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Subject: SMB Digest v14i01

SMB Digest  January 2, 2014  Volume 14  Issue 1
ISSN 1086-6566

Happy New Year!  ¡Prospero Año y Felicidad!

Editor: Ray Mejía ray(at)smb(dot)org

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Issue's Topics:
   Minisymposium Proposals: Joint Annual Meeting JSMB/SMB, Osaka
   International Conference & Workshop: Computational Science, June 10-12
   PhD Studentship: Modelling & Analysis of Plant Cell ..., U Dundee
   SMBnet Reminders


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From: Toshiyuki Namba <tnamba@b.s.osakafu-u.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:50 AM
Subject: Minisymposium Proposals: Joint Annual Meeting JSMB/SMB, Osaka

The deadline for minisymposium proposals for the Joint Annual Meeting of
the JSMB and the SMB, Osaka 2014 has been extended until February 28.

We welcome proposals from all areas of the life and medical sciences at
the interface of mathematics and its application to biology.

Those interested in organizing a minisymposium should submit a proposal to
the conference program committee by no later than

  February 28, 2014.

Proposals should be submitted via email:

  jsmb.smb2014.minisympo@gmail.com

For more information please see:
https://sites.google.com/site/jsmbsmbjointmeeting2014osaka/

https://sites.google.com/site/jsmbsmbjointmeeting2014osaka/home/guidelines-for-minisymposia-proposals


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From: Shiflet, Angela B. <ShifletAB@wofford.edu>
Date: Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 3:22 PM
Subject: International Conference & Workshop: Computational Science, June 10-12

The International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2014)
(http://iccs2014.ivec.org/index.html) and the workshop The Workshop on
Teaching Computational Science (http://webs.wofford.edu/shifletab/iccs/),
which will be June 10-12 in Cairns, Australia, have extended the paper
submission deadlines to January 15, 2014. Moreover, there are now three
submission options: full paper, poster presentation with a short paper,
and oral presentation without a paper (abstract only). Please let us know
if you have any questions.

Hope to see you at ICCS,
 
Co-Chairs of ?The Workshop on Teaching Computational Science?:
Angela B. Shiflet, Ph. D. (shifletab@wofford.edu), Wofford College, USA
Valerie Maxville, Ph. D. (maxville@ivec.org), iVEC, Australia
Alfredo Tirado-Ramos, Ph. D. (TiradoRamos@uthscsa.edu), U. of Texas Health
Science Center, USA


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From: Mariya Ptashnyk <mptashnyk@maths.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:02 AM
Subject: PhD Studentship: Modelling & Analysis of Plant Cell ..., U Dundee

A PhD studentship (3.5 years) is available in the Division of Mathematics
at the University of Dundee.

Multiscale modelling and analysis of plant cell signalling processes and
biomechanics

The modelling and analysis of the various interrelated processes involved
in plant development and growth is a fascinating and challenging area of
research in Mathematical Biology.

Plant cells and tissues have a very interesting and complex microstructure
that facilitates control of their biomechanics and anisotropic growth, in
addition highly developed regulatory signalling mechanisms allow immobile
plants to adapt to changing environmental conditions.

The main focus of the research project will be on the development of novel
multiscale mathematical models of the interactions between intra-cellular
signalling processes and biomechanical properties of plant cell walls and
tissues. The project will also involve numerical simulations and multiscale
analysis of the developed models. The analysis of mathematical models will
enable us to identify the influence of microscopic molecular interactions on
the macroscopic behaviour of plant cell walls and tissues. The theoretical
research will be conducted in collaboration with experimental biologists
at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK and the University of Heidelberg,
Germany.

The successful candidate will have a background in mathematics and an
interest in the interface between mathematics and biology. Together with
a Post-Doctoral Fellow and experimental partners, the successful candidate
will form a team investigating the fascinating biochemical and mechanical
proper- ties of plant cells and tissues. Because of EPSRC restrictions,
the full studentships will be available only to UK residents. (For
complete information on students eligibility, please consult the EPSRC
website http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/skills/students/help/Pages/eligibility.aspx).

The studentship is for 42 months.

If you are interested in this PhD position please contact
Dr Mariya Ptashnyk, Division of Mathematics, University of Dundee,
mptashnyk@maths.dundee.ac.uk.

Please include a cover letter, a full CV detailing the taken undergraduate
courses and corresponding grades, as well as contact information of two
referees. 


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