Mathematical Biology Seminar of ISU                        Spring 2008

The Interdisciplinary Mathematical Biology Seminar Series in Iowa State University aims to identify and foster a community of people who are working at or interested in mathematical biology in Iowa State University. The long term goal is to establish an interdisciplinary program in mathematical biology at Iowa State University in which mathematicians and biologists will work together to address new challenges arising in the biological sciences. 

Over the past few decades, research on biological systems has produced a vast flow of quantitative information at all levels of biological organization—from the yeast protein interaction to a full catalog of the Great Lake Ecosystem. The goal, to understand the function of the integrated system, demands collaborative solutions. In particular, there is a growing need for mathematicians and biologists to built working models of these complex systems. Biology and Mathematics are two interdisciplinary that have interacted for a long time with a long list of success. Mathematicians now have the mathematical coalescent because it was invented to model genetic inheritance. Biologists now enjoy detailed pictures of protein structures because of Nobel Prize—wining mathematicians. Despite this long history of success, there is, still, a growing consensus that the future is where most great discoveries in mathematical biology await.

For upcoming events please see our Calendar .

NEWs:

Trachette Jackson, University of Michigan

Title: Modeling the Cellular, Molecular, and Tissue Interactions Associated with Tumor Induced Angiogenesis

Monday (Nov 12) at 4:10 in 294 Carver

"Wir mussen issen, wir werden wissen"
             -- David Hilbert