Thursday, January 28, 2010

Janet  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.

Stay tuned after the credits for some sea squirt trivia, courtesy of C. Wilson.

Duration: 38 minutes

Discussants:(in alphabetical order)

Sayanti Bannerji (Graduate Student, OSU)

Salma Quraishi (Res. Asst Prof, UTSA)

Kelly Suter (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Todd Troyer (Asst Prof, UTSA)

Charles Wilson (Prof, UTSA)

acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.