Sentences with phrase «mathematical biologist»
A mathematical biologist is a person who uses mathematical methods and theories to understand and solve problems in biology. They combine their knowledge of mathematics with biology to study various living organisms and their behaviors. Full definition
It is evident to anyone attending meetings such as those at BIRS that the problems that mathematical biologists work on span time zones and international borders.
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This group includes biologists from the universities of Notre Dame and Windsor, economists from Florida and Wyoming, and mathematical biologists from Alberta.
This canonical view of predator - prey relationships was first identified by mathematical biologists Alfred Lotka and Vito Volterra in the 1920s and 1930s.
Whatever the changes, concern is growing, says mathematical biologist Irakli Loladze of Bryan College of Health Sciences in Lincoln, Neb..
Nearby resources at other universities and institutions in southern Ontario also provide endless opportunities for mathematical biologists.
(UBC hired two excellent young mathematical biologists last year.)
But today's active mathematical biologists must participate in — in addition to their traditional conferences — annual meetings of major biological professional societies, specialty conferences, as well as in focus groups (see Next Wave's article by Fred Roberts, and specialty workshops.
Bressloff, along with mathematical biologist Berton Earnshaw, conceived of the dendritic spine — the mushroom shape at the downstream end of the neuron — as a two - compartment box: On the far downstream end, essentially in the synapse, scaffolding proteins suspend AMPA receptors so they can bind glutamate signals coming from the upstream neuron.
The University of California, San Francisco, didn't want to lose star geneticist Nelson Freimer in 1995 when his wife, mathematical biologist Sally Blower, was looking for a job.
«There really seems to be a whole mix of animals playing a role in transmission,» says mathematical biologist Sebastian Funk, one of the authors of the study.
So argues mathematical biologist Martin Nowak of Harvard University in the cover story of the July 2012 issue of Scientific American.
At the same time, as part of theory building, the world - class award - winning mathematical biologist James Murray and his students began working with me on building a mathematical model of relationships, which led eventually to the publication of The Mathematics of Marriage (2002, MIT Press).
How does one become a mathematical biologist?
We now have seven women faculty members (none in the underclass of instructors or sessionals) and, as of this year, five mathematical biologists.
For example, the mathematical biologist R. A. Fisher was a founder of population genetics in the 1920s and 1930s, and his work relating fitness to genetic variance was enormously important.
Two mathematical biologists have arrived at a remarkable new theory of how the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, causes AIDS.
But George Sugihara, a mathematical biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, suspected there might be a deeper rule connecting how the virus acts in the two regions.
A team lead by Professors Ivana Gudelj, a mathematical biologist and Nick Talbot, a plant disease specialist, investigated the devastating rice blast disease.
A research team led by a biologist and a mathematical biologist from Washington State University is using special statistical methods to study how traits of biological organisms change.
Published in 1917 by the mathematical biologist, zoologist and Classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860 - 1948), it quickly became a reference for artists as well as scientists.