Thursday, January 28, 2010
\nJanet Best (Assistant Professor, Ohio State University) discusses her take as a math biologist on the interplay between applied math and biology. She and Kelly Suter (UTSA) talk about their collaboration in which they model the irregular firing patterns of GnRH neurons at puberty as mixed mode oscillators.
\nStay tuned after the credits for some sea squirt trivia, courtesy of C. Wilson.
\nDuration: 38 minutes
\nDiscussants:(in alphabetical order)
\nSayanti Bannerji (Graduate Student, OSU)
\nSalma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nKelly Suter (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nTodd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)
\nCharles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)
\nacknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.