copusproject.org>
Date: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:31 AM
Subject: COPUS Newsletter
See
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=a2886d199362c2554974f78af&id=770e2c78ad&e=00cceca591
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From: Catherine Crawley <
ccrawley@nimbios.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:36 PM
Subject: CfA: Computing in the Cloud, NIMBioS Tutorial, April 6-8
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
is now accepting applications for its Tutorial, "Computing in the Cloud,"
to be held April 6-8, 2014, at NIMBioS.
Objectives: This workshop will bring together a diverse set of computational
biologists and modelers who want to expand their expertise and learn how
to harness big data and computation using the R language.
A wide range of HPC/Cluster/Cloud computing resources exist and are
accessible to researchers, such as Amazon EC2, NSF XSEDE, local clusters,
and simple multiprocessor shared memory machines. Participants will learn
about the strengths and weaknesses of the various platforms and how to
enable R to utilize them. The strengths and limitations of R for big data
and big computation will also be discussed. Moving beyond these basics,
further sessions will provide participants with hands on experience in the
following areas:
* Learn about the packages, tools, and data structures that are available
in R for computing on HPC resources
* Understand tools such as Rcpp that allow R to easily interface with
compiled code for improved performance
* Handle big matrix computations with the pbdR packages
* Produce elegant, publication quality graphics with the ggplot2 package
In addition to the fundamentals, the workshop will give attendees
a perspective on how these tools can be put to use in biological
research. Tutorial examples will include applications such as Bayesian
mixed models in genomics, phylogenetic biogeography, approximate Bayesian
computation, and multivariate data reduction in ecological models. Finally,
a special session on teaching with R will provide insights on how to bring
computational science research into the undergraduate classroom.
This hands-on workshop will give participants an opportunity to begin
applying these tools to their own problems. Presentations and sample codes
will be available for all tutorial sessions. Attendees will also have time
to consult with presenters and platform experts to identify the right tools
for their problems.
Participants should have a solid working knowledge of the R
language. Experience with a lower level programming language (C, C++,
Fortran) will also be beneficial but is not required.
Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Co-Organizers: Russell Zaretzki, Statistics, Univ. of Tennessee; Michael
Gilchrist, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee; Eric Carr,
NIMBioS, Univ. of Tennessee; George Ostrouchov, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
National Institute for Computational Sciences, and Univ. of Tennessee;
and Brian O'Meara, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee
For more information about the tutorial and a link to the online application
form, go to
http://www.nimbios.org/tutorials/TT_cloud
There are no fees associated with this tutorial. Tutorial participation in
the tutorial is by application only. Individuals with a strong interest
in the topic, including post-docs and graduate students, are encouraged
to apply, and successful applicants will be notified within two weeks of
the application deadline. If needed, financial support for travel, meals,
and lodging is available for tutorial attendees.
Application deadline: January 26, 2014
The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
(
http://www.nimbios.org) brings together researchers from around the world
to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to investigate solutions to
basic and applied problems in the life sciences. NIMBioS is sponsored by
the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture with additional support from The
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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From: <
keystonesymposia@keystonesymposia.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:05 PM
Subject: Keystone Symposia 2014 Cell Engineering & Stem Cell Joint Conferences
See
http://www.keystonesymposia.org/views/web/marketing/emails/2014_Z3Z4_Email.html#utm_source=2014Z3Z4email&utm_medium=emaillink&utm_campaign=2014Z3Z4email
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From: Pawan Kumar <
pawank684@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 2:24 AM
Subject: Query: Request for Information about Math Biology Internships/Workshops
I am Pawan Kumar, a final year M.Sc mathematics student in Indian Institute
of Technology, Madras. I want to do my research in the mathematical biology
field. I want to know that is there any Summer-Internship or workshop for me.
Please guide me.
regards
pawan
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From: Gib Bogle <
g.bogle@auckland.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Resent-from:
digest.ray@gmail.com
Subject: Correction: PhD Position, Auckland Bioengineering Institute
Please note that the advert of a PhD Position: Auckland Cancer Society Research
Centre in v13i46 (
http://www.smb.org/publications/SMBnet/digest/v13i46.html)
is for a PhD Position at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute.
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From: Alun Lloyd <
alun_lloyd@ncsu.edu>
Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:47 AM
Subject: Postdoc & Graduate Student Positions: Mathematical Biology, NCSU
Research Training Group in Mathematical Biology at NC State University:
Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Positions Available
We are looking to hire two postdocs and up to five PhD students as part of
an NSF-funded Research Training Group (RTG) in the mathematical sciences at
North Carolina State University (
http://rtg.math.ncsu.edu). Our program,
titled "Parameter Estimation for Mechanistic Biological Models", focuses
on mathematical modeling of biological systems and challenges that arise in
confronting these models with real-world data. Mathematical and statistical
questions of particular interest include parameter estimation, uncertainty
quantification and experimental design. Biological emphases are broad and
are not limited to any particular system or scale of organization, although
current group members focus mostly on physiology (e.g. cardiovascular dynamics
and tissue dynamics) and population biology (e.g. ecology, epidemiology,
evolution and within-host dynamics).
Our RTG involves a number of projects, each of which involve
vertically-integrated teams of faculty, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate
students. Active participation in RTG activities, such as a seminar series
and workshops, is expected.
Graduate Fellowships:
PhD students will be supported on an RTG fellowship, with a competitive
stipend, for up to three years of their PhD program. Each PhD student will
have a primary advisor drawn from the RTG faculty. In addition, students
will receive mentorship from RTG postdocs and will have the opportunity to
work with undergraduate students.
Potential students should apply to one of the participating NC
State PhD programs: biomathematics (
http://www.ncsu.edu/biomath),
mathematics/applied mathematics (
http://www.math.ncsu.edu) or statistics
(
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu), although we anticipate that the majority of
positions will be awarded through the biomathematics program. Each program's
website has further information on their application process and a link
to NC State's online graduate application system. Students who apply to
mathematics or statistics programs should send a separate email to Alun
Lloyd,
alun_lloyd@ncsu.edu, to express their interest in the RTG program.
Postdoctoral Positions:
Each postdoc will have a primary advisor drawn from the RTG faculty, but
will be expected to work with more than one of these groups and contribute
to mentoring group members. RTG postdocs will teach one course per semester
for the mathematics department. Postdoctoral appointments are for three
years, conditional on satisfactory progress. All applicants must hold a PhD
in the mathematical sciences (or in a related discipline) or be a graduate
student who will complete such a PhD before taking up the position. Through
the
mathjobs.org system, applicants should submit a cover letter, CV,
research statement, publication list and arrange to have three letters
of recommendation submitted on their behalf. Appointments will start in
January 2014 or later. We will begin considering applications immediately
and will continue to review applications until both positions are filled.
All applicants (graduate and postdoc) must be US citizens, nationals or
permanent residents in order to be considered for NSF funding.
See
http://rtg.math.ncsu.edu for more details about our RTG and for further
details of these positions. Inquiries may also be directed to Alun Lloyd
(RTG Director):
alun_lloyd@ncsu.edu
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