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Spring
The structure will be to:
- Meet 2 or 3 times per month on Wednesdays to discuss research
techniques, to exchange ideas and to relate experiences that the
students are having.
- Initially, the PIs/mentors will present techniques and some
concepts in a lecture format to introduce the students to field of
Mathematical Biology. Students will be given review or research
papers to read and then to present to the group. They will be taught
techniques used in mathematical and in biological research
(modeling, phase-plane analysis, numerical simulations methods,
electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, microscopy, ecological
field techniques).
- At the same time as 1 and 2 are taking place, the students, in
pairs, will spend approximately 5 hours per week in the laboratories
they have been assigned following a designated graduate student who will
be their mentor. The students will rotate for one month in each of three
laboratories between February and April (see below). The purpose is to
have the students learn about the ideas, motivations and to some extent
the techniques used in these labs.
Kunj discusses plant population models with Dr. Holzapfel
Projects
- Our first project is to learnt how to use XPP,
a computer program for numerical integration differential equations.
- Modeling the Caspases in p75-mediated Neuronal Death. Some of
us learnt those terms on the job so don't get scared away. Your may to want to
see Diana's Presentation first, it explains the biology.
Presentations:
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