Seminars for Biomathematics
Past Events
View Current SemesterDec 4 2024 |
| Bhargav Karamched (FSU) |
| Formulation, Approximation, Reduction: A Journey Through Techniques Used in Stochastic Analysis of Biological Systems |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Dec 4 2024 |
| Noel Milam (FSU Mathematics) |
| Modelling the interaction between the host immune response, bacterial dynamics and inflammatory damage in comparison with immunomodulation and vaccination experiments |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Nov 20 2024 |
| Mike Reed (virtual) (Duke University) |
| Sex Differences in Cell Metabolism |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Most of what we know about human physiology has been derived from clinical studies on men or experimental studies on male rats or mice. For a long time and for many different reasons, physiological re... More |
Nov 20 2024 |
| Greg Owanga (FSU Mathematics) |
| Active licking shapes cortical taste coding |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Nov 14 2024 |
| Sarah Romero (Department of Mathematics, FSU) |
| Modeling Cortical Folding Patterns of the Brain |
| Undergraduate Honors Thesis Defense |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 204A |
The mechanism by which the folds of the brain, called gyri (hills) and sulci (valleys), develop is not yet fully understood. Current hypotheses attempt to explain the folding formation mechanism. One ... More |
Nov 13 2024 |
| Bryce Morsky (FSU) |
| How Reasoning About Errors can Affect Indirect Reciprocity |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Indirect reciprocity serves as a pivotal mechanism in fostering cooperative behaviour within social groups. However, challenges arise in maintaining its effectiveness due to errors in |
Oct 30 2024 |
| Haoyang Qian (FSU) |
| Explosive Opinion Polarization and Depolarization with Nonlinear Incidence |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Oct 30 2024 |
| Martyna Smart (FSU Mathematics) |
| The impact of threshold decision mechanisms of collective behavior on disease spread |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Oct 23 2024 |
| Chris Ryzowicz (FSU) |
| Oscillations in Delayed Positive Feedback Systems |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Oct 23 2024 |
| James Thornham (FSU Molecular Biophysics) |
| Synchronization of pancreatic islets by periodic or non-periodic muscarinic agonist pulse trains |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Oct 9 2024 |
| Malbor Asllani (FSU) |
| Emergence of Power-Law Distributions in Self-Segregation Reaction-Diffusion Processes |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Many natural or human-made systems encompassing local reactions and diffusion processes exhibit spatially distributed patterns of some relevant dynamical variable. These interactions, through self-org... More |
Oct 9 2024 |
| David Wharton |
| Single olfactory receptors set odor detection thresholds |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Oct 9 2024 |
| Julianna Capece (FSU Mathematics) |
| Modeling the Biomechanical Forces and Tensions that Contribute to Cortical Folding in the Human Brain |
| Biomath ATE |
| Time: 1:00pm |
| Location: Zoom |
The outermost layer of the brain’s surface, the cerebral cortex, consists of gyri (hills) and sulci (valleys). In humans, cortical folding begins during the 16th or 17th week of gestation, and the m... More |
Oct 2 2024 |
| Michael Cortez (FSU) |
| A Tour of Research Questions in Epidemiology, Ecology, and Evolution That Can be Answered by Methods from Applied Mathematics |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:15 |
| Location: 306 Love |
Oct 2 2024 |
| Richard Bertram |
| Expansion of scroll wave filaments induced by chiral mismatch |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Sep 25 2024 |
| Bhargav Karamched (FSU) |
| Formulation, Approximation, Reduction: A Journey Through Techniques Used in Stochastic Analysis of Biological Systems |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:15 |
| Location: 306 Love |
Sep 25 2024 |
| Richard Bertram |
| Expansion of scroll wave filaments induced by chiral mismatch |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Sep 19 2024 |
| Youngmin Park (University of Florida) |
| n:m Phase-Locking of Heterogeneous and Strongly Coupled Oscillators |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 1:20 |
| Location: 306 Love |
Sep 11 2024 |
| Nick Cogan (FSU) |
| Biofilm Rheology and Uncertainty |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Sep 11 2024 |
| Bhargav Karamched |
| Local heterogeneities in cardiac systems suppress turbulence by generating multi-armed rotors |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Sep 4 2024 |
| Richard Bertram (FSU) |
| Current Research Topics of the Bertram lab |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Sep 4 2024 |
| Bhargav Karamched |
| Local heterogeneities in cardiac systems suppress turbulence by generating multi-armed rotors |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Aug 28 2024 |
| Richard Bertram |
| Organizational Meeting |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Jul 22 2024 |
| David Wharton (FSU) |
| Investigating Early Olfactory Signal Processing |
| ATE Defense |
| Time: 1:30 |
| Location: 204 Love |
Jul 11 2024 |
| Noel Milam |
| Infection, the Microbiome, and their Possible Impact on Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Progression |
| ATE Presentation |
| Time: 10 AM |
| No location for this even specified. |
Jun 20 2024 |
| Nicole Bruce (FSU) |
| Modeling Synchronization in Pancreatic Islets and Biomarker Discovery in Sepsis |
| Dissertation Defense |
| Time: 10 |
| Location: 102 Love |
Jun 20 2024 |
| Ethan Semrad (FSU Biomath) |
| Metric and Categorical Properties of Hypergraphs with Applications to Ecological Data |
| Ethan Semrad Dissertation Defense |
| Time: 3:00pm |
| Location: Love 102 |
Hypernetworks, sometimes called hypergraphs, generalize the concept of a graph by allowing edges to join any number of vertices, gaining the ability to capture multi-way relationships in data. This hy... More |
Apr 24 2024 |
| Erol Akçay (UPenn) |
| An introduction to social evolution |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom |
This talk will survey the author's research on social evolution. |
Apr 24 2024 |
| James Thornham (FSU) |
| A Multiscale Model of Complex Endothelial Cell Dynamics in Early Angiogenesis |
| Biomathematics Journals |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: 216 Dirac Library |
Apr 17 2024 |
| Martyna Smart (FSU) |
| Coupled dynamics of behaviour and disease |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
The spread of disease is significantly impacted by human behaviour. In particular, homophily ("bird of a feather flock together") and outgroup aversion can affect disease transmission rates and the up... More |
Apr 17 2024 |
| Greg Owanga (FSU) |
| A Mathematical Model of Stroma-Supported Allometric Tumor Growth |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Apr 11 2024 |
| Amelie Thompson (FSU Mathematics) |
| Mathematical Modeling of the Brain |
| Honors In The Major Undergraduate Thesis Defense |
| Time: 3:00 |
| Location: LOV 204A |
The cortical folding of the brain, made up of gyri and sulci, plays a significant role in brain function and is unique to the individual. Abnormalities in cortical folding have been associated with di... More |
Apr 10 2024 |
| Jonathan Engle (FSU) |
| The impact of zealots and consensus makers in voting games |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
The outcome of democratic elections rests on individuals' decision-making that is driven by their varying preferences and sets of information. Individuals may prefer consensus to deadlock, or deadlock... More |
Apr 3 2024 |
| Greg Owanga (FSU) |
| A mathematical model of stroma-supported allometric tumor growth |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Mounting empirical research suggests that the stroma, or interface between healthy and cancerous tissue, is a critical determinate of cancer invasion. At the same time, a cancer cell’s location and ... More |
Mar 27 2024 |
| Christopher Ryzowicz (FSU) |
| Molecular Switch Architecture Determines Response Properties of Signaling Pathways |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Mar 27 2024 |
| Haoyang Qian (FSU) |
| Structure and dynamical behavior of non-normal networks |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
In the last two decades, network science has become known as a critical model for understanding complex systems across a wide range of fields. At its core, network science considers a system as a coll... More |
Mar 20 2024 |
| Townsend Porcher (FSU) |
| A territorial game between wasps |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Experimentalists have observed that male cicada killer wasps (Sphecius speciosus) will redraw the boundaries of their territories to coincide with wooden dowels randomly scattered in a field. This is ... More |
Mar 20 2024 |
| Meghan Peltier (FSU) |
| An Indicator of Crohn's Disease Severity Based on Turing Patterns |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Mar 6 2024 |
| Sarah Williams (FSU) |
| A Turing Mechanism in Order to Explain the Patchy Nature of Crohn's Disease |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Mar 6 2024 |
| Zachary Deskin (FSU) |
| Optimal control and its application to find optimal treatments for HIV-related cancer |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Individuals infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) have a higher risk of developing certain type of cancers, such as Kaposi sarcoma, than individuals not infected with HIV. This is due to th... More |
Feb 28 2024 |
| Helen Moore (University of Florida) |
| Mathematical Optimization of Drug Regimens |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:00 |
| Location: 232 Love |
Improvements in drug regimens can make a difference in both clinical trial success and patient outcomes. Optimal control can be used to mathematically optimize regimens, which can then be tested exper... More |
Feb 28 2024 |
| Helen Moore (University of Florida) |
| Math in the Biopharma Industry |
| Industry Seminar |
| Time: 4:00 |
| Location: 204 Love |
I will discuss several aspects of math modeling jobs in the biopharma industry. This includes the types of problems industry math modelers work on, and how their jobs compare with academic jobs. I wil... More |
Feb 21 2024 |
| James Thornham (FSU) |
| A Multiscale Model of Complex Endothelial Cell Dynamics in Early Angiogenesis |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Feb 21 2024 |
| Austin Orgeron (FSU) |
| Vaccination and the theory of games |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Voluntary vaccination policies are a source of great contention, particularly when individuals weigh self-interests against an already obtained herd immunity. This talk will cover a game theoretical a... More |
Feb 14 2024 |
| Austin Orgeron (FSU) |
| Vaccination and the theory of games |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Voluntary vaccination policies are a source of great contention, particularly when individuals weigh self-interests against an already obtained herd immunity. This talk will cover a game theoretical a... More |
Feb 7 2024 |
| David Wharton (FSU) |
| Allometric scaling laws in biology |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Allometric scaling relations, including the 3/4 power law for metabolic rates, are characteristic of all organisms. This talk will discuss a model of scaling relations that predicts structural and fun... More |
Feb 7 2024 |
| Nicole Bruce (FSU) |
| Differential Equation Model for Central-Place Foragers with Memory: Implications for Bumble Bee Crop Pollination |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Feb 5 2024 |
| Sean Lawley (University of Utah) |
| Stochastics in medicine: Delaying menopause and missing drug doses |
| Special Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 10:30 AM |
| Location: 204A |
Stochastic modeling and analysis can help answer pressing medical questions. In this talk, I will attempt to justify this claim by describing recent work on two problems in medicine. The first problem... More |
Jan 31 2024 |
| Kaylie Green (FSU) |
| Tension-based cortical morphogenesis |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Brain structures change shape dramatically during development. This talk will discuss and review the literature on the tension-based morphogenesis hypothesis, which posits that mechanical tension alon... More |
Jan 24 2024 |
| Nicole Bruce (FSU) |
| Modeling the synchronization of pancreatic islets |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Insulin is secreted in pulses by beta-cells located within regions of the pancreas called islets of Langerhans. The pulsatility is evident in blood insulin measurements, indicating that the islet popu... More |
Jan 24 2024 |
| Bhargav Karamched (FSU) |
| A Neuromechanistic Model for Rhythmic Beat Generation |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Jan 17 2024 |
| Taylor Kessinger (UPenn) |
| Evolutionary dynamics of cooperation via indirect reciprocity |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Virtual (Zoom) |
We live in a society. Societies depend on costly cooperation between unrelated individuals who have little prospect for repeated interactions––and thus little clear incentive to cooperate. How can... More |
Jan 17 2024 |
| Richard Bertram (FSU) |
| Major Depressive Disorder and Bistability in an HPA-CNS Toggle Switch |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Jan 10 2024 |
| Bryce Morsky (FSU) |
| Organizational meeting |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
We will have an organizational meeting for the seminar series this semester. |
Dec 6 2023 |
| Mike Cortez (FSU) |
| Comparing the (different) effects host additions can have on metrics of disease |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV232 |
Most pathogens can infect multiple host species, which means that the loss or addition of a host species can alter levels of disease in the community. I use SIR-type epidemiological models to explore ... More |
Nov 29 2023 |
| Bryce Morsky (FSU) |
| Mathematical ecology of symbionts and hosts |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV232 |
This talk will be a survey of papers on theoretical ecology, particularly covering the interactions of symbionts and hosts. These models have applications to interactions between corals and algae, and... More |
Nov 29 2023 |
| James Thornham (Florida State University) |
| Legends of Biomath: The Final Part |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Nov 15 2023 |
| Malbor Asllani, FSU |
| Optimal neurostimulation strategies for symptom control in neurological diseases |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Many collective phenomena in Nature emerge from the -partial- synchronization of the units comprising a system. In the case of the brain, this self-organized process allows groups of neurons to fire i... More |
Nov 8 2023 |
| Richard Bertram (Florida State University) |
| A Formal Classification of Bursting Mechanisms in Excitable Systems |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Nov 8 2023 |
| Dr. Bhargav Karamched |
| Formulation, approximation, reduction: A journey through techniques used in stochastic analysis of biological systems |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: 232 |
In this talk, I will walk through the typical steps I go through to analyze a problem. To do this, I will consider a simple birth-death process. Such a process has a master equation representation and... More |
Nov 1 2023 |
| Ian Bridges (Florida State University) |
| Abstract Biological Systems as Sequential Machines |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Nov 1 2023 |
| Cagatay Ayhan (FSU Math) |
| Methods in Topological Data Analysis with An Application in Simultaneously Recorded Neural Spike Train Datasets |
| Cagatay Ayhan ATE |
| Time: 2:30 |
| Location: Love 102 |
Extraction of information from datasets that are high-dimensional, incomplete and noisy poses significant challenges. Advanced mathematical techniques are under development to address these. One notab... More |
Nov 1 2023 |
| Malbor Asllani |
| A Glimpse into Network Science: Part III - Graph Laplacian and random walks |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
We will acquaint the audience with the graph Laplacian matrix, presenting it in both its combinatorial and random walk form. We will then delve into its key spectral properties, demonstrating how it s... More |
Oct 25 2023 |
| Dr Bryce Morsky |
| Social dynamics in biological systems |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
This talk will be a survey of several papers in social dynamics of biological systems. I will discuss several mathematical models that feature social phenomena including disease spread, reputations, s... More |
Oct 25 2023 |
| Chris Ryzowicz (Florida State University) |
| Oscillation and Chaos in Physiological Control Systems |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Oct 18 2023 |
| I-Ting Lee (Florida State University) |
| A Reduced Mathematical Model of the Acute Inflammatory Response II. Capturing Scenarios of Repeated Endotoxin Administration |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Oct 18 2023 |
| Bryce Morsky (FSU) |
| Social dynamics in biological systems |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV232 |
This talk will be a survey of several papers in social dynamics of biological systems. I will discuss several mathematical models that feature social phenomena including disease spread, reputations, s... More |
Oct 11 2023 |
| Prof. Naoki Masuda (University of Buffalo) |
| Early warning signals for dynamics on networks |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Complex dynamical systems in biological domains often show sudden major changes, or tipping points, as the system gradually changes. Examples include mass extinctions in an ecosystem, deforestation, a... More |
Oct 4 2023 |
| Nicole Bruce (Florida State University) |
| Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Oct 4 2023 |
| Dr. Malbor Asllani |
| A Glimpse into Network Science: Part II - Growth models |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
In this second part, we will discuss how networks are characterized topologically from a statistical standpoint. Specifically, we will explore scale-free networks as an example. Additionally, we will ... More |
Sep 27 2023 |
| Tristen Jackson (Florida State University) |
| A Mathematical Theory of Visual Hallucination Patterns |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Sep 27 2023 |
| Bryce Morsky (FSU) |
| A survey of evolutionary game theory |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV232 |
Evolutionary game theory is applied throughout biomathematics and economics. In this seminar, I will present some fundamental concepts and survey their applications. Of particular interest will be und... More |
Sep 20 2023 |
| Noel Milam (Florida State University) |
| Drug Resistance in Cancer: Principles of Emergence and Prevention |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Sep 20 2023 |
| Dr. Malbor Asllani |
| A Glimpse into Network Science: Part I - Structures |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Network science has emerged as an interdisciplinary field over the last two decades, primarily concerned with the study of complex systems, particularly in the realm of biology. These networks serve a... More |
Sep 13 2023 |
| Bryce Morsky (FSU) |
| An introduction to (evolutionary) game theory |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV232 |
This talk will provide an introduction to game theory and its applications to solving problems in biology and economics. I will cover fundamental ideas of (evolutionary) game theory, including Nash an... More |
Sep 13 2023 |
| Bhargav Karamched |
| Drug |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Sep 6 2023 |
| Organizational Meeting |
| Biomath |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 0232 |
The organizer will briefly explain the structure of the series of seminars and students will introduce themselves. |
Sep 6 2023 |
| Bhargav Karamched |
| Organizational Meeting |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Apr 26 2023 |
| Audrey Nash (FSU Biomathematics) |
| Mathematical Techniques for Neural Spike Train Differentiation |
| ATE Presentation |
| Time: 9:00 |
| Location: Love 204a |
Information in the brain is encoded in the timing of electrical impulses generated by neurons, or spike trains. The neural code refers to the rules that transform these electrical impulses into percep... More |
Mar 1 2023 |
| Noel Milam (FSU) |
| Dynamical Diseases |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Feb 22 2023 |
| Fan Bai (FSU) |
| Spatial Oscillations |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Feb 15 2023 |
| Nicole Bruce (FSU) |
| Periodic Stimulation of Biological Oscillators |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Feb 8 2023 |
| Tristen Jackson (FSU) |
| Single Pulse Perturbation of Biological Oscillators |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Feb 1 2023 |
| Audrey Nash (FSU) |
| Initiation and Termination of Biological Rhythms |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Jan 25 2023 |
| James Thornham (FSU) |
| Mathematical Models for Biological Oscillators |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Jan 18 2023 |
| Richard Bertram (FSU) |
| Noise and Chaos |
| Biomathematics Journals |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Jan 11 2023 |
| Richard Bertram (FSU) |
| Organizational Meeting |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac library |
Nov 30 2022 |
| Monica Hurdal |
| Mapping the Brain and its Development |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
The human brain is unique in its folding patterns across individuals in the extent, depth, and shape of the cortical folds and valleys. There is no consensus in neurobiology regarding how or where the... More |
Nov 16 2022 |
| Fan Bai |
| Bistability and Noise may Underlie Neuronal Polarization |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Neuronal polarization refers to the common emergence of a single axon and multiple dendrites in a mature neuron from the symmetrically arranged equilateral neurites of a nascent neuron. The polarizati... More |
Nov 9 2022 |
| Mehran Fazli (FSU) |
| Modeling and Multi-Timescale Analaysis of Endocrine Cells: From Single Cell Excitability to Network Synchronization |
| Dissertation Defense |
| Time: 2:00 |
| Location: 353 Love |
Nov 2 2022 |
| Audrey Nash |
| Electrochemical Energy Storage in a Sustainable Modern Society |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Nov 2 2022 |
| Wei Yang (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry) |
| Achieving Long Time-Scale Sampling of Biomolecules: Hidden Barriers and Orthogonal Space Sampling |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
The “slow configuration response” problem has been the bottleneck issue in the field of molecular dynamics sampling. This issue has been significantly limiting actual sampling capability of the en... More |
Oct 26 2022 |
| Mehran Fazli (FSU) |
| Spatial Representation in the Hippocampal Formation: A History |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Oct 26 2022 |
| Mehran Fazli |
| Network Properties of Electrically Coupled Bursting Pituitary Cells |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
The endocrine cells of the anterior pituitary gland are electrically active when stimulated or, in some cases, when not inhibited. The activity pattern thought to be most effective in releasing hormon... More |
Oct 22 2022 |
| Mehran Fazli (FSU) |
| Spatial Representation in the Hippocampal Formation: A History |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Oct 19 2022 |
| Mao Nishino (FSU) |
| Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Cell Therapy--Promises and Challenges |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Oct 19 2022 |
| Bryce Morsky |
| Social Dynamics in Biological Systems |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Oct 14 2022 |
| Research overview |
| Biofluids |
| Time: 11:00 |
| Location: Dirac |
Oct 12 2022 |
| Mike Cortez (Department of Biological Science) |
| Comparing the (different) Effects Host Additions can have on Metrics of Disease |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Oct 5 2022 |
| Nicole Bruce (FSU) |
| A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Oct 5 2022 |
| Richard Bertram |
| Coordination of Islet Oscillations Through Negative Feedback |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Sep 28 2022 |
| Nicole Bruce (FSU) |
| A Programmable Dual-RNA-Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Sep 28 2022 |
| Tom Needham |
| Optimal Transport, Graph Matching Problems and Applications to Biomathematics |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Sep 23 2022 |
| ATE prep and Research Overview |
| Biofluids |
| Time: 12:00 |
| Location: Dirac Conference room |
Sep 21 2022 |
| Nick Cogan |
| Modeling Water Reclamation and Fouling |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Sep 14 2022 |
| Bhargav Karamched |
| The Nature of the Chemical Bond |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Sep 14 2022 |
| Malbor Asllani |
| Self-Organizing Phenomena in Networked Biological Systems |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Sep 9 2022 |
| Fan Bai (FSU) |
| The Principle of Membrane Fusion in the Cell |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Sep 2 2022 |
| Students |
| Biofluids |
| Time: 12 |
| Location: Dirac Conference Room |
Time for students to discuss their work. |
Aug 31 2022 |
| Richard Bertram |
| Venus Flytrap: How an Excitable, Carnivorous Plant Works |
| Biomathematics Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac Library |
Aug 31 2022 |
| Bhargav Karamched |
| Cells, Networks, and Engineering Life: A Journey through Biomath |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 PM |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Aug 26 2022 |
| Cogan |
| Introduction and Elevator talk |
| Biofluids |
| Time: 12 |
| Location: Dirac Conference Room |
Apr 20 2022 |
| Brooke Haywood |
| The Input Functions of Genes: Michaelis–Menten and Hill Equations |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Apr 13 2022 |
| Nicole Bruce |
| Robust Spatial Patterning in Development |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Apr 13 2022 |
| Mao Nishino (FSU Mathematics) |
| Subthreshold Dynamics in Periodically Stimulated Squid Giant Axons |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 202 |
Action potentials resulting from periodic stimulation of nerve axons occur at intervals that are irregular at moderate stimulation frequencies. Histograms of the intervals are multimodal, as seen in s... More |
Apr 6 2022 |
| Mehran Fazli |
| Dynamical Compensation and Mutant Resistance in Tissues |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Mar 30 2022 |
| Tom Needham (FSU) |
| An Introduction to Computational Topology |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 107 |
This will be a joint seminar with the Undergraduate Mathematics Major Seminar. Note the room change. |
Mar 23 2022 |
| Noel Milam (FSU) |
| A Mathematical Model of the Pathogenesis, Prevention, and Reversal of Type 2 Diabetes |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 202 |
The speaker will present the paper of Ha et al. The abstract of the paper follows below: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is generally thought to result from the combination of 2 metabolic defects... More |
Mar 9 2022 |
| Naya Sawah (FSU) |
| Nonlinear Dynamics of Immunogenic Tumors: Parameter Estimation and Global Bifurcation Analysis |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 202 |
The speaker will discuss the paper "Nonlinear Dynamics of Immunogenic Tumors: Parameter Estimation and Global Bifurcation Analysis" by Kuznetsov et al. The abstract of the paper is: We ... More |
Mar 9 2022 |
| Susan Rogowski |
| Robust Signaling by Bifunctional Components |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Mar 2 2022 |
| Fan Bai |
| Kinetic Proofreading and Conformational Proofreading |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Mar 2 2022 |
| Alex Elchesen and Iryna Hartsock |
| Topological data analysis of C. elegans locomotion and behavior |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 302/Zoom |
We will give a brief overview of topological data analysis and how it has been applied to biological systems. We'll then discuss work that we did applying topological data analysis to video of C. eleg... More |
Feb 23 2022 |
| Zachary Deskin (FSU) |
| A Mathematical Recommendation for Short-Term Treatment of HIV |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: 232 |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks white blood cells in our immune system, specifically the CD4+ T cells, which is used to help fight infections. It turns out that people with ... More |
Feb 23 2022 |
| Nicole Bruce |
| How to Build a Biological Oscillator |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Feb 16 2022 |
| Richard Bertram |
| Positive Feedback, Bistability, and Memory |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Feb 16 2022 |
| Margherita Ferrari (University of South Florida) |
| Graph Clustering for RNA Secondary Structure Analysis |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232/Zoom |
Unlike DNA, RNA is single stranded and folds via bonds between pairs of complementary nucleotides while it is still being synthesized from DNA. One central problem in molecular biology is understandin... More |
Feb 9 2022 |
| Fan Bai |
| Temporal Programs and the Global Structure of Transcription Networks |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Feb 9 2022 |
| Audrey Nash |
| Temperature Dependence of Vegetative Growth and Dark Respiration: A Mathematical Model |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Love 232 |
The Speaker will present the paper "Temperature Dependence of Vegetative Growth and Dark Respiration: A Mathematical Model" by Martin P. N. Gent and Herbert Z. Enoch. Abstract: A mathe... More |
Feb 2 2022 |
| Susan Rogowski |
| The Feedforward Loop Network Motif |
| Biomath Journal Club |
| Time: 5:00 PM |
| Location: Dirac 216 |
Feb 2 2022 |
| Camden Neese (FSU Statistics) |
| Cracking the Code: Rate and Phase Analysis of Neuronal Spike Trains |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Love 202 |
The field of neural decoding studies how neurons transmit information in their electrical signals. Decoding has traditionally been dominated by a rate-oriented perspective, which largely ignores the p... More |
Jan 26 2022 |
| Tom Needham |
| Canceled for conflict with colloquium |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 202 |
Students are encouraged to attend the colloquium talk of Nick Miller instead. |
Jan 12 2022 |
| Organizational Meeting |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: LOV 232 |
Dec 1 2021 |
| Toan Tran (FSU) |
| Epidemics |
| Biomathematics Journals |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac |
Nov 25 2021 |
| (FSU) |
| ATE Prep |
| Biofluids |
| Time: 11 |
| Location: Dirac Conference room |
Nov 18 2021 |
| (FSU ) |
| ATE Practice |
| Biofluids |
| Time: 11 |
| Location: Dirac |
Nov 17 2021 |
| Dr. Nick Cogan (FSU Mathematics) |
| Multiphase Models: From Biofilms to the Origin of Life |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Multiphase models have been extensively used to describe the dynamics in applications where multicomponent physics play a role. Rather than resolve the components at the microscope, macroscopic closur... More |
Nov 17 2021 |
| Brooke Haywood (FSU) |
| Small-World Phenomena |
| Biomathematics Journals |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac |
Nov 17 2021 |
| Ethan Semrad (FSU Mathematics) |
| Methods for Structured Network Data with Techniques from Optimal Transport |
| ATE Presentation |
| Time: 1:30 |
| Location: LOV 204 |
Nov 10 2021 |
| Angie Davenport (FSU Mathematics) |
| Dengue fever, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and R; a brief overview of my summer internship experience at Takeda Pharmaceuticals |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Nov 10 2021 |
| Angie Davenport (FSU Mathematics) |
| Dengue fever, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and R; a brief overview of my summer internship experience at Takeda Pharmaceuticals |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
In this week’s Biomath Seminar, I will discuss multiple topics such as: how I learned of an internship opportunity at Takeda Pharmaceuticals, what my twelve-week, virtual, experience was like, what ... More |
Nov 10 2021 |
| Mehran Fazli (FSU) |
| Cascading Behavior in Networks |
| Biomathematics Journals |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Dirac |
Nov 3 2021 |
| (FSU Mathematics) |
| Cancelled due to speaker conflict |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Oct 27 2021 |
| Dr. Bhargav Karamched (FSU Mathematics) |
| Lattice Models in Synthetic Biology and Cancer: How simple models and help us understand complex spatiotemporal systems |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Lattice models have a rich history in biological modeling. They provide a valuable framework for modeling complex spatiotemporal dynamics in biological tissues---thereby forming a viable alternative t... More |
Oct 20 2021 |
| Dr. Mohammad Nooranidoost (Postdoc, FSU Mathematics) |
| Bayesian estimation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa viscoelastic properties |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms in cystic fibrosis (CF) infections are initiated by individual bacteria that produce various types of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). The major components of ... More |
Oct 13 2021 |
| Nicole Bruce (FSU Mathematics) |
| Synchronization of pancreatic islets in a mathematical model |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Insulin is released in pulses from beta cells in pancreatic islets. There are around one million islets in the human pancreas. The fact that we observe clear, high amplitude pulses of insulin in the b... More |
Oct 6 2021 |
| Dr. Monica Hurdal (FSU Mathematics) |
| Brain Mapping via Geometry, Topology, and Differential Equations |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
In this presentation I will give an overview of my research involving conformal flat maps of the human brain. The functional processing of the brain mainly occurs on the surface, in the cerebral corte... More |
Sep 29 2021 |
| Dayton Syme (FSU Mathematics) |
| A Mathematical Model of Immune Response to Immunotherapy in Breast Cancer |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Despite many advances in the treatment of triple negative breast cancer, the available treatment options are still quite limited and not broadly successful for improving tumor response. Recent treatme... More |
Sep 22 2021 |
| Mehran Fazli (FSU Mathematics) |
| Fast-Slow Analysis of a Stochastic Mechanism for Electrical Bursting |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Electrical bursting oscillations in neurons and endocrine cells are activity patterns that facilitate the secretion of neuro- transmitters and hormones, and have been the focus of study for sev... More |
Sep 15 2021 |
| Dr. Richard Bertram (FSU Mathematics) |
| Synchronization Properties of Scale-Free Networks of Pituitary Cells |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Pituitary cells secrete hormones that regulate most functions of the body. Like neurons, they exhibit electrical activity, and it is this activity that regulates hormone secretion. In particular, burs... More |
Sep 8 2021 |
| Dr. Monica Hurdal (FSU Mathematics) |
| Mathematical Models of Human Brain Folding Pattern Formation & Characterization |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
In this presentation I will give an overview of my research involving cortical pattern formation and conformal flat maps of the human brain. I will discuss some of biological theories of cortical fold... More |
Sep 1 2021 |
| Dr. Monica Hurdal (FSU Mathematics) |
| Organizational Meeting |
| Biomath Seminar |
| Time: 3:05pm |
| Location: LOV 200 |
Apr 14 2021 |
| No Seminar - Last Week of Classes |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
Apr 7 2021 |
| Fan Bai (FSU Mathematics) |
| A Frequency-Dependent Mechanism for Axon Length Regulation |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
An axon is the longest protrusion from a neuron, which can be thousands of times longer than the cell body. A natural question is how the neuron controls the length of the axon. A recently proposed me... More |
Mar 31 2021 |
| Virgina Parkman (FSU Mathematics) |
| Canine Distemper Modeled in an Animal Shelter with Quarantine |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
Canine distemper outbreak modeled in an animal shelter by Dantzler, et al. focused on modeling the spread of the canine distemper virus (CDV) through a local animal shelter. For this presentation, we ... More |
Mar 24 2021 |
| Zachary Deskin (FSU Mathematics) |
| Techniques to Compute the Basic Reproduction Number in Epidemic Models |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
In epidemic models, we would like to determine the behavior of an infectious disease (i.e., will we have an epidemic or not). It turns out that you just need to look at a number, called the Basic Repr... More |
Mar 17 2021 |
| Ethan Semrad (FSU Mathematics) |
| Merge Trees |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
Merge trees can be a useful tool in topological data analysis. They can be used to extract certain topological features of a dataset for comparison or analysis. For this presentation, we will first ... More |
Mar 10 2021 |
| Mehran Fazli (FSU Mathematics) |
| TBA |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
TBA |
Mar 4 2021 |
| Brooke Haywood (FSU Mathematics) |
| Exploring Biodiversity Caused Disease Amplification and Dilution |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 1:20 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
Please note the date change for this week. Instead of meeting on March 3 at 3:05 pm we will meet on March 4 at 1:20pm. This talk is designed to explore the relationship between disease spread ... More |
Feb 24 2021 |
| Seminar Postponed |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
Feb 18 2021 |
| Yi Zhou (FSU) |
| Algorithms for Factoring (Skew) Polynomials |
| Algebra and Its Applications |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom |
Feb 17 2021 |
| Dr. Monica Hurdal (FSU Mathematics) |
| Ten simple rules for tackling your first mathematical models: A guide for graduate students by graduate students |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
This week's seminar will be via a Discussion Board. We will not be meeting in person via Zoom. For this week's seminar please read the following paper: Bodner et al. (2021) Ten simple ru... More |
Feb 10 2021 |
| Shaikh Obaidullah (FSU Mathematics) |
| Effects of Osmotic Perturbation on the Gut Microbiota |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
The gut microbiota plays a vital role in managing our body's functions -- the microbiota determines health in our gut. Laxative treatment is applied to alleviate the gut problem. Thus, it creates tran... More |
Feb 3 2021 |
| Dr. Monica Hurdal (FSU Mathematics) |
| Discrete Conformal Maps As Applied To Brain Mapping |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
In this presentation I will introduce the method of circle packing and how my research group is applying it to create conformal maps of the brain. Motivation for using conformal maps in neuroscience w... More |
Jan 27 2021 |
| Dr. Monica Hurdal (FSU Mathematics) |
| Mapping the Visual Cortex of the Human Brain - Part 2 |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
In this presentation, I will discuss a mathematical model that represents how the visual field is processed by the visual cortex of the visual brain. It turns out that this map is a conformal map and ... More |
Jan 20 2021 |
| Dr. Monica Hurdal (FSU Mathematics) |
| Mapping the Visual Cortex of the Human Brain |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
In this presentation, I will discuss a mathematical model that represents how the visual field is processed by the visual cortex of the visual brain. It turns out that this map is a conformal map and ... More |
Jan 13 2021 |
| Dr. Monica Hurdal (FSU Mathematics) |
| Organizational Meeting |
| Biomathematics Seminar |
| Time: 3:05 |
| Location: Zoom. Seminar link has info. |
Nov 10 2020 |
| Yeuran Oh (FSU) |
| Islet Synchronization in a Hybrid Experimental and Mathematical System |
| Dissertation Defense |
| Time: 10:00 AM |
| Location: Zoom |
Aug 26 2020 |
| Richard Bertram (FSU) |
| A Model for Collective Dynamics in Ant Raids |
| Biomathematics Journals Seminar |
| Time: 5:00 |
| Location: Zoom |
Jul 1 2020 |
| Canlin Zhang (FSU) |
| Natural Language Processing By Deep Neural Networks |
| Dissertation Defense |
| Time: 10:00 |
| Location: Zoom |
Mar 11 2020 |
| Mehran Fazli (FSU) |
| Model Development and Mathematical Analysis of a Pituitary Corticotroph Cell |
| ATE Defense |
| Time: 2:00 |
| Location: 204B Love |