Beware the IDEAS of March: Assassinating tyranny in mathematical biology

Saturday, March 16, 2013
Officer's Club
Fort Douglas


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Schedule
9:00 Greeting
Early Morning Talks
9:20 - 9:40 Steve Proulx (University of California at Santa Barbara)
The evolution of dynamic response strategies: Optimal control and gene regulatory network perspectives
9:40 - 10:00 Courtney Davis (Pepperdine University)
Toward a Vaccine: Modeling Shigella Immunity
10:00 - 10:20 Josh Cherry (NIH)
Expression level, evolutionary rate, and the cost of expression
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
Late Morning Talks
10:40 - 11:00 Suma Ghosh (Penn State University)
What's wrong with my fish?
11:00 - 11:20 Amber Smith (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
Viral dynamics of influenza in mice
11:20 - 11:40 Jon Forde (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Immune (un)exhaustion in Hepatitis Delta infection
11:40 - 12:00 Peter Kim (University of Sydney)
Can parochial tendencies of the T party aid in self/nonself discrimination?
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Posters
Early Afternoon Talks
1:30 - 1:50 Brendan O'Fallon (ARUP Laboratories)
Genetic diseases: Beyond Mendel
1:50 - 2:10 Samit Bhattacharyya (Penn State University)
Seasonal forcing of interacting epidemics
2:10 - 2:30 Sean Laverty (University of Central Oklahoma)
Linking the host and the population in modeling infectious disease
2:30 - 3:00 Tea Break
Late Afternoon Talks
3:00 - 3:20 Adam Kay (University of St. Thomas)
Toward an integration of nutritional and evolutionary ecology
3:20 - 3:40 Chris Remien (NIMBioS, University of Tennesee)
You are more than what you eat
3:44 - 4:49 sCienCe sLaM
Open-ended discussion of the recent biological literature
4:50 - 5:00 Closing remarks