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2012 Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology (WYRMB): Schedule

Schedule
Monday, August 27
8:00am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza Hotel (Downtown) to MBI
8:15 - 8:45am Breakfast at MBI
8:45 - 9:00am Welcome and opening remarks
9:00 - 10:00am Ben Bolker: Detectability in ecological systems: three nonstandard examples
10:00 - 10:30am Wanyi Zhu: A stage-structured model of honey bee colony population dynamics assessing impacts of pesticides and other stressors
10:30 - 11:00am Break
11:00 - 11:30am Daniel Munther: Enhanced surveillance on food-borne disease outbreaks: dynamics of cross-contamination via wash procedures
11:30 - 1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:30pm Antonio Bru: Space competition therapy: using neutrophils to combat cancer
2:30-3:00pm Carrie Manore: Comparing the Emergence of Chikungunya to Other Mosquito-borne Diseases
3:00 - 3:30pm Break
3:30-4:00pm Emily Harvey: Multiple time scales and mixed mode oscillations in intracellular calcium dynamics
4:00 - 4:30pm Poster Previews
4:30 - 6:00pm Poster Session I with Reception
6:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI to Crowne Plaza Hotel (Downtown)
Tuesday, August 28
8:00am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza Hotel (Downtown) to MBI
8:15 - 9:00am Breakfast at MBI
9:00 -10:00am Greg Forest: Illustrative examples of building collaborations between mathematics and biology/medicine
10:00 - 10:30am Hana Dobrovolny: Evaluating the efficacy of drug treatment of influenza
10:30 - 11:00am Break
11:00-12:30pm Small groups: career development
12:30-12:40pm Group photo in front of Jennings Hall
12:40 - 2:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-3:00pm Lisette de Pillis: Modeling Cancer Immunotherapy
3:00 - 3:30pm Break
3:30 - 4:30pm Andy Stein: Applying mathematical models for solid tumor growth in the pharmaceutical industry
4:45pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI to Crowne Plaza Hotel (Downtown)
Wednesday, August 29
8:00am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza Hotel (Downtown) to MBI
8:15 - 9:00am Breakfast at MBI
9:00 - 10:00am Ann Rundell: Quantitative Experiment Design for Highly Uncertain Cellular Systems
10:00 - 10:30am Break
10:30 - 11:30am Kirk Jordan: Need for Computational Science & Mathematics to tackle Biological Problems in the Parallel Computing Era
11:30 - 12:00pm Manisha Bhardwaj: Do humans optimally account for visual structure when making decisions?
12:00 - 1:30pm Lunch break
1:30 - 2:30pm Colleen Webb: Using Traits-based Approaches to Understand the Dynamics of Biodiversity and Productivity
2:30 - 3:00pm Jae Kyoung Kim: On the Existence and Uniqueness of Biological Clock Models Matching Experimental Data
3:00 - 3:30pm Break
3:30 - 4:30pm Group discussion
4:30 - 5:00pm Poster Previews
5:00 - 6:30pm Poster Session II with Reception
6:45pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI to Crowne Plaza Hotel (Downtown)
Thursday, August 30
8:00am Shuttle leaves from Crowne Plaza Hotel (Downtown) to MBI
8:15 - 9:00am Breakfast at MBI
9:00 - 10:00am Tom Chou: Statistical Mechanical Approaches to Biology and Medicine
10:00 - 10:30am Suma Ghosh: Effect of immunological defense against vector on disease transmission in Bird malaria
10:30-11:00am Benjamin Pittman-Polletta: A data-driven method for detecting coupling between dynamic biological rhythms
11:30am One Shuttle back to Crowne Plaza Hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)