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Theoretical Biology & Biomathematics
June 9-14, 1996
Tilton School
Tilton, NH

Sunday Evening, June 9, 1996:
Session on Ecology:

  • Session Chair: Shay Gueron, Technion University
  • Jim Cushing, University of Arizona - An Interdisciplinary Study of Nonlinear Population Dynamics: Models, Experiments, and Data Analysis
  • Jim Powell, Utah State University - Local Projections for a Global Model of Mountain Pine Beetle Attacks
  • Ignacio Barradas, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas - Disturbed Competition and Coexistence
Monday Morning, June 10, 1996:
Session on Calcium and Synaptic Transmission:

  • Session Chair: Arthur Sherman, NIH
  • Sobhana Sivaramakrishnan, Mayo Medical Center - Calcium Channels, Calcium Transients, and Transmitter Release in Nerve Terminals
  • Elis Stanley, NIH - The Single Domain Bound Calcium Model of Release and Facilitation
  • TBA
Monday Evening, June 10, 1996:
Session on the Analysis of the Encoding of Information by Nerve Cells and Networks:

  • Session Chair: John Miller, UC Berkeley
  • Tim Gawne, University of Alabama - What are All of those Neurons in the Visual Cortex Really Doing?
  • Frederic Theunissen, UCSF - Neural Encoding of Auditory Patterns
Tuesday Morning, June 11, 1996:
Session on Molecular Motors:

  • Session Chair: George Oster, UC Berkeley
  • Steven M. Block, Princeton University - Nanometers and Piconewtons: Using Optical Tweezers to Study Biological Motors
  • Charles R. Doering, Los Alamos - Mathematical Modeling of Molecular Motors
  • Alex Mogilner, UC Davis - Cell Motility Driven by Actin Polymerization
Tuesday Evening, June 11, 1996:
Session on Microbial Motility:

  • Session Chair: Robert Dillon, Tulane University
  • Roseanne Ford, University of Virginia - Quantitative Studies of Bacterial Motility and Chemotaxis
  • John O. Kessler, University of Arizona - Individual and Collective Locomotion of Swimming Microorganisms: Measurements and Modeling of Velocity Distributions
Wednesday Morning, June 12, 1996:
Session on Statistical Models, Neural Coding and Information

  • Session Chair: Larry Abbott, Brandeis University
  • Yan Dan, Rockefeller University - Efficient Coding of Natural Scenes in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
  • Emilio Salinas, Brandeis University - Using Population Decoding to Understand Sensory-Motor Transformation
  • Emery Brown, Harvard University - A Statistical Model of the Human Biological Clock
Wednesday Evening, June 12, 1996
Session on Pattern Formation and Immunology:

  • Session Chair: Sharon Lubkin, University of Washington
  • Micah Dembo, Boston University - Mechanics and Control of Cell Division
  • Denise Kirschner, Texas A&M University - Modeling the Immunology of HIV Infections
Thursday Morning, June 13, 1996
  • Session on Biological Fluid Dynamcis:

  • Session Chair: Aaron Fogelson, University of Utah
  • Charles Peskin, Courant Institute - Computer Simulation of Biological Systems Interacting with Fluid
  • Nicholas Hill, University of Leeds - Solving the Fokker-Planck Equation on a Unit Sphere and Applications in Bioconvection
  • TBA
Thursday Evening, June 13, 1996
Session on Biological Fluid Dynamics II:

  • Session Chair: Steve Vogel, Duke University
  • Mimi Koehl, UC Berkeley - Smelling with Hairy Little Noses: The Fluid Dynamics of Olfactory Antenna

 
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