T JACKSON, P NELSON, D BURNS, D FORGER, P HANLON, J YOUNGER, A. KING

The Mathematical Biology Research Group currently spans the scientific areas of Immunology, Infectious Disease Pathology, Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; most specifically associated with Cancer, Pattern Formation, and Biological Rhythms, Bioinformatics, and Complex systems. In addition to our major areas of research, we also have collaborations and/or students working on problems in Epidemiology, Genetics, Physiology, Microbiology and Neuroscience. Our broad training in Mathematical Biology is a truly novel feature of this group and it allows us to supervise students in a wide variety of biological disciplines. Our mathematical expertise includes, ordinary, delay, and partial differential equation modeling, analysis and simulation; as well as parameter indentifiability, estimation, sensitivity. Our research also utilizes asymptotic analysis, dynamical systems and scientific computing.

Our work incorporates experimental data and sophisticated computational and analytical approaches. We are all dedicated to the belief that mathematical modeling should be intimately linked to experimental data to make the greatest impact on a biological problem. This is evidenced by our ongoing collaborations with experimental scientists in the Medical School, MCDB, and the School of Public Health.

Our students are trained to become interdisciplinary scientists, being prepared to tackle some of the most challenging problems in biology and medicine. We actively recuit the top students each year to work with us hear at Michigan. Two recent graduate students have gone on to post-doc positions at Los Alamos National Lab and at the University of Utah.