The Society for Mathematical Biology
Annual Meeting and Conference, July 25-28, 2012
Location: Knoxville Convention Center - First convention center in Tennessee to be Green Certified.
Hosts: NIMBioS and The University of Tennessee
Theme: Mathematics and Biology: Interdisciplinary Connections and Living Systems
The 2012 Annual Meeting and associated research and education conference for The Society for Mathematical Biology will be held in Knoxville, Tennessee from July 25-28, 2012. The conference theme is Mathematics and Biology: Interdisciplinary Connections and Living Systems and the gathering is being hosted by the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) and the University of Tennessee. The conference will be held at the Knoxville Convention Center and associated activities will be held at NIMBioS before and after the conference.
Registration is now open. The early registration deadline is June 15.
Call for Abstracts / Deadline extension: Abstract submission for minisymposia talks and contributed oral presentations is now closed.The deadline for abstract submission for poster presentations has been extended until June 15, 2012. Descriptive flyer
Minisymposia have been announced. Twenty-five minisymposia topics have been selected for SMB 2012.
Plenary Speakers:
| Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers, Section of Integrative Biology, Univ. of Texas, Austin |
| Dr. Becca Asquith, Dept. of Medicine, Imperial College, London |
| Dr. Troy Day, Depts. of Mathematics & Biology, Queen's Univ. |
| Dr. Michio Kondoh, Dept. of Environmental Solution Technology, Ryukoku Univ. (Akira Okubo Prize Talk) |
| Dr. Claire J. Tomlin, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Berkeley |
| Dr. Leor Weinberger, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, Univ. of California, San Francisco |
Scientific Advisory Committee
| Helen Byrne (Univ. of Nottingham) | Ramit Mehr (Bar-Ilan Univ.) | |
| Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State Univ.) | Mike Mesterton-Gibbons (Florida State Univ.) | |
| Eric Cytrynbaum (Univ. of British Columbia) | Alex Mogilner (Univ. of California, Davis) | |
| André M. de Roos (Univ. of Amsterdam) | Alan Perelson (Los Alamos National Laboratory) | |
| Gerda de Vries (Univ. of Alberta) | Nanako Shigesada (Doshisha Univ.) | |
| Steve Frank (Univ. of California, Irvine) | Kristin Swanson (Univ. of Washington) | |
| Wayne Getz (Univ. of California, Berkeley) | Yuan Lou (Ohio State Univ.) |
Local Organizing Committee
| Louis J. Gross, Chair | Sergey Gavrilets |
| Judy Day | Yetta Jager |
| Vitaly Ganusov | Suzanne Lenhart |
Meeting Secretary: Chandra Eskridge
Activities at NIMBioS surrounding SMB:
The application period for the following activities held just before
and just after the SMB Conference is now closed.
NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Modeling Dengue Fever
NIMBioS Investigative Workshop on Communication in Collaboration: Leading Collaborative Groups
Further details will be posted here (http://www.nimbios.org/SMB2012/) as they become available. Those with questions may contact the conference secretary, Ms. Chandra Eskridge (smb2012@nimbios.org).
Follow conference details on Twitter @MathBio2012.
