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last updated: Nov 1, 2007

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Invited Lectures

Nov 2006-Nov 2007

Dan Coombs, Nonlinear theory and applications 2007, Vancouver, BC, Competition a mong viruses at the within- and between-host scales, September 2007.

Dan Coombs, New imaging techniques: challenges for experimental and theoretical immunology, Leeds, UK, Directions for studying the mobility of cell-surface prot eins, September 2007.

Eric Cytrynbaum, Centre for Scientific Computing Seminar, Simon Fraser University, A Polymer Model Explains MinDE Dynamics in E. coli Cell Division, November 2006.

Eric Cytrynbaum, Math Biology Seminar, University of California Davis, Modeling the biophysical, biochemical and dynamical properties of the MinDE system preceding cell division in E. coli,February 2007.

Eric Cytrynbaum, MITACS/Matheon workshop on Complex Networks in the Life Sciences, Berlin, Polymer dynamics in cell division, April 2007.

Eric Cytrynbaum, Max Planck Insistute for Complex Systems, Dresden, Polymer dynamics in cell division, April 2007.

Eric Cytrynbaum, Conference in Honor of Jim Keener's 60th Birthday, University of Utah, A 1D spiral on the boundary, May 2007.

Eric Cytrynbaum, CMS-MITACS annual meeting, Winnipeg, Connections between a 1D-spiral wave, fast and slow pulses, June 2007.

Eric Cytrynbaum, CRM workshop on Deconstructing Biochemical Networks, University of Montreal, Polymer dynamics in cell division, Sept 2007.

Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Modelling Type 1 Diabetes, UC Irvine Feb 2007.

Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Models for Alzheimer's Disease, NASA Space Radiation Risks Workshop, Dallas TX March 2007.

Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Cell Motility; Which way to move? American Physical Society Meeting, Denver, CO, March 2007

Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Cell polarity from a wave-pinning mechanism, Weizmann Institute, May 2007.

Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Biological Dynamics of Cellular Processes, UCSD Theoretical Biological Physics Workshop, July 2007.

Leah Edelstein-Keshet, Modelling Cell motility. Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, Burnaby, BC July 2007.

Anmar Khadra, Otto Warburg International Summer School and Workshop on Computational Systems Biology, Max Plank Institute, Berlin, Germany, Model predictions for GnRH hormonal secretion in vivo and in vitro, August 2007.

Anmar Khadra, CMS-MITACS Joint Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Robust rhythmogenesis in endocrine neurons via autocrine regulations in a common pool of extracellular hormone, June 2007.

Anmar Khadra, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Episodic and pulsatile hormonal secretion of GnRH by coupled and synchronized GnRH neurons, February 2007.

MC Mackey, Zurich, ESMTB Meeting, Periodic Hematological Disease: Insight into Origins Derived from Mathematical Modeling, July 2007.

MC Mackey, Zurich, ICIAM Meeting, Mathematical Modeling of Gene Regulation, July 2007.

MC Mackey, Szeghed, Hungary, Conference on the Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, June 2007.

MC Mackey, Dresden, Germany, Density Evolution in Differential Delay Equations: An Open Problem, June 2007.

MC Mackey, Dresden, Germany, From Complex Systems Theory to Clinical Neurology, June 2007.

MC Mackey, Duke University, Mathematical Modeling of Periodic Hematological Disease, May 2007.

MC Mackey, Universitet Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Mathematics, Physics and Biology: Interactions and Interdependence, April, 2007.

MC Mackey, Jacob University, Bremen, Germany, Mathematical models of gene regulation: Predictions and problems, April, 2007.

MC Mackey, Erkner (Berlin), Germany, MITACS-MATHEON Workshop on Complex Networks in the Life Sciences, Outstanding mathematical problems in the modelling of bacterial gene regulation, April, 2007.

MC Mackey, Erkner (Berlin), Germany, MITACS-MATHEON Workshop on Complex Networks in the Life Sciences, Mathematical modelling of gene regulation, April, 2007.

MC Mackey, CND Seminar Series, McGill University, Dark energy, vacuum fluctuations, and microscopic irreversibility, January, 2007.

MC Mackey, Rockefeller University, NYC, Dark energy, vacuum fluctuations, and microscopic irreversibility, December, 2006.

MC Mackey, Rockefeller University, NYC, Mathematical modeling of periodic hematological disease, December, 2006.

MC Mackey, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, Vacuum fluctuations, dark energy, and microscopic irreversibility, October, 2006.

MC Mackey, BIOSIM Annual Meeting, Mallorca, Spain, Mathematical Models of Gene Regulation, October, 2006.

MC Mackey, Universite Lyon I, Institute of Mathematics, Periodic Hematological Disease, October, 2006.

Jamie Piret, Bayer, Berkeley CA, Stem Cell Bioengineering, December 2006.

Jamie Piret, Sanofi-Pasteur, Toronto ON, Stem Cell Bioengineering, December, 2006.

Jamie Piret, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, Queensland, Stem Cell Bioengineering, Australia, June 2007.

Jamie Piret, Society for Industrial Microbiology Conference, Denver, CO, Mathematical Modeling to Accelerate Cell Culture Bioprocess Engineering, July 2007.

Contributed Talks

Nov 2006-Nov 2007

Underlined names are trainees of the network.

James Bailey, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Phenomenological modeling of nucleated polymerization of human islet amyloid polypeptide. A combine experimental and theoretical approach, July 2007.

Peter Borowski, Frontiers in Biophysics, Maple Ridge, BC, Model of intracellular calcium oscillations due to negative feedback, October 2006.

Peter Borowski, Mathematical Biology Seminar, UBC, A Stochastic Two-State Signalling Module with Negative Feedback, November 2006.

Peter Borowski, IAM Retreat, Coquitlam, BC, Playing with a polymer model for the cell division in E.coli, April 2007.

Dan Coombs, DIMACS workshop on immunoepidemiology, Rutgers, NJ, Competition among viruses at the within- and between-host scales, December 2006.

Omer Dushek, IAM Seminar Retreat, Coquitlam, BC, Signaling in the Immune Synapse : Serial Engagements of T-Cell Receptors by a Few pMHC Molecules, April 2007.

Omer Dushek, Annual CAIMS Conference, Banff, AB, Analysis of serial engagements of T cell receptors, May 2007.

Raibatak Das, IAM Seminar Retreat, Coquitlam, BC, A Hidden Markov Model for Sing le Particle Tracks, April 2007.

Raibatak Das, Annual CAIMS Conference, Banff, AB, Modelling the Plasma-Membrane Recruitment of an Intracellular Signaling Protein, May 2007.

Jilkine A, Mathematical Model of Cell Polarization Based on Inhibitory Crosstalk of Rho GTPases. Frontiers in Biophysics: Modelling and Experiment. Loon Lake, BC. Oct. 13-15, 2006.

Alexandra Jilkine, Mathematical Model for Cell Polarization. Aspen Center for Physics Workshop on Cytoskeletal Assembly and Cellular Motility. Aspen, Colorado. May 28-June 10, 2007.

Alexandra Jilkine, Wave-pinning and cell polarity mechanism from a bistable reaction-diffusion system. PIMS International Graduate Training Centre Mathematical Biology Summit. September 28-30, 2007.

Anmar Khadra, Yue-Xian Li, 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Zrich, Switzerland, Mathematical modeling of rhythmic and pulsatile GnRH hormone secretion by synchronized GnRH neurons based on a robust mechanism, July 2007.

Anmar Khadra, Yue-Xian Li, Frontiers in Biophysics: Modeling and Experiment, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, Analyzing the robustness of synchrony in GnRH neurons when a common pool of GnRH hormone is considered, October, 2006.

Anmar Khadra, Yue-Xian Li, Joint SIAM-SMB Conference on the Life Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, A mathematical model for the pulsatile secretion of GnRH hormone by synchronized GnRH neurons, July 2006.

Posters

Nov 2005-Nov 2006

Peter Borowski, PIMS CRG workshop on Synchronous Rhythms in the Brain, UBC, A Model for Axon Fasciculation During the Development of the Olfactory System, June 2007.

Peter Borowski, The Boulder School in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Boulder, CO, A polymer model describes the dynamics of the Min proteins in E.coli, July 2007.

Peter Borowski, Deconstructing Biochemical Networks, Montreal, QC, A polymer model for the oscillations of the Min proteins in E.coli: possible patterns in both wildtype cells and filamentous mutants.

Dan Coombs, Workshop on experimental evolution, Bath, UK, Competition among viru ses at the within- and between-host scales, June 2007.

Glover CH, Chaudhry MAS, Bowen B, Eaves CJ, Piret JM (2006) Culture environment influences on embryoid-body forming potential of embryonic stem cells Stem Cell Network Annual General Meeting, Ottawa, ON, November, 2006

Alexandra Jilkine, Mathematical Model of Cell Polarization Based on Inhibitory Crosstalk of Rho GTPases. Gordon Research Conference on Gradient Sensing and Cell Migration. Ventura, California. Jan 28-Feb 2, 2007.

Anmar Khadra, Yue-Xian Li, Synchronous Rhythms in the Brain, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Modeling the pulsatile and synchronized behaviour of GnRH neurons, June 2007.

Komba M, Buhler H, Dutz JP, Finegood DT. The extra-cellular release of HMGB1 from necrotic beta-cells. Canadian Diabetes Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 24-27, 2007.


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