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Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting and Conference Knoxville, Tennessee July 25-28, 2012 Book of Abstracts of the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting and Conference Knoxville, Tennessee July 25-28, 2012 Theme: Mathematics and Biology: Interdisciplinary Connections and Living Systems Hosts: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and University of Tennessee Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting and Conference, July 25-28, 2012 SMB 2012 Author Index - alphabetical by presenting author Presenting author Title Page Ahmed Abdelrazec Optimal control of West Nile virus in mosquitoes, birds, and humans with 11 Season Maira Aguiar Rich dynamics in multi-strain models: non-linear dynamics and 12 deterministic chaos in dengue fever epidemiology Folashade Agusto Malaria drug resistance: The impact of human movement and spatial 13 heterogeneity Jorge Alfaro-Murillo An epidemic model with age of infection-dependent transmission rate and 14 waning immunity Jun Allard Polymerization-driven, adhesion-mediated actin traveling waves in motile 15 cells Richard Allen Stochastic inference of cell migration phenotypes 16 Andrew Allstadt Interference competition and invasion: Spatial structure, novel weapons, 17 and resistance zones Nina Alphey Genetic vector control strategies to reduce the burden of mosquito-borne 18 diseases Melissa Anthony Spatial Autocorrelation in Species Distribution Models: Simultaneous 19 Incorporation of Multiple Scales of Influence Using a Bayesian Framework (poster) Paul Armsworth Modeling a time-area closure as a tool for managing U.S. tuna fisheries 20 Erika Asano Optimal reproductive strategy for the fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) over 21 multiple seasons Austin Baird Pumping mechanism of the tubular sea squirt heart 22 H. T. Banks Experimental design for vector output systems 23 Lorena Barba Protein electrostatics on a desktop using GPU hardware and multipole 24 algorithms Jaydeep Bardhan Future-proofing fast electrostatic models for the era of massive parallelism 25 David Basanta Studying evolution in prostate cancer with agent based modeling 26 Andrew Bate Rabbits killing birds: Hypopredation and limitations of hyperpredation 27 Basil Bayati On the influence of high-order nonlinear fluctuations in the multivariate 28 SIR master equation Banu Baydil Data-driven computational modeling of breast tumor aggressiveness 29 Catherine Beauchemin Flu, where are you? 30 Stefan Becker A mathematical model to simulate the progression and treatment of brian 31 metastasis James Benson Optimal control of a class of PDE and state constrained bio-mass transport 32 problems Michael Berglund Computational Method for Identifying Space Polygons (poster) 33 Samit Bhattacharyya RSV and HPIV: do they interact? (poster) 34 Lydia Bilinsky Slow passage through a Hopf bifurcation in spatially extended excitable 35 systems: Some examples from neuroscience Martin Bock On crawling human epidermal keratinocytes 36 Erin Bodine First-year biomathematics: Considerations, possible frameworks, and 37 resources Sarah Bogen Agent-based mathematical model for Johne's disease epidemiology and 38 economy (poster) Ashfaque Bokhari Tumor growth and its monitoring (poster) 39 Vrushali Bokil Stochastic models for compteing species with a shared pathogen 40 Rebecca Borchering A Simple Spatiotemporal Rabies Model for Skunk and Bat Interaction in 41 Northeast Texas (poster) David Bortz Accurate experimental design and model selection computations 42 Beth Bradley The Search for a Dengue Reservoir in the Aedes Mosquito Population 43 (poster) Nick Britton Interspecific kleptoparasitism 44 2 Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting and Conference, July 25-28, 2012 Presenting author Title Page Cameron Browne Modeling HIV dynamics under periodic combination drug therapy 45 Alexander Bucksch Canopy network reconstruction from point cloud data 46 Liam Callaghan Modelling plant-pollinator interactions with mixtures of linkage rules 47 Hannah Callender Challenges and opportunities for assessment in first semester biocalculus 48 Jason Cantarella A new model for ring polymers with some exact solutions 49 Dalton Chaffee The Evolution of Imprinting (poster) 50 Arnaud Chauviere From normal mammary gland development to breast tumor growth: Step- 51 by-step development of a multiscale modeling approach Xiaolin Cheng Fast electrostatic calculation in molecular simulation 52 Duan Chen Multiscale and multiphysics modeling and simulation of proton transport 53 through membrane proteins Frederick Chen Behavioral responses to epidemics in an online experiment 54 Lauren Childs Quantifying strain dynamics of CRISPR-induced host-viral coevolution: 55 Sweeps and coalitions Rebecca Chisholm Building a morphogen gradient without diffusion in a growing tissue 56 Ching-Shan Chou Mathematical modeling of cell morphological change induced by 57 pheromone gradient in yeast Yao-Li Chuang Adapting a tumor growth model to an evolving domain using a diffuse- 58 domain approach Maciej Chudek How exploitation luanched human cooperation: A model of negative 59 indirect reciprocity Stanca Ciupe The role of e-antigen in immunological tolerance and activation during 60 HBV infection James Clarke Modelling the short-term dynamic impact and implications of control 61 strategies for Chlamydia trachomatis Christina Cobbold From diffusion models to patch models using mean occupancy time 62 Sarah Collier Modeling the evolution of sexual imprinting (poster) 63 Shannon Collinson The effects of media on influenza infection: An agent-based Monte Carlo 64 simulation Timothy Comar From biocalculus to undergraduate research 65 Timothy Comar Bifurcations in differential equations models for gene regulatory networks 66 Jessica M. Conway Stochastic model of HIV prevention using anti-retroviral drugs 67 Michael Cortez Comparing the eco-coevolutionary dynamics and the eco-evolutionary 68 dynamics of predator-prey systems using fast-slow dynamical systems theory Elizabeth Councill A comparative theoretical study of age-structured fish subpopulations 69 Elena Crosley Modeling Salmonella transmission in swine (poster) 70 Eric Cytrynbaum Mechanical modeling of bacterial cell division and the FtsZ ring 71 Donghai Dai The origin and mathematical characterization of cancer stem cells based on 72 computer simulated tumor development in uterine epithelium Abhiram Das SoLID – An Online Community Database of Leaf Images (poster) 73 Fordyce Davidson Selective heterogeneity in exoprotease production by Bacilus subtilis 74 Adriana Dawes Spatial localization of Par proteins in the early C. elegans embryo 75 Judy Day The role of T-cells in hemorrhagic shock 76 Troy Day Computability, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, and an inherent limit on 77 the predictability of evolution (plenary) Sandra Delgadillo A numerical study of the evolution of an aggressive heterogeneous tumor 78 with different chemotherapy treatments (poster) Edgar Delgado-Eckert Epistasis on networks: Genetic interactions and network reliability 79 Jeff Denny A yeast competition lab for teaching mathematical biology 80 James Dillon Modeling protein translation and genome evolution (poster) 81 Hana Dobrovolny Characterizing monotherapy and combination therapy of influenza 82 Tyler Drake A model of fission-yeast cell shape driven by membrane-bound growth 83 factors Brian Drawert Polarized stochastic amplification during mating in Saccharomyces 84 cerevisiae Carolyn Drobak Modeling the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis System for 85 Dexamethasone Treatment (poster) 3 Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting and Conference, July 25-28, 2012 Presenting author Title Page Vanja Dukic Bayesian modeling of smoking exposure during pregnancy 86 Christine Dumoulin Modeling Spatial Information Transfer Across Trophic Levels (poster) 87 Huijing Du Bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa propagates as a ring to result in 88 efficient colonization of surfaces Yimin Du The basic in-host model for tuberculosis (TB) 89 Tripti Dutta Variability in HIV infection in-host: A Monte Carlo Markov chain model 90 Hermann J. Eberl On honeybees, varroa destructor, and deadly diseases: A mathematical 91 approach Heiko Enderling The promoting role of a tumor-secreted chemorepellent in self-metastatic 92 tumor progression Roger Fan Modeling the Electrophysiology of Jellyfish Using the FitzHugh-Nagumo 93 Equations (poster) Paula Federico Optimal control in individual based models: Implications from aggregated 94 methods Kimberly Fessel The nonlinear effects of electromotility in the inner ear 95 Edward Flach Evolutionary model gives strategy for targeted cancer therapies 96 Nicholas Flann BioCellion: A high-performance computing framework for multiscale 97 modeling and simulation of multicellular biological systems Cesar O. Flores Phage-bacteria interaction networks: From nestedness to modularity 98 Jonathan Forde Mathematical mdoels of the role of immune exhaustion in Hepatitis B and 99 delta coinfection Rachel Fovargue Managing Reef Fish under Stochastic Dispersal Conditions (poster) 100 John Fricks Microtubule-based transport by multiple identical molecular motors 101 Brendan Fry Simulation of metabolic flow regulation by wall-derived and red-blood- 102 cell-derived mechanisms: Responses to hemodilution Jan Fuhrmann Emerging polymerization fronts in a minimal cytoskeleton model 103 Jonah Galeota-Sprung Exploring Emergent Behavior in Oscillatory Systems Using Agent-Based 104 Modeling (poster) Connor Gallagher Dynamical Model of Pollen Tube Tip Geometry (poster) 105 Jill Gallaher Bridging scales: Combining population statistics with tissue
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