Mathbio Journal Club 2020

The Penn State Mathbio journal club, in association with the Center for Mathematical Biology and Theoretical biology seminar meets Friday 3:45 - 4:45, in McAllister 102 (unless otherwise stated)

Presenters and papers

• Jan 24, 2020
  • Tim, A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators, also here
• Jan 31, 2020
  • Discussion lead by Damie
  • Insect seasonality: circle map analysis of temperature-driven life cycles by Powell. Theoretical Population Biology, 2005, v. 67 (3), pp. 161. DOI:10.1016/j.tpb.2004.10.001
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• Feb 07, 2020
  • Discussion lead by Caitlin
  • From grid cells to place cells: A mathematical model by Solstad. Hippocampus, 2006, v. 16 (12), pp. 1026. DOI:10.1002/hipo.20244
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  • A general background reveiw article that’s related is Place Cells, Grid Cells, Attractors, and Remapping by Jeffery. Neural Plasticity, 2011, article 182602. DOI:10.1155/2011/182602 (Download)
• Feb 14, 2020
  • Discussion lead by Connor
  • Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory by Pavlogiannis. Nature Communications Biology, 2018.
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• Feb 21, 2020
  • Discussion lead by Ellie
  • The paradox of highly effective sofosbuvir-based combination therapy despite slow viral decline: can we still rely on viral kinetics? by Nguyen. Scientific Reports, 2017, v. 7 (1), pp. . DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-09776-z
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• Feb 28, 2020
  • Discussion lead by Thu
  • Modeling the dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes in humans during malaria infection by Cao. eLife, 2019, v. 8 (), pp. . DOI:10.7554/elife.49058
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• Mar 06, 2020
  • Friday before Spring break
• Mar 13, 2020
  • Spring break
• Mar 20, 2020
  • Discussion lead by Hide
  • Information limitation and the dynamics of coupled ecological systems by Hein. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019, v. 4 (1), pp. 82. DOI:10.1038/s41559-019-1008-x
  • Beyond an ecological ideal gas law by O’Dwyer. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019, v. 4 (1), pp. 14. DOI:10.1038/s41559-019-1066-0
  • Both are paywalled, so here’s the Hein and Martin (with supplement) and O’Dwyer’s commentary
• Mar 27, 2020
  • Discussion lead by David
  • Cardiomyocyte Calcium Ion Oscillations—Lessons From Physics by Cohen. Frontiers in Physiology, 2020, v. 11 (), pp. . DOI:10.3389/fphys.2020.00164
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• Apr 03, 2020
• Apr 10, 2020
• Apr 17, 2020
• Apr 24, 2020
• May 01, 2020

Paper ideas

Ideas?

• Disease transmission and introgression can explain the long-lasting contact zone of modern humans and Neanderthals by Greenbaum. Nature Communications, 2019, v. 10 (1), pp. . DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-12862-7

• Statistical physics of self-replication by England. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013. An interestesting recent theory on the origins of life.

• Forming and waking dormant cells: The ppGpp ribosome dimerization persister model by Wood. Biofilm, 2020, v. 2, pp. 100018.

• Dispersal polymorphism and the speed of biological invasions by Elliott and Cornell. PLoS ONE, 2012, v. 7 (7), pp. e40496. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0040496 Makes some interesting claims about the role of mutation in setting invasion speeds.

• The hipster effect: When anti-conformists all look the same by D. Touboul. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2019, v. 24 (8), pp. 4379.