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Scientific Advisory Committee

The Committee consists internationally recognized mathematical scientists and bioscience researchers from academia and industry. The Committee meets annually to review the institute programs, to suggest and decide on new annual programs, and to give advice regarding programmatic goals.

Current Committee Members

  • Alexander R. A. Anderson, Co-Director of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • Paul Bressloff, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • Thomas Chou, Department of Biomathematics, UCLA (1/1/12-12/31/14)
  • Chris Cosner, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • Domitilla Del Vechio, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT (1/1/13-12/31/15)
  • Gerda deVries, Department of Mathematics & Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • Tim Elston, Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • Nina Fefferman, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers University (1/1/13-12/31/15)
  • Greg Forest, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • James Glazier, Director, Biocomplexity Institute, Department of Physics, Indiana University (1/1/13-12/31/15)
  • Abba Gumel, Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba (1/1/13-12/31/15)
  • Trachette Jackson, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan (1/1/12-12/31/14)
  • Nan Laird, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Harvard (1/1/12-12/31/14)
  • Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • Sharon Lubkin, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • Michael Mackey, Director of the Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine, Department of Physiology, McGill University (1/1/11-12/31/13)
  • Qing Nie, Director, Center for Mathematical and Computational Biology, University of California, Irvine (1/1/13-12/31/15)
  • Jonathan Rubin, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh (1/1/13-12/31/15)
  • Jack Tuszynski, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta (1/1/12-12/31/14)

Past Committee Members

  • Reka Albert, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
  • Linda Allen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University (1/1/09-12/31/11)
  • Adam Arkin Howard Hughes, Medical Institute Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley (1/1/07-12/31/09)
  • Herb Bresler, Department of Health and Life Sciences, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH
  • Mark Chaplain, The SIMBIOS Centre Division of Mathematics, University of Dundee (1/1/08-12/31/10)
  • Thomas Daniel, Biology Department, University of Washington (1/1/10-12/31/12)
  • Mark Denny, Department of Biology, Stanford University (1/1/08-12/31/10)
  • Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
  • Bard Ermentrout, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh (1/1/09-12/31/11)
  • Lisa Fauci, Department of Mathematics, Tulane University
  • Louis Gross, The Institute for Environmental Modeling, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Mathematics Department, The University of Tennessee
  • Shandelle M. Henson, Department of Mathematics and Chair, Andrews University (1/1/12-12/31/14)
  • Sorin Istrail, Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Computer Science Department, Brown University
  • Nicholas P. Jewell, Biostatistics and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, (1/1/07-12/31/09)
  • Kirk Jordan, IBM Computational Biology Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
  • Jim Keener, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
  • Douglas Lauffenburger, Biological Engineering Division, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Suzanne Lenhart, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee (1/1/08-12/31/10)
  • Naomi Leonard (Chair 2011-12), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Princeton University (1/1/09-12/31/12)
  • Mark Lewis (Chair 2009-10), Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta (1/1/07-12/31/10)
  • Andre Longtin, Physics, Center for Neural Dynamics, University of Ottawa, Canada (1/1/10-12/31/12)
  • Gregory Mack, Department of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus OH
  • Paul Magwene, Biology Department, Duke University (1/1/09-12/31/11)
  • L. Mahadevan, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (1/1/10-12/31/12)
  • Philip Maini, Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
  • Claudia Neuhauser, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
  • Karl J. Niklas, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University (1/1/08-12/31/10)
  • Lior Pachter, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley (1/1/08-12/31/10)
  • Alan Perelson, Department of Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Linda Petzold, Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara (1/1/07-12/31/09)
  • Mike Reed, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
  • John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
  • Stephen Ruberg, Department of Clinical Data Technology and Services, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis
  • Steven Rust, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (1/1/09-12/31/11)
  • Stanislav Shvartsman, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University (1/1/08-12/31/10)
  • James Sneyd, Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, New Zealand (1/1/08-12/31/10)
  • Terrence Speed, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
  • John Taulbee, Epidemiology and Biometrics Division, Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati
  • Terry Therneau, Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
  • Frank Tobin, Scientific Computing & Mathematical Modeling, GlaxoSmithKline
  • John Tyson, Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Steven Vogel, Biology Department, Duke University (1/1/07-12/31/09)
  • Michael S. Waterman, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
  • Raimond L. Winslow, Center for Cardiovascular Bioinformatics & Modeling, Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute, and Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering