---------------------------------------------------- Subject: SMB Digest v10i24 SMB Digest June 17, 2010 Volume 10 Issue 24 ISSN 1086-6566 Editor: Ray Mejía ray(at)smb(dot)org Note: Information about the Society for Mathematical Biology, including an application for membership, may be found in the SMB Home Page, http://www.smb.org/ . Access the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, the official journal of SMB, at http://www.springer.com/11538 . Inquiries about membership or BMB fulfillment should be sent to membership(at)smb(dot)org . Issue's Topics: SMB 2010 Poster Session / Submission of Abstracts Workshop: Statistical Physics & Biology of Collective Motion, Dresden Workshop: Systems Biology of Disease, Aug 15-18, Maynooth Workshop: Bootcamp in Cancer Modeling, Sept 7-10, MBI Do science metrics measure up? ToC: MBE, volume 7, issue 3 July 2010 ToC: Applicable Analysis, volume 89 issue 7 NSF Funding Opportunity: Interface of Bio & Math / Physical Sciences PhD Position: Theoretical Evolutionary Biology, Vienna SMBnet Reminders ---------------------------------------------------- From: Biomat Consortium Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:02:03 -0300 Subject: SMB 2010 Poster Session / Submission of Abstracts Submission of Abstracts for the SMB 2010 /BIOMAT 2010 POSTER SESSION Deadline: 23 June SMB 2010 Annual Meeting/ BIOMAT 2010 Symposium - Rio de Janeiro, 24th - 29th July http://www.biomat.org/smb/smb2010.html   Successful Authors will receive a prompt response from the Board of Referees. In the present year, in order to celebrate the 01st SMB Annual Meeting to be held in South America, in a joint conference with the BIOMAT 2010 Symposium, the Organization Committee has decided to offer a prize and a Special Certificate to the author(s) of the best Poster. Poster Prizes are regularly sponsored by publishers. A specific announcement on sponsors will be posted before 7th July.   Please fill in the form below and send a copy of this message to smb2010biomat@gmail.com   Looking forward to meeting you in Rio de Janeiro. SMB 2010 / BIOMAT 2010 POSTER SESSION Author(s): Affiliation(s): Title of Abstract: Abstract: ---------------------------------------------------- From: Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:18 AM Subject: Workshop: Statistical Physics & Biology of Collective Motion, Dresden International Workshop on Statistical Physics and Biology of Collective Motion Scientific Coordinators: A. Deutsch, G. Theraulaz, T. Vicsek Dear colleague, we would like to draw your attention to our international workshop on Statistical Physics and Biology of Collective Motion to be held from November 8 to 12, 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS) in Dresden. More information - including the application form - can be found on the workshop's web page through http://www.pks.mpg.de/~colmot10. Yours sincerely, Andreas Deutsch, Guy Theraulaz, Tamas Vicsek ---------------------------------------------------- From: Wilhelm Huisinga Date: Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:19 AM Subject: Workshop: Systems Biology of Disease, Aug 15-18, Maynooth Early registration for the 3rd International Workshop on Systems Biology, August 15th-18th(midday), 2010 at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland closes soon. Please see URL     http://www.hamilton.ie/SystemsBiology/Workshop2010/ The focus of the workshop is on Systems Biology of Disease, with special emphasis on neurodegeneration, immunological diseases and cancer. Academic faculty members, industrial and post-doctoral researchers and post-graduate students are encouraged to attend the workshop. Plenary speakers: Neil Benson (Pfizer UK), Roland Eils (DKFZ Heidelberg), Philip Hodgkin (Walter Eliza Hall Institute), Mustafa Khammash (University of California Santa Barbara), Charlotte Kloft (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg), Walter Kolch (Systems Biology Ireland), Ursula Kummer (University of Heidelberg), Douglas Lauffenburger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Kingston Mills (Trinity College Dublin), Alan Perelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Peter Tass (Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Jülich). In addition to the keynote lectures, the workshop will include a poster session in which participants are encouraged to present results of their own research. The schedule is designed to provide ample opportunities to discuss with speakers and industry representatives. For further information, please see website above. Looking forward to seeing you in Maynooth, Wilhelm Huisinga and Rick Middleton  (chairs) ---------------------------------------------------- From: Stella Cornett Date: Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:45 AM Subject: Workshop: Bootcamp in Cancer Modeling, Sept 7-10, MBI The Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University will host a "Bootcamp in Cancer Modeling" from September 7-10, 2010. The MBI Bootcamp on Cancer Modeling is aimed at young researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences, although young researchers in the mathematical sciences will both benefit from and be accepted into the bootcamp. The bootcamp will focus on three themes surrounding cancer modeling: signaling pathways, tumor growth, and radiotherapy. Three speakers will address each theme: the first will provide the general biological background to the theme, the second will review the relevant modeling, while the third will deliver a state-of-the-art talk and suggest directions/challenges for future research.? Each theme will also include a lab session where participants can experiment with pre-programmed models. The bootcamp presenters will include: - Signaling Pathways: Darryl Shibata (USC); Olaf Wolkenhauer (Rostock) - Tumor Growth: Vito Quaranta (Vanderbilt); Alexander Anderson (Moffitt); Yi Jiang (Los Alamos National Lab) - Radiotherapy: Philip Hahnfeldt (Tufts); Heiko Enderling (Tufts) The bootcamp will also have a poster session at which participants are invited to display and discuss their work. Local support is available for interested graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Please apply on the MBI website (http://mbi.osu.edu/2010/btcmpdescription.html). Full consideration will be given to applications received by July 23, 2010. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by August 2, 2010. Organizers: Helen Byrne (Nottingham), Mark Chaplain (Dundee), Reinhard Laubenbacher (VBI), and Katarzyna Rejniak (Moffitt) ---------------------------------------------------- From: Nature Publishing Group Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:59:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Do science metrics measure up? Since the invention of the science citation index in the 1960s, quantitative measuring of the performance of researchers has become ever more prevalent, controversial and influential. Numbers have been developed to track how many papers a researcher publishes, how often they are cited, and much more. Nature takes a look at the explosion of new metrics that have been invented in recent years, to find out what they measure, whether it is worth measuring, and the impact that this measuring has. Access selected content free online. http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=7&m=34989659&r=MTc3MDkyMjQxMAS2&b=2&j=NzYwNDczMTkS1&mt=1&rt=0 Listen to this week?s FREE Nature Podcast. http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=1&m=34989659&r=MTc3MDkyMjQxMAS2&b=2&j=NzYwNDczMTkS1&mt=1&rt=0 ---------------------------------------------------- From: Liwei Ning Date: Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM Subject: ToC: MBE, volume 7, issue 3 July 2010 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (MBE) Volume: 7, Number: 3 July 2010 http://aimsciences.org/journals/displayPapers1.jsp?pubID=374 Khalid Addi and Aleksandar D. Rodi\'{c} pages{479--504} Impact dynamics in biped locomotion analysis: Two modelling and implementation approaches Robert Artebrant, Aslak Tveito and Glenn T. Lines pages{505--526} A method for analyzing the stability of the resting state for a model of pacemaker cells surrounded by stable cells Robert E. Beardmore and Rafael Peña-Miller pages{527--552} Rotating antibiotics selects optimally against antibiotic resistance, in theory Juvencio Alberto Betancourt-Mar, Víctor Alfonso Méndez-Guerrero, Carlos Hernández-Rodríguez and José Manuel Nieto-Villar pages{553--560} Theoretical models for chronotherapy: Periodic perturbations in hyperchaos Bruno Buonomo, Alberto d'Onofrio and Deborah Lacitignola pages{561--578} Rational exemption to vaccination for non-fatal SIS diseases: Globally stable and oscillatory endemicity Alberto d'Onofrio pages{579--602} On the interaction between the immune system and an exponentially replicating pathogen Meng Fan, Bingbing Zhang and Michael Yi Li pages{603--622} Mechanisms for stable coexistence in an insect community Stefano Fasani and Sergio Rinaldi pages{623--639} Local stabilization and network synchronization: The case of stationary regimes Miled El Hajji, Frédéric Mazenc and Jérôme Harmand pages{641--656} A mathematical study of a syntrophic relationship of a model of anaerobic digestion process Christopher M. Kribs-Zaleta pages{657--673} Alternative transmission modes for {\em Trypanosoma cruzi} Shengqiang Liu and Lin Wang pages{675--685} Global stability of an HIV-1 model with distributed intracellular delays and a combination therapy Anuj Mubayi, Christopher Kribs Zaleta, Maia Martcheva and Carlos Castillo-Chavez pages{687--717} A cost-based comparison of quarantine strategies for new emerging diseases Graeme Wake, Anthony Pleasants, Alan Beedle and Peter Gluckman pages{719--728} A model for phenotype change in a stochastic framework ---------------------------------------------------- From: Smith, Ian Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:29 AM Subject: ToC: Applicable Analysis, volume 89 issue 7 Applicable Analysis: An International Journal Volume 89 Issue 7 is now available online at informaworldTM. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g923079836~db=all?jumptype=alert&alerttype=new_issue_alert,email Special Issue: Analysis and Applications of PDEs in Biomathematics This new issue contains the following articles: Preface Pages 961 - 962 Authors: Junping Shi; Xingfu Zou Stationary periodic and homoclinic solutions for nonlocal reaction-diffusion equations Pages 963 - 981 Author: Shangbing Ai Reaction-diffusion models with large advection coefficients Pages 983 - 1004 Authors: Andriy Bezuglyy; Yuan Lou Linearizing transformations to a generalized reaction-diffusion system Pages 1005 - 1021 Authors: Zhaosheng Feng; Yubing Wan Multiple stable patterns in a balanced bistable equation with heterogeneous environments Pages 1023 - 1035 Authors: Kazuhiro Kurata; Hiroshi Matsuzawa Positive solutions for Lotka-Volterra competition systems with large cross-diffusion Pages 1037 - 1066 Authors: Kousuke Kuto; Yoshio Yamada The periodic Ross-Macdonald model with diffusion and advection Pages 1067 - 1089 Authors: Yijun Lou; Xiao-Qiang Zhao Nonlocal dispersal and averaging in heterogeneous landscapes Pages 1091 - 1108 Author: Frithjof Lutscher Lyapunov functional and global asymptotic stability for an infection-age model Pages 1109 - 1140 Authors: P. Magal; C. C. McCluskey; G. F. Webb Uniqueness and stability for coexistence solutions of the unstirred chemostat model Pages 1141 - 1159 Authors: Hua Nie; Jianhua Wu Bifurcation analysis in a diffusive 'food-limited' model with time delay Pages 1161 - 1181 Authors: Ying Su; Aying Wan; Junjie Wei ---------------------------------------------------- From: Vassilevska, Tanya Kostova Date: Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:30 PM Subject: NSF Funding Opportunity: Interface of Bio & Math / Physical Sciences A new opportunity has been announced for support of research at the interface of the biological and either the mathematical or the physical sciences: Research Coordination Networks (RCN) Please see http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11691 for details. Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 18, 2010 Background information: The "Research Coordination Networks in the Biological Sciences (RCN)" is a longstanding program of the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. This year, the RCN program was expanded to include the participation of additional NSF Directorates. In particular, a new track (RCN-PLS) was added to foster linkages between the biological sciences and the mathematical and physical sciences. Please note that the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), of which the Division of Mathematical Sciences is a part, will only support proposals submitted to the RCN-PLS track. From the solicitation: The Physical/Life Sciences Interface track (RCN-PLS) was developed between MPS and BIO to address research focused on a specific problem at the interface of the biological and mathematical or physical sciences that would be significantly advanced through a synergistic approach, requiring the expertise of both biologists and mathematical or physical scientists. Such proposals are expected to involve a balance of researchers from two or more disciplines, at least one in the biological sciences and one in the mathematical or physical sciences. The goal of this program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies are especially encouraged. Groups of investigators will be supported to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries. Proposals involving mathematical and physical scientists will be accepted under the targeted physical/life science interface track, and MPS will only provide support to proposals submitted to the physical/life science interface (RCN-PLS) track. Tanya Kostova-Vassilevska Program Director, Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Biology Division of Mathematical Sciences National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1025 Arlington, VA 22230 U.S.A. Phone: (703) 292 5043 Fax: (703) 292 9032 ---------------------------------------------------- From: Michael Kopp Date: Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:55 AM Subject: PhD Position: Theoretical Evolutionary Biology, Vienna PhD-position in theoretical evolutionary biology, Vienna A 3-year PhD-position in theoretical evolutionary biology is available in the Mathematics and BioSciences Group at the University of Vienna (see www.mabs.at). The successful applicant will work with Michael Kopp on a recently funded project aimed at studying the genetic basis of adaptation to changing environments. Other project partners include Joachim Hermisson, Reinhard Bürger (both University of Vienna) and Thomas Lenormand (CNRS Montpellier). The project will be based on the "moving optimum model" of adaptation to gradually changing environments (see recent Genetics papers at www.mabs.at/kopp/publications.html). This model shall be extended by including adaptation from standing genetic variation and evolution of multiple correlated traits, using a combination of methods from mathematical population genetics and computer simulations. As part of the project, the student will have the opportunity to spend several months in Montpellier to work with T. Lenormand. Applicants should be either biologists with good knowledge of mathematics or applied mathematicians/physicists/computer scientists with a strong interest in evolutionary biology. Previous experience in population genetics will be an asset. Knowledge of German is not required. Informal inquiries as well as formal applications (including a statement of research interests, a CV and contact information for two academic references, in a single PDF file) should be addressed to michael.kopp@univie.ac.at. Review of applications will start immediately and continue until the position is filled. The ideal starting date is October 2010, but this is flexible and can be negotiated. Vienna is one of the most attractive cities worldwide, and its scientific community provides a vibrant and stimulating environment with a unique depth of expertise in different areas of both theoretical and empirical evolutionary biology (see www.evolvienna.at). The monthly gross salary is around 1850 Euros. ---------------------------------------------------- Subject: SMBnet Reminders To subscribe to the SMB Digest please point your browser at http://list.auckland.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/math-smbnet and complete the subscription information. Alternatively, if you prefer to simply receive notice when the next issue is available, send mail to LISTSERV@listserv.biu.ac.il with "subscribe SMBnet Your Name" in the body of the mail (omit the quotes and include your name). After you subscribe, you will receive a greeting with additional information. Submissions to appear in the SMB Digest may be sent to SMBnet(at)smb(dot)org . Items of interest to the mathematical biology community may be submitted for inclusion in the SMBnet archive. See instructions at: http://smb.org/publications/SMBnet/pubs/fyi . The SMB Digest is also available on the SMB Home Page at http://smb.org/publications/SMBnet/digest/ The contents of this publication may be reproduced in whole or in part with attribution. End of SMB Digest **************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------