This workshop will tackle a variety of biological and medical questions using mathematical models to understand complex system dynamics. Working in collaborative teams of 4-5, each with a senior research mentor, participants will spend a week making significant progress with a research project and foster innovation in the application of mathematical, statistical, and computational methods in the resolution of significant problems in the biosciences. By matching senior research mentors with junior mathematicians, the workshop will expand and support the community of scholars in mathematical biosciences. In addition to the modeling goals, an aim of this workshop is to foster research collaboration among women in mathematical biology. Results from the workshop will be published in a peer-reviewed volume, highlighting the contributions of the newly-formed collaborative groups. Previous workshops in this series have occurred at IMA and NIMBioS.
This workshop will have a special format designed to facilitate effective collaborations.
Six senior women working in mathematical biology will present a problem and lead a research group.
Each group leader will choose a more junior co-leader, someone with whom they do not have a long-standing collaboration, but who has enough experience to take on a leadership role.
Additional team members will be chosen from applicants and invitees. We anticipate a total of five or six people per group.
It is expected that each group will continue to work on their project together after the workshop, and that they will submit results to the Proceedings volume for the workshop.
The benefit of such a structured program with leaders, projects and working groups planned in advance is based on the successful WIN, Women In Numbers, conferences and is intended to provide vertically integrated mentoring: senior women will meet, mentor, and collaborate with the brightest young women in their field on a part of their research agenda of their choosing, and junior women and graduate students will develop their network of colleagues and supporters and encounter important new research areas to work in, thereby fostering a successful research career. This workshop is sponsored in part by Microsoft Research.
This workshop is partially supported by NSF-HRD 1500481 - AWM ADVANCE grant.
Organizers
Ami Radunskaya
Mathematics
Pomona College
aradunskaya@pomona.edu
Rebecca Segal
Mathematics
Virginia Commonwealth University
rasegal@vcu.edu
Blerta Shtylla
Mathematics
Pomona College
shtyllab@pomona.edu
Participants
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Linda Allen | linda.j.allen@ttu.edu | Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University |
| Catalina Anghel | catalina.anghel@alum.utoronto.ca | Genome Center, University of California, Davis |
| Kellie Archer | archer.43@osu.edu | Biostatistics, The Ohio State University |
| Heather Brooks | heather@math.utah.edu | Mathematics, University of Utah |
| Sarah Bryant | sarahbryant456@gmail.com | Mathematics, Shippensburg University |
| Jen-Mei Chang | Jen-Mei.Chang@csulb.edu | Mathematics and Statistics, California State University, Long Beach |
| Sara Clifton | sclifton@u.northwestern.edu | Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University |
| Amy Cochran | cochraam@umich.edu | Mathematics, University of Michigan |
| Courtney Davis | courtney.davis2@pepperdine.edu | Natural Science Division, Pepperdine University |
| Christina Edholm | cedholm@utk.edu | Mathematics, University of Tennessee |
| Blessing Emerenini | bemeren@ryerson.ca | Biomedical Physics, Physics department, Ryerson Polytechnical University |
| Samantha Erwin | sherwin@vt.edu | Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| Nina Fefferman | nina.h.fefferman@gmail.com | Mathematics and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee |
| Holly Gaff | hgaff@odu.edu | Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University |
| Jill Gallaher | jill.gallaher@moffitt.org | Integrated Mathematical Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center |
| Gabriela Hamerlinck | gaby.hamerlinck@bioquest.org | QUBES, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Inc. |
| Maryann Hohn | Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Baasansuren Jadamba | bxjsma@rit.edu | School of Mathematical Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Virginia Kilikian | virginia_kilikian@brown.edu | Applied Mathematics, Brown University |
| Kamila Larripa | kamila.larripa@gmail.com | Mathematics, Humboldt State University |
| Laura Miller | lam9@email.unc.edu | Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Helen Moore | helen.moore@bms.com | Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Anarina Murillo | amurillo@uab.edu | Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| Angela Peace | a.peace@ttu.edu | Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University |
| Candice Price | cprice@sandiego.edu | Mathematics, University of San Diego |
| Anca Radulescu | radulesa@newpaltz.edu | Mathematics, SUNY at New Paltz |
| Ami Radunskaya | aradunskaya@pomona.edu | Mathematics, Pomona College |
| Marissa Renardy | renardy.1@osu.edu | Mathematics, The Ohio State University |
| Farrah Sadre-Marandi | sadre-marandi.1@mbi.osu.edu | Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University |
| Omar Saucedo | saucedo.10@mbi.osu.edu | Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University |
| Rebecca Segal | rasegal@vcu.edu | Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Leili Shahriyari | shahriyari.1@mbi.osu.edu | Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University |
| Nika Shakiba | nika.shakiba@utoronto.ca | Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (IBBME), University of Toronto |
| Blerta Shtylla | shtyllab@pomona.edu | Mathematics, Pomona College |
| Suzanne Sindi | ssindi@ucmerced.edu | Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced |
| Wanda Strychalski | wanda.strychalski@case.edu | Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University |
| Nessy Tania | ntania@smith.edu | Mathematics and Statistics, Smith College |
| Rebecca Turner | rm.turner@auckland.ac.nz | Mathematics, University of Auckland |
| Amy Veprauskas | aveprauskas@math.arizona.edu | Mathematics, University of Louisiana--Lafayette |
| Xueying Wang | xueying@math.wsu.edu | Mathematics, Washington State University |
| Yangyang Wang | wang.9737@mbi.osu.edu | Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University |
| Ning Wei | nwei@math.duke.edu | Mathematics, Duke University |
| Diana White | dtwhite@clarkson.edu | Mathematics, Clarkson University |
| Nakeya Williams | nakeya.williams@usma.edu | Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy |
| Shelby Wilson | shelby.wilson@morehouse.edu | Mathematics, Morehouse College |
| Karen Wood | kewood@uci.edu | Mathematics, University of California, Irvine |
| Karamatou Yacoubou Djima | kyacouboudjima@amherst.edu | Mathematics and Statistics, Amherst College |
| Wenjing Zhang | wenjing.zhang@ttu.edu | Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University |
| Lan Zhong | lanzhong@udel.edu | Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware |
