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Emphasis Year Scientific Advisory Committee

The Emphasis Year Scientific Advisory Committee reviews the Emphasis Year Proposals as they evolve and offers suggestions throughout the development of the Emphasis Year. A new Emphasis Year Scientific Advisory Committee is appointed for each Emphasis Year Program.

Emphasis Year Committee 2002-2003

Emphasis Year Committee 2003-2004

Emphasis Year Committee 2004-2005

Emphasis Year Committee 2005-2006

Emphasis Year Committee 2006-2007

Emphasis Year Committee 2007-2008

Emphasis Year Committee 2008-2009

Emphasis Year Committee 2009-2010

Emphasis Year Committee 2010-2011

 


The year on Mathematical Neurosciences 2002-2003 the committee consists of:

Emery N. Brown
Massachusetts General Hospital

Barry W. Connors
BioMed Neuroscience
Brown University

David Kleinfeld
Physics Department
University of California, San Diego

Nancy Kopell
Mathematics Department
Boston University

Gilles Laurent
Biology Department
CalTech

Steve Lisberger
Physiology Department
University of California, San Francisco

 

Miguel Nicolelis
Neurobiology Department
Duke University

Shihab A. Shermma
Electrical Engineering Department
University of Maryland, College Park

Jeff Smith
Laboratory of Neural Control
National Institutes of Health

Jonathan Victor
Weill Medical College
Neurology and Neuroscience Department
Cornell University

Charles Wilson
Biology Department
University of Texas, San Antonio

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The committee for the year on Mathematical Modeling of Cell Processes 2003-2004 consists of:

Michael Andreeff
MD Anderson Cancer Center

David Axelrod
Rutgers University

James Broach
Molecular Biology Department
Princeton University

Fred Cross
Molecular Genetics Department
Rockefeller University

Zbignew Darzynskiewicz
New York Medical College

Victor Di Rita
Microbiology and Immunology
University of Michigan Medical School

 

JoAnne Flynn
Immunology Department
Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Albert Goldbeter
Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Michael Sanderson
Physiology Department
Univ. of Mass. Medical School

Elise F. Stanley
Physiology Department
University of Toronto

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The committee for the year on Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics 2004-2005 consists of:

Andrew G. Clark
Cornell University

J.J. Collins
Center for BioDynamics
Boston University

Sandrine Dudoit
Division of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley

Walter M. Fitch
Ecology and Evolution
University of California, Irvine

Pavel Pevzner
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of California, San Diego

Mark Ptashne
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center

 

Peg Riley
Osborn Memorial Laboratories
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Yale University

David M. Rocke
Department of Applied Science
University of California, Davis

Michael Savageau
Department of Biomedical Engineering & Microbiology Graduate Group
University of California, Davis

Eric Siggia
Department of Physics Center for Studies in Physics & Biology
Cornell University

 

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The committee for the year on Ecology and Evolution 2005-2006 consists of:

Frank Berendse
Natuurbeheer en plantenecologie

Chris Cosner
Department of Mathematics
University of Miami

Marcus W. Feldman
Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University

John Harte
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
Ecosystem Sciences
University of California

Alan Hastings
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
University of California

Suzanne Lenhart
Mathematics Department
University of Tennessee

Simon Levin
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University

 

Peg Riley
Osborn Memorial Laboratories
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Yale University

Montgomery Slatkin
Department of Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley

Günter Wagner
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University

 

 

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The committee for the year on Systems Physiology 2006-2007 consists of:

Larry Abbott
Brandeis University
Department of Biology

Leah Edelstein-Keshet
Mathematics Department
University of British Columbia

A. James Hudspeth
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Jay D. Humphrey
Texas A&M University
Biomedical Engineering



 

Peter J. Hunter
Bioengineering Institute
Faculty of Engineering
University of Auckland

Mike Reed
Mathematics Department
Duke University

S. Murray Sherman
Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Physiology
The University of Chicago

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The committee for the year on Mathematical Bioengineering 2007-2008 consists of:

James Fallon
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
University of California

Eberhard Fetz
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Washington

James Collins
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Co-Director, Center for BioDynamics
Boston University

Joseph Pancrazio
Program Director, Extramural Research Program
NIH/NINDS

Andy Ruina
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University

 

Greg Stephanopoulos
Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering
MIT

Robert Shapley
Center for Neural Science
New York University

Jerrold Vitek
Co-Chairman, Center for Neurological Restoration
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Jonathan Wolpaw
Laboratory of Nervous System Disorders
New York State Department of Health and State University of New York

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The committee for the year on Mathematical Challenges in Developmental Biology 2008-2009 consists of:

Paul Bressloff
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah

Helen Byrne
Centre for Mathematical Medicine
Division of Applied Mathematics
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Nottingham

Mark A.J. Chaplain
Society for Mathematical Biology
The SIMBIOS Centre
Division of Mathematics
University of Dundee

Dirk Drasdo
Mathematical Institute and Center for Systems Biology
Warwick University

Aron B. Fisher
Institute for Environmental Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

Robert A. Gatenby
Departments of Radiology and Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona

Thomas B. Kornberg
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
University of California, San Francisco

 

 

Alex Mogilner
Department of Mathematics and Centre for Genetics and Development
University of California, Davis

Ken Muneoka
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
Tulane University

George Oster
Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology and ESPM
University of California, Berkeley

Jonathan A. Sherratt
Department of Mathematics
Heriot-Watt University

Stephen Small
Margaret and Herman Sokol Associate Professor

Angela Stevens
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

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The committee for the year on Molecular interactions within the cell: Network, scale, and complexity 2009-2010 consists of:

Caricia Claremont
Institute for Physical Sciences & Technology
University of Maryland

Jonathan Howard
Max Planck Institute of
Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Neo Martinez
Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley, CA

Eduardo Sontag
Department of Mathematics
Rutgers University

Alessandro Vespignani
School of Informatics
Indiana University

Marc Vidal
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Andreas Wagner
Department of Biochemistry
University of Zurich

 

 

 

 


The committee for the year on Evolution, Synchronization, and Environmental Interactions: Insights from Plants and Insects 2010-2011 consists of:

Troy Day
tday@mast.queensu.ca

N. Michele Holbrook
holbrook@oeb.harvard.edu

Tim Keitt
tkeitt@mail.utexas.edu

Martin Middendorf
middendorf@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Roger Nisbet
nisbet@lifesci.ucsb.edu

Kevin Passino
passino@ece.osu.edu

Nanako Shigesada
nshigesa@mail.doshisha.ac.jp

Tamas Vicsek
vicsek@angel.elte.hu

Mark Westoby
mwestoby@bio.mq.edu.au

 

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