IGTC Graduate Summer School in Mathematical Biology
A PIMS/Accelerate BC sponsored Summer School in Mathematical Biology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 11-June 11, 2008
Detailed Daily Schedule for Week 5
The schedule for week 1 is HERE.
The schedule for week 2 is HERE.
The schedule for week 3 is HERE.
The schedule for week 4 is HERE.
For an overview of the month-long schedule click HERE.
For abstracts of talks click HERE.
For a list of events by category click HERE.
Unless otherwise indicated, events will take place in the ground -level seminar room at PIMS, 1933 West Mall Annex, UBC Campus, Vancouver, BC.
Directions for PIMS can be found HERE.
Monday June 9, 2008
- 9:00-10:30 Alex Mogilner : Spindle assembly (PDEs, probability estimate, Monte Carlo
simulations)
- 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00-12:00 - Student project presentations, Chair: Vishaal Rajani
- Bill Holmes: Flyvbjerg's microtubule paper
- Tanny Lai and Yanyu Xiao: Cortical oscillations in spreading cells
- Sudeshna Ghosh and Lingbo Li: Spruce Budworm model by Ludwig et al
- 12:00 lunch on your own
- 2:00-3:00 PM: Student Project Presentations, Chair: Bill Holmes
- Vishaal Rajani and Omer Dushek: Pseudopeaks in diffusing proteins and the Gillespie method
- Heather Hardway: Tango waves
- Fazal Abbas and Jonathan Martin: Keller-Segel chemotaxis
- 3:00-3:30 coffee break
- 3:30-4:30 Student Project Presentations, Chair: Tanny Lai
- Jun Allard: The bacterial Z-ring
- Ignacio Rozada and Annabelle Ballesta and Vasthi Alonso: Networks of coupled oscillators (Project 1 suggested by Bard)
- Anne Yust and Nick (Charles) Maggio:
Artificial liver (Project 8 suggested by Bard)
Tuesday June 10, 2008
- 9:00-10:30 Alex Mogilner: Cutting edge modeling of mitotic spindle (agent-based
simulations)
- 10:30-11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00-12:00 - Student project presentations, Chair: Alan MacAulay
- Vivi Andasari and Ehsan Ashraf: Pattern formation and the Grey-Scott model
- Sarah Lukens: 2D model of a moving cell (keratocyte): Rubinstein and Mogilner
- Jennifer Hubbarde and Erin Prosk: Modeling cofilin in the cell
- 12:15 lunch on your own
- 2:00 PM and afternoon: Student Project Presentations, Chair: Annabelle Balesta
- Raluca Apostu: The Toggle switch
- Jenny Bloomfield, Jen Lindquist, and Alan MacAulay: Alzheimer's Disease
- Atsushi Yokoyama and Gabriel Mitchell: Neuron Coupling
- 3:00-3:30 coffee break
- 3:30-4:10 Student Project Presentations, Chair: Gabriel Mitchell
- Shaun Strohm and Jiafen Gong: Review of Tyson cell-division models
- Sarah Sadeghi: Two continuum models for spreading of myxobacteria swarms
- Majid Hosseini: TBA
- Time to pack and relax
- 6:00 or 6:30 PM: gather at PIMS, socialize
- 7:00 PM: Closing Banquet at PIMS
- 8:15 PM: Awarding of Certificates of Completion
- 8:30 PM: Slide Show and other closing festivities
Wednesday June 11, 2008
- Visiting students' cleanup and departure preparations.
- 8:30 AM: Pick-up of loaned items (quads) to be returned.
- 11:00 AM Check-out from VST
- 9:30 - 12:00 Submissions of homework, material to be graded
- Departures and group transportation to YVR