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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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May 04, 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
Alumnus David Alexander appears in Nature, Volume:482, Pages:263–265. Date published: (09 February 2012)
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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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September 06, 2011
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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May 06, 2011
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
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 →
December 10, 2010
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
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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