Schedule of Mathematical Biology Seminar Fall 2000

Friday September 1
     Yang Kuang, Department of Mathematics, ASU.
     Intriguing roles of time delay in population dynamics: Part I

Friday September 8
     Greg Smith, Department of Mathematics, ASU.
     A firing-rate model of spike-frequency adaptation in sinusoidally-driven thalamocortical relay neurons.

Friday September 22
     Irakli Loladze, Department of Mathematics, ASU.
     Competition and coexistence in a three species community: why stoichiometry matters.

Friday September 29
     Michael Sheller, Department of Bioengineering, ASU.
     Mechanical and biochemical signal transduction in bone.

Friday October 6
     Roustem Miftakhov, Department of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
     Biological neural networks: old and new.
     Hosts: Hal Smith and Frank Hoppensteadt.

Friday October 13
     The dynamics of spines. Part I.
     Steve Baer, Department of Mathematics, ASU.

Friday October 27
     John Nagy, Scottsdale Community College
     Natural selection and evolution in human lung cancer.

Friday November 3
     Hal Smith, Department of Mathematics, ASU.
     How many algal species can 2 (or n) essential resources support?

Friday November 17
     Saleet Jafri, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
     The Regulation of Energy Production in Heart: A Model of the Citric Acid Cycle
     Host: Greg Smith.

Monday December 4
     John Burke, Department of Mathematics, ASU.
     Gene activation, metabolic pathways, regions of multi-stability