Biomathematics


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Welcome

Biology is advancing at an unprecedented pace due to the emergence of high-throughput empirical methods, large-scale analysis, and increasing use of theoretical, computational and statistical models aimed at a more mechanistic understanding of biological phenomena. The UCLA Department of Biomathematics has a rich and long history in mathematical and computational biology of combining these approaches and is one of the few departments that emphasizes all of these components.

The research interests of our department range from basic to applied fields such as mathematical and statistical genetics, mathematical physiology, theoretical biophysics, evolutionary and systems biology, molecular and medical imaging, oncology, and clinical pharmacology. We foster and train undergraduates, clinical masters students, graduate students, and postdocs to understand empirical data, analyze it with cutting-edge algorithms, gain insight through the development of mechanistic, mathematical models, and collaborate with basic and clinical scientists in the design of novel, testable experiments.

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News, Events, and Seminars

Seminar: General Birth-Death Processes: Probabilities, Inference, and Applications

Speaker Forrest Crawford, Biomathematics Doctoral Student
Institution Department of Biomathematics, UCLA
Date Thursday May 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept Biomathematics
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Seminar: Genome-Based HIV-1 Incidence Assay with High Sensitivity and Specificity

Speaker Ha Youn Lee, Ph.D.
Institution Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology, University of Southern California
Date Thursday May 17, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Carol Newton 2012 Excellence in Education Award 2012 May 04, 2012

Carol Newton 2012 Excellence in Education Award 2012

Carol Newton, M.D., Ph.D. has been selected to receive the 2012 Excellence in Education Award from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in recognition of her commitment to… Read More →

Seminar: CANCELLED - Network controls on diversity in human and ecological systems

Speaker Evan Economo, Ph.D.
Institution Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Michigan Society of Fellows, Univ. of Michigan
Date Thursday April 05, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Stochastic nucleation and growth

Speaker Maria Rita D'Orsogna, Ph.D.
Institution Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, CSU Northridge
Date Thursday February 23, 2012 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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February 09, 2012

David Alexander in Nature article - Biostatistics: Revealing analysis

Alumnus David Alexander appears in Nature, Volume:482, Pages:263–265. Date published: (09 February 2012) Nature article Read More →

Seminar: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Speaker Eric Sobel, Ph.D.
Institution Adjunct Professor, Department of Human Genetics, UCLA
Date Thursday December 01, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Hemodynamic Optimization Parameter Evaluation for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

Speaker Gene A. Bornzin, Ph.D.
Institution Vice President, Fellow, Research, St. Jude Medical, Inc., Sylmar, California
Date Thursday November 17, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: A Parthian shot at neutrality: revisiting the neutrality assumption for tropical tree species

Speaker Jerome Chave, Ph.D
Institution Senior Researcher (Director) at National Center for Scientific Research, France
Date Thursday November 10, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Using Genomes to Track the Evolution of Life on Earth and Beyond

Speaker James Lake, Ph.D.
Institution Faculty Research Lectureship, 11/3/11
Date Thursday November 03, 2011 at 3:00 PM
Location Schoenberg Hall, Schoenberg Music Building
Sponsoring Dept 111th UCLA Faculty Research Lectureship
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Seminar: Modeling adventures in proteomics: statistical peptide identification from clustered tandem mass spectrometry data

Speaker Vladimir Minin, Ph.D.
Institution Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
Date Thursday October 27, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: The biofluiddynamics of fungal spore and genome dispersal

Speaker Marcus Roper, Ph.D.
Institution Professor, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
Date Thursday October 20, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Spatially-explicit ecological dynamics in streams and rivers

Speaker Kurt Anderson, Ph.D.
Institution Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, UC Riverside
Date Thursday October 13, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Scaling up the effects of physiological constraints from individuals to communities

Speaker Samraat Pawar, Ph.D.
Institution Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomathematics, UCLA
Date Thursday October 06, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Heatlh Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Using model-based methods to quantify exon-level gene expression from RNA-seq data

Speaker Zhaohui Steve Qin, Ph.D
Institution Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University.
Date Thursday September 29, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Congratulations - Mitchell Johnson September 06, 2011

Congratulations - Mitchell Johnson

Congratulations to Mitchell Johnson who filed his Master's thesis "Geometry and scaling in the vascular system: Theory vs MRI" on 9/6/11. Master's committee members: Dr. Van Savage, Dr. Tom Chou,… Read More →

Seminar: Geometry and scaling in the vascular system: Theory vs MRI

Speaker Mitchell Johnson
Institution Graduate Student, Department of Biomathematics, UCLA
Date Thursday September 01, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location AV-139 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Joint Analysis of Longitudinal Measurements and Competing Risks Failure Time Data”

Speaker Ning Li, Ph.D.
Institution Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Date Monday August 29, 2011 at 2:00 PM
Location 53-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Temperature Dependency of Energy and Mass Fluxes in Dynamic Energy Budget Theory.

Speaker Erik Muller, Ph.D.
Institution Associate Researcher, Marine Science Institute, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology , UC Santa Barbara
Date Thursday May 26, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 43-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Statistical and Computational Methods for Ancestry Estimation and Variable Selection in Genome-Scale Datasets

Speaker David Alexander
Institution UCLA Department of Biomathematics
Date Friday May 06, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Location 14-214U Center for the Health Sciences
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Congratulations - David Alexander May 06, 2011

Congratulations - David Alexander

Congratulations to David H. Alexander for successfully defending his doctoral thesis "Statistical and Computatonal Methods for Ancestry Estimation and Variable Selection in Genome-Scale Datasets" on May 6, 2011. Doctoral committee:… Read More →

Seminar: Bayesian Nonparametric Inference of Effective Population Trajectories with Gaussian Processes

Speaker Vladimir Minin, Ph.D
Institution Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
Date Monday January 31, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: A Tale of Two Competitions: Microscopic and Macroscopic

Speaker Royce Zia, Ph.D.
Institution Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, Virginia Tech
Date Friday January 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Location 53-105 Center for the Health Sciences
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Modeling Synaptic Transmission from a Molecular Level

Speaker David Holcman, Ph.D.
Institution Director of Interdisciplinary Research, Department of Biology and Mathematics, Ecole Normale Superieu
Date Friday January 14, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Location RESCHEDULED FROM 1/13/11: 33-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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January 06, 2011

Eric Schadt co-author “The Origin of the Haitian Cholera Outbreak Strain”

Alumni Eric Schadt and fellow scientists from Pacific Biosciences of California Inc. published the following article in the New England Journal of Medicine - "The Origin of the Haitian Cholera… Read More →

Congratulations - Jin Zhou December 10, 2010

Congratulations - Jin Zhou

Congratulations to Jin Zhou, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis, "Advances in Pedigree Analysis: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Strain Imputation, and Maternal Effects." Jin is pictured with her doctoral committee, (left to… Read More →

Seminar: Advances in Pedigree Analysis: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, Strain Imputation, and Maternal Effects

Speaker Jin Zhou, Graduate Student
Institution Department of Biomathematics, UCLA
Date Friday December 10, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Location AV-139 CHS
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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December 03, 2010

Marc Suchard awarded Google Research Award

Congratulations to alumnus Marc Suchard (Class of 2002) who recently received a Google Research Award to work on problems in massively parallel multinomial logit regression. Read More →

Seminar: The Continuum of Modeling and Simulation in Basic and Health Research and Therapeutic Discovery and Development: A Personal Overview with Examples

Speaker Paolo Vicini, Ph.D.
Institution Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics and Metabolism, Pfizer Global Research and Development, San Diego
Date Thursday December 02, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Location 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Resolving Cooperative Ca2+ Binding Kinetics Using Compartmental Modeling

Speaker Guido Faas, Ph.D.
Institution Assistant Researcher, Department of Neurology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Date Thursday November 18, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Location 43-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Advanced Theoretical Models for Analyzing Single Molecule Force Measurements

Speaker Gaurav Arya, Ph.D.
Institution Assistant Professor, Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego
Date Thursday November 04, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Location 43-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Methods for Detecting Interactions in High-throughput Genetic Data

Speaker Alison Motsinger, Ph.D.
Institution Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
Date Monday November 01, 2010 at 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location Gonda Center Conference Room - Room 1357
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Human Genetics
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Seminar: Artificial Life Approaches for Understanding and Applying Biological Concepts

Speaker Reiji Suzuki, Ph.D.
Institution Associate Professor, Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Japan
Date Thursday October 28, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Location 43-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Unidentifiable models and the search for identifiable parameter combinations

Speaker Nikki Meshkat
Institution Graduate Student, UCLA Mathematics
Date Thursday October 21, 2010 at 4:00pm
Location 43-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Information Geometry: Applications of General Relativity to Cardiology, Biostatistics and Neuroscience

Speaker Nicholas Wisniewski, Ph.D.
Institution Postgraduate Researcher, UCLA Department of Medicine
Date Thursday October 14, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Location 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Optimization in High-Dimensions: Acceleration, Annealing, and GPUs

Speaker Kenneth Lange, Ph.D.
Institution Professor, UCLA Departments of Biomathematics, Human Genetics and Statistics
Date Thursday October 07, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Location 43-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: Virtual Surgery: Scientific Computing in Real Time

Speaker Joseph Teran, PhD
Institution Assistant Professor, UCLA Department of Mathematics
Date Thursday September 30, 2010 at 4:00pm
Location 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS)
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Biomathematics
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Seminar: F-Statistics: A Methodology for Learning about History of Many Populations

Speaker Nick Patterson, PhD
Institution Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
Date Monday September 13, 2010 at 11:00 am
Location Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium
Sponsoring Dept UCLA Human Genetics
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