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NIMBioS videos feature short interviews with NIMBioS postdoctoral fellows, collaborators, and scientists who visit NIMBioS.

 

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NIMBioS' Songwriter-in-Residence Program encouraged songwriting involving ideas of modern biology and the lives of scientists.

 
 
 

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Structural balance in the social networks of a wild mammal.
Spatial subsidies, trophic state, and community structure: Examining the effects of leaf litter input on ponds
The impact of bed-net use on malaria prevalence
Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures (Infec. Genet.Evol.)
Species tree inference by the STAR method and its generalizations
Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures (SACEMA)
Global mapping of infectious disease
Optimal control in individual-based models: Implications from aggregated methods
Behavioural changes and the adaptive diversification of pigeons and doves
On the role of screening and educational campaigns on controlling HCV in correctional institutions
Fatal or harmless: Extreme bistability induced by sterilizing, sexually transmitted pathogens
Identifying Transmission Cycles at the Human-Animal Interface: The Role of Animal Reservoirs in Maintaining Gambiense Human African Trypanosomiasis
Homosexuality as a consequence of epigenetically canalized sexual development
Mathematical modeling of viral zoonoses in wildlife
Stochastic models for competing species with a shared pathogen
Understanding TB latency using computational and dynamic modelling procedures
Incentives in the family II: Behavioral dynamics and the evolution of non-costly signaling
Communicating science through music: A case study from mathematics and biology
Multiple merger genes genealogies in two species: Monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly for two examples of Lambda coalescents
Modeling stabilizing selection: Expanding the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model of adaptive evolution
Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favors escape from parasites and pathogens
Human origins and the transition from promiscuity to pair-bonding
On the evolutionary origins of the egalitarian syndrome
Using optimal control theory to identify network structures that foster synchrony
How facilitation may interfere with ecological speciation
Genetic evidence for hybridization in red oaks (Quercus sect. Lobatae, Fagaceae)
Beyond Lyme: Aeitology of tick-borne human diseases with emphasis on the south-eastern United States
How a hurricane disturbance influences extreme CO2 fluxes and variance in a tropical forest
Optimal control of integrodifference equations with growth-harvesting-dispersal order
Data-driven models for regional coral-reef dynamics

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The results produced from NIMBioS research activities are important in measuring our success. Click here for an online form to report publications and/or other products that have resulted from your NIMBioS activities. Click here for information about how to acknowledge NIMBioS.

 
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Matan Bogomolsky

Can the friend of my friend be my enemy?

Just as humans can follow complex social situations in deciding who to befriend or to abandon, it turns out that animals use the same level of sophistication in judging social configurations, according to a new study that advances our understanding of the structure of animal social networks.
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Citation: Ilany A, Barocas A, Koren L, Kam M, Geffen E. 2013. Structural balance in the social networks of a wild mammal. Animal Behaviour. Published [online] 22 April 2013.
 
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Registration Open for Summer STEM Camp

Middle school-aged girls interested in STEM can now register for the Adventures in STEM day camp to be held June 3-7, 2013, on the UTK campus. Students will be immersed in a week full of hands-on activities, lab visits, and team projects in labs and classrooms that expose the exciting challenges of being a scientist or researcher. Application deadline: April 19. For more information about the day camp and how to apply, click here.

 
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Species montage. NIMBioS Interdisciplinary Seminars will resume in the fall semester, beginning on Tuesday, August 27.



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Analyzing Animal Vocal Sequences

Applications are now being accepted for the NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Analyzing Animal Vocal Communication Sequences, to be held October 21-23, 2013, at NIMBioS. The workshop goal is to bridge the gap between mathematical and biological researchers with an interest in the quantitative analysis of animal vocal sequences. Application deadline: June 24, 2013. Click here for a descriptive flyer. For more information about the workshop and how to apply click here.



 
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New! Apply for the Graduate Student Fellowship

NIMBioS is pleased to begin offering fellowships for visits to NIMBioS for up to several months by graduate students interested in pursuing research with NIMBioS senior personnel, postdoctoral fellows or working group participants. The program is designed to facilitate graduate student training while fostering research at the interface of mathematics and biology. For more information about the fellowship and how to apply, click here.



 
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Requests for NIMBioS Support

Requests for NIMBioS support for Working Groups, Investigative Workshops, and Sabbatical Fellows are considered two times per year, with deadlines on March 1 and September 1. The upcoming deadline will be September 1, 2013 for activities beginning in Spring 2014. Applications for Short-term Visits are considered four times per year, with deadlines on March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1.

All areas of research at the interface of biology and mathematics will be considered, but we are especially interested in activities expanding beyond the areas of research supported to date. Potential organizers of activities in areas of molecular biology, cell biology, network biology, immunology and systems biology are particularly encouraged to submit requests for support of Working Groups or Investigative Workshops.



 
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Call for Postdoctoral Fellowships

NIMBioS considers applications for postdoctoral scholarship two times per year, with deadlines on September 1 and December 11. We are particularly interested in requests to support research that integrates diverse fields, requires synthesis at multiple scales, and/or makes use of or requires development of new mathematical/ computational approaches. Complete the online application and submit a brief project description, references, and CV following the guidelines available at http://www.nimbios.org/postdocs/.



 
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Apply for the Teacher Collaboration Program

NIMBioS is now accepting applications from math and biology/science teachers for the Teacher Collaboration Program, which provides links between teachers, scientists, and educators with an interest in making connections between mathematics and biology. NIMBioS will pair teachers with an interest in mathematics and biology with active researchers in the math biology community. For more information about the program and how to apply click here.



 
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Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013) is an initiative of mathematical sciences organizations around the world designed to showcase the ways in which the mathematical sciences can be useful in tackling our world's problems. This initiative has led to plans for many events to take place in 2013, including workshops, public lectures, art exhibits, an international open source competition and many other activities at institutes around the world. NIMBioS is a partner organization of MPE2013. Click here to view MPE2013-related activities at NIMBioS.



 

New!   Watch NIMBioS Seminars Online

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Mathematical modeling of liver injury from acetaminophen overdose War and space: Simulating the evolution of old world complex societies Modeling demography of a pre-Columbian Southwest US population

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