Event Description: Abigail Person, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine Mechanisms of cerebellar control of movement My lab investigates the role of the cerebellum in motor control. We take a multidisciplinary approach, applying neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, optogenetics and behavior, to test how theorized computations are performed...
Event Description: John Nardini, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Biochemical activity-structured population models Structured partial differential equation models are widespread in math biology. For age- and size- structuring, these features tend to increase over time. We extend previous results from these two types of structures to investigate...
Event Description: Amber Smith, Infectious Diseases Department, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Integrative Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interactions During Influenza-Pneumococcal Coinfection Influenza virus infections are often complicated by coinfection with bacterial pathogens, such as pneumococcus. These bacterial coinfections significantly increase influenza-associated morbidity and mortality. The host immune response plays a...
Event Description: Peter Shaffery, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Understanding Epidemic Variability using Bayesian Hierarchical Models The relationship between ecosystem biodiversity and disease prevalence is still not well understood. In some studies results have shown biodiversity increasing disease resistance, while in others biodiversity actually promotes disease spread...
Event Description: Jay Stotsky, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder Numerical methods for accurately computing forces due to drag-coupled particles In various applications in biology and physics, fluid flows containing small particles appear. In order to simulate such fluids, drag forces between the fluid and particles must be...
