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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
May 06, 2013
Alumnus David Alexander co-authored Nature Methods article "Nonhybrid, finished microbial genome assemblies from long-read SMRT sequencing data". They have created a technology that for the first time enables researchers to… Read More →
Seminar: Integration of high throughput miRNA and mRNA data through weighted gene co-expression network analysis |
| Speaker | David Elashoff, Ph.D. |
| Institution | Professor of Medicine and Biostatistics, Director of the Department of Medicine Statistics Core, UCLA |
| Date | Thursday March 07, 2013 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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Seminar: Large-Deviations Theory for Living Systems |
| Speaker | D. Eric Smith, Ph.D. |
| Institution | External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Date | Thursday December 06, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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Seminar: Highly Accurate Consensus Sequence and Genome Assembly using PacBio® RS Sequence Data |
| Speaker | David Alexander, Ph.D. |
| Institution | Senior Algorithms Engineer, Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, CA |
| Date | Thursday November 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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Seminar: Modeling Tumor Growth in an Evolving Organ: a Diffuse Domain Approach |
| Speaker | Yao-Li Chuang, Ph.D. |
| Institution | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, Computational Biology Program, University of New Mexico |
| Date | Thursday November 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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Seminar: Automated measurements from images and video to enable better modeling: Vascular geometry, consumer-resource interactions, and bacterial colony sizes |
| Speaker | Van Savage, Ph.D. and Pamela Yeh, Ph.D. |
| Institution | V. Savage, Ph.D., Asst. Prof., UCLA Dept. of Biomathematics; P. Yeh, Ph.D., Adj. Asst. Prof., UCLA Dept. of Env. Health Sciences |
| Date | Thursday November 01, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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Seminar: Evolution of Aging, Mortality and Immortality in Bacteria |
| Speaker | Lin Chao, Ph.D. |
| Institution | Professor, Section of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego |
| Date | Thursday October 25, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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Seminar: A Mathematical Model of Intimal Thickening: an Application to Atherosclerosis |
| Speaker | Pak-Wing Fok, Ph.D. |
| Institution | Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware |
| Date | Thursday October 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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Seminar: Networks of Neurons Create Complex Dynamics: Statistical Physics and a Simple Model for the Control of Breathing |
| Speaker | Alex Levine, Ph.D. |
| Institution | Professor, Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Physics & Astronomy, UCLA |
| Date | Thursday October 11, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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Seminar: Dynamic Mutation Selection Balance as an Evolutionary Attractor |
| Speaker | Sidhartha Goyal, Ph.D. |
| Institution | Postdoctoral Scholar, The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,UC Santa Barbara |
| Date | Thursday October 04, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 13-105 Center for the Health Sciences (CHS) |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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August 14, 2012
Marc Suchard (along with co-author Philippe Lemey, Alexei Drummond and Andrew Rambaut) won the 2011 Mitchell Prize from the International Society of Bayesian Analysis for his paper entitled "Bayesian phylogeography… Read More →
June 25, 2012
Congratulations to MSTP and first year Biomath graduate student Wesley Kerr for having two papers recently accepted for publicaton.
Kerr WT, Anderson A, Xia H, Braun ES, Lau EP, Cho… Read More →
Seminar: Modeling cancer stem cell state transitions and extinction |
| Speaker | Mary Sehl, M.D., Ph.D. |
| Institution | Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCLA |
| Date | Thursday June 07, 2012 at 4:00 PM |
| Location | 23-105 Center for the Health Sciences |
| Sponsoring Dept | UCLA Biomathematics |
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May 30, 2012
Congratulations to (L to R) Tony Dell, Van Savage and Sam Pawar. Their article “Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths” was just published in Nature <Read More →
May 24, 2012
Congratulations to Forrest Crawford who successfully defended his doctoral thesis "General birth-death processes: probabilities, inference, and applications" on May 24, 2012. Doctoral committee: Marc Suchard, M.D., Ph.D. (Chair), Kenneth Lange,… Read More →
May 23, 2012
Carol Newton, M.D., Ph.D. was one of the recipients of the 2012 Excellence in Education Award from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in recognition of her commitment… Read More →
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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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: 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 →
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 →
