Schedule   Participants   1998-1999 Mathematics in Biology 

Model systems have played an important role in understanding the basic processes in development, and this workshop will focus on a number of such systems. These include (i) growth, pattern formation and gene expression in limb development, (ii) bacterial signal transduction, control of the flagellar motor and spatial pattern formation, (iii) spatial pattern formation and differentiation in the fruit fly Drosophila, (iv) signalling, chemotaxis, aggregation and pattern formation in the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and (v) axonal growth and guidance in the developing nervous system. The program in each of the major areas will include an overview by a leading experimentalist and several talks devoted to mathematical modeling off the basic processes involved in that system.

This workshop will emphasize the modeling of complicated biological systems, the qualitative and numerical analysis of the resulting model equations, and the interpretation and modification of models in the light of experimental data. The mathematical topics that arise in these models include dynamical systems theory, partial differential equations, and large-scale numerical sumulations. The breadth of model systems involved should lead to extensive cross-fertilization between these areas, encourage new collaborations, and provide new problems in modeling and mathematical analysis.

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LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

Name	Affiliation	Department
Eshel Ben-Jacob	Tel-Aviv University	School of Physics and Astronomy
Daniel Bentil	University of Massachusetts	Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
Dean Bottino	University of Utah	Dept. of Mathematics
Nicholas Britton	University of Bath	School of Mathematics
J. Budnar
Edmund Crampin	Oxford University	Centre for Mathematical Biology
John Dallon	Heriot-Watt University	Dept. of Mathematics
J. Demongeot	Universite J. Fourier	Faculte de Medecine
Robert Dillon	Tulane University	Dept. of Mathematics
Victoria Foe	University of Washington	Dept. of Zoology
Eamonn Gaffney	Centre for Mathematical Biology	Mathematical Institute
Miguel A. Herrero	University Complutense de Madrid	Faculty of Math
Thomas Hillen	University of Utah	Dept. of Mathematics
Thomas Hoefer	Humboldt University Berlin	Theoretical Biolphysics, Institute of Biology
Jaap Kaandorp	University of Amsterdam	Parallel Scientific Computing & Simulation Group
Paul Kulesa	California Institute of Technology	The Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology
Rene Lefever	Universite Libra de Bruxelles	Service de Chimie-Physique, CP 231
Herbert Levine	University of California--San Diego	Dept. of Physics
Howard Levine	Iowa State University	Dept. of Mathematics
Philip Maini	University of Oxford	Math Institute
Daphne Manoussaki	NIH/NIDCD/LCB	Dept. of Applied Mathematics
Georgiy Medvedev	Boston University	Dept. of Mathematics
Hans Meinhardt	Max-Planck Institut fuer Entwicklungsbiologie
Atsushi Mochizuki	Kyushu University	Dept. of Biology
Nick Monk	University of Sheffield	Developmental Genetics Programme
Gary Odell	University of Washington	Dept. of Zoology
George Oster	University of California--Berkeley	Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology
Hans G. Othmer	University of Utah	Dept. of Mathematics
Kevin Painter	University of Utah	Dept. of Mathematics
Eirikur Palsson	University of Utah	Dept. of Mathematics
J. Pearson	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Applied Theoretical Physics Division
Faustino Sanchez-Garduno	Cuidad Universitaria	Departamento de Matematicas
Ofer Schochet	Tel-Aviv University	School of Physics and Astronomy
Lee Segel	Weizmann Institute of Science	Dept. of Applied Math & Computer Science
David Sharp	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Todd Shaw	University of Utah	Dept. of Mathematics
Peter Spiro	University of Utah	Dept. of Mathematics
Philippe Tracqui	UJF, Fac de Medecine	TIMC-IMAG, CNRS UMR 5525
Kees Weijer	University of Dundee	Dept. of Anatomy and Physiology
David Wollkind	Washington State University	Dept. of Pure and Applied Mathematics