Lyndsey Wong, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Finding Pattern Formation in a Model for Wealth and Amenities Gentrification refers to the influx of income into a community leading to the improvement of an area through renovation or the introduction of local amenities. This is usually accompanied by...
Jimmy Garnier, Laboratoire de mathématiques, Université de Savoie Genetic and demographic consequences of fast propagation Dispersal is one of the critical processes during the spreading stage of biological invasions. In particular, long-distance dispersal events may increase the dispersibility of invasive species and thus accelerate the spread of the biological invasion...
Kate Bubar, Biofrontiers Institute, University of Colorado Boulder Estimating the overlap between malaria parasite sequence reads Over half a million people die from malaria every year. The disease pathogenesis and subsequent fatality can be linked to PfEMP1, a protein encoded by var genes. Each parasite genome has sixty highly variable...
Lewis Baker, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Inference of Diffusion Coefficients from Single Particle Trajectories Membrane-targeting proteins are understood to diffuse on the surface of cells and occasionally associate with macromolecules integrated in the cell membrane. This association initiates reaction cascades within the cell, while introducing a...
Sabina Altus, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Multi-Structured Population Dynamics in Cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms with promising applications in renewable energy and agriculture as they are able to convert light energy into more stable forms of chemical energy, such as biomass, as well as kinetic energy...
Erin Ellefsen Department of Applied Mathematics University of Colorado Boulder Efficiently finding steady states of nonlocal territorial models in Ecology There are certain populations of animals that tend to move in social groups. We investigate territory development of these social groups by studying a system of non-local continuum equations. However,...
Jacqui Wentz Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Singular value decomposition of the reaction-diffusion stoichiometry matrix Flux balance analysis (FBA) is a mathematical technique used to study biochemical networks. In contrast to other methods, FBA requires limited information about kinetic parameters and metabolite concentrations. Previously, we developed a...
Tahra Eissa Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Biased response distributions for short observation sequences of rare events In a constantly changing world, organisms should estimate the rate that their environment changes to adequately weight evidence. However, given a limited number of observations, it is easy to vastly...
Harry Dudley Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Model Selection & Bioelectrochemical Systems Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) are devices that produce hydrogen from renewable organic matter, such as wastewater. These devices require less energy input than water electrolysis and have greater efficiency than fermentative hydrogen production. We present...
Differential-Algebraic Equation Models of Microbial Electrolysis Cells Microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) are an emerging technology that employs microorganisms to recover energy from organic waste in the form of hydrogen. MECs consist of two types of microbes. In these devices, bacteria on the electroactive anode biofilm oxidize (in)organic substrate and transfer...
