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This is the homepage of the Evolutionary Systems Biology Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It gives an overview of group members, research, news, events and other group info.
Group Meetings Spring 2012
Please email Laurence Loewe, if you would like to present here.
| Date | Time + Place |
Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, 10 Feb 2012 |
TownCenter, WID |
Darwin Day |
A celebration of the diversity in biology. |
| Fri, 17 Feb 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Laurence Loewe |
NFsim: Rule-based modelling for systems biology |
| Wed, 22 Feb 2012 | 3:30pm Genetics Colloquium | Sushmita Roy |
Reconstruction and analysis of evolution of condition-specific transcriptional programs |
| Fri, 24 Feb 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Laurence Loewe |
Naming contest for basic concepts of simulation |
| Fri, 2 Mar 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Everybody |
What everybody is working on + Open discussion: How does it all fit together? |
| Fri, 9 Mar 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Kurt Ehlert |
Stochastic simulations via the Sorting Direct Method |
| Fri, 16 Mar 2012 | 3:40pm, WID SysBio Cone |
Very informal seminar series |
How to store simulation data |
| Fri, 23 Mar 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Philip Poon |
Stochastic simulations via the Next Reaction Method |
| Fri, 30 Mar 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Katie Scheuer |
Drosophila Clock |
| Mini-break |
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| Wed, 18 Apr 2012 |
UW-Madison | Undergraduate symposium |
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| Fri, 20 Apr 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Iratxo Flores-Lorca | Solvers for differential equations |
| Fri, 27 Apr 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Bob Mau |
Measuring DNA Sequence Diversity |
| Fri, 4 May 2012 | No Meeting |
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| Fri, 11 May 2012 | 3:30pm, 168 Noland Hall, cookies from 3:10pm in room 163 |
Nipam Patel (http://www.patellab.org/) |
Bio Colloquium: Evolution of Development of Arthropod Body Patterning |
| Fri, 18 May 2012 | 3:40pm, WID room 3160 | Bob Mau | Estimating Distributions of Mutational Effects from Diversity |
| Fri, 25 May 2012 |
3:30pm, WID room 3130 |
Philip Poon |
Very Informal Seminar Series |
| Fri, 15 June 2012 |
3:30pm, WID room 3130 | Pupa Gilbert (physics) |
Very Informal Seminar Series |
| Thu, 19 July 2012 | 1-5pm, TBA |
Joint Population Genetics Meeting |
Group Members and their Research
Our Group is composed of members from a diverse mix of disciplines working on very divers projects. Here is a brief overview.
| Current Group Members |
Background |
Focus |
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| Ehlert, Kurt |
undergraduate |
math, neuroscience |
implementing a stochastic simulation algorithm |
| Flores-Lorca, Iratxo | special student | applied math; biochemistry; bio |
making ordinary differential equation solvers accessible |
| Keel, Seth |
solutions architect |
computer science; genetics |
computing infrastructure, evolution@home, genetics simulations |
| Loewe, Laurence |
principal investigator |
biology; mol sys bio; theor. population genetics; evolution |
evolutionary systems biology; multi-locus population genetics of mutations; see my research interests |
| Mau, Bob |
biostatistician |
statistics, genomics |
distributions of mutational effects |
| Myers, Matt |
undergraduate | computer science |
implementations in C++ |
| Poon, Philip |
postdoc | physics, applied math, numerics |
ABC, numerics, simulations |
| Scheuer, Katherine |
undergraduate | biology | circadian clocks in Drosophila |
| Payeng Yang | undergraduate | natural sciences, majoring in biology | parameters of the cholesterol pathway |
| Former Group Members |
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| Holmes, Peter |
undergraduate Summer 2011 |
math, chem. eng. |
implementing a stochastic simulation algorithm |
Please email the Laurence Loewe if you have any questions about the group or would like to visit.
Group Meetings Fall 2011
| Date | Time + Place |
Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29-30 Sept 2011 |
Whole day, WID |
MathBio3 | Conference on Mathematical Modelling in Biology. Please go there as much as you can. See weblink. |
| Thur, 13 Oct 2011 |
1:30pm, WID room 3160 | Bob Mau |
Comparative genomics of pathogenic bacteria |
| Wed, 19 Oct 2011 | 12pm, WID room 3160 |
Laurence Loewe |
Challenges in antibiotics resistance evolution |
| Wed, 2 Nov 2011 |
3:30pm Genetics Colloquium | Michael Lynch (Bloomington, IN) |
Mutation and Evolution (Host: L Loewe) |
| Thur, 3 Nov 2011 | 12pm Evolution Seminar Series | Michael Lynch (Bloomington, IN) | The causes and consequences of meiosis suppression in Daphnia (Host: L Loewe) |
| Fri, 4 Nov 2011 |
2:30pm, WID room 3160 | Payeng Yang |
Parameters in the cholesterol biosynthesis pathway |
| Wed, 9 Nov 2011 | 12pm, WID room 3160 | Katie Scheuer | The circadian clock of Drosophila |
| Thur, 10 Nov 2011 |
2:25pm Van Vleck Hall, room 901 |
David Anderson (UW-Madison, Math) |
[Probability seminar] Highly recommended for all maths/simulation researchers |
| Wed, 16 Nov 2011 | 12pm, WID room 3160 | Philip Poon |
Thoughts on Approximate Bayesian Computation |
| DateChange: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 |
TimeChange: 4pm, WID room 3160 |
Seth Keel and Matt Myers |
How to handle code effectively using version control, issue tracking and other tools. |
| Wed, 30 Nov 2011 | 12pm, WID room 3160 | Group discussion |
How to handle code effectively using version control, issue tracking and other tools. |
| DateChange: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 |
TimeChange: 4pm, Biotechnology Center Auditorium |
David J. Baumler (UW-Madison, Genome Center of Wisconsin) |
[CIBM Seminar] Investigating Modern-Day Disease by Using Metabolic Models of Bacteria from the Past |
| Wed, 7 Dec 2011 |
4pm 140 Bardeen, Statistics |
David Anderson (UW-Madison, Math) | [Statistics seminar] Highly recommended for all maths/simulation researchers |
| Wed, 14 Dec 2011 | TimeChange: 12:30pm, WID room 3160 | Iratxo Flores-Lorca |
Informal chat about the ODE solver CVODEs. Not for biologists (at least not for now). |
| Wed, 21 Dec 2011 | 12pm? WID room 3160 | Laurence Loewe |
Next Reaction Method. |
