NIMBioS Affiliates

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University of Tennessee Affiliates

Shigetoshi Eda

Department: School of Natural Resources: Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries + Microbiology

Specialty: Infectious diseases, immunology, epidemiology, mathematical modeling, on-site diagnosis

Email: seda@utk.edu

Xiaobing Feng

Department: Math

Specialty: Numerical analysis and scientific computing with a focus on numerical methods for (nonlinear) partial differential equations which arise from biology, engineering and physics

Email: xfeng@utk.edu

James Fordyce

Department: EEB

Specialty: Evolutionary ecology, plant-insect interactions

Email: jfordyce@utk.edu

Heidi Goodrich-Blair

Department: Microbiology

Specialty: Symbiosis

Email: hgblair@utk.edu

Matt Gray

Department: School of Natural Resources: Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries

Specialty: Disease Ecology, Epidemiology, Wetland Ecology

Email: mgray11@utk.edu

Kimberly Gwinn

Department: Entomology and Plant Pathology

Specialty: Crop and Pasture Production, Microbiology, Plant Biology, Zoology, Ecological Applications, Horticultural Production, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Agricultural Biotechnology, Medical Microbiology

Email: kgwinn@utk.edu

Tian Hong

Department: BCMB

Specialty: Complex biological processes, including development, disease progression and immune response

Email: hongtian@utk.edu

Yetta Jager

Department: EEB. ORNL Environmental Science Div.

Specialty: Theoretical Ecology, Conservation Biology

Email: jagerhi@ornl.gov

Michael Langston

Department: EECS

Specialty: Big data analytics, graph theory, life science applications

Email: langston@tennessee.edu

Brian O'Meara

Department: EEB

Specialty: Phylogenetics, macroevolution

Email: bomeara@utk.edu

Agricola Odoi

Department: Comparative Medicine

Specialty: GIS and spatial epidemiology in veterinary and public health

Email: aodoi@utk.edu

Olivia (Prosper) Feldman

Department: Math

Specialty: Infectious disease, modeling, population-dynamics

Email: oprosper@utk.edu

Kimberly Sheldon

Department: EEB

Specialty: Biogeography, physiological ecology, tropical ecology

Email: ksheldon@utk.edu

Jeremy Smith

Department: BCMB; UT/ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics

Specialty: Biological, environmental, physical, computational and neutron sciences; high-performance simulations

Email: smithjc@ornl.gov

Christopher Strickland

Department: Math

Specialty: Math modeling, complex systems, population ecology, computational/data-driven math

Email: cstric12@utk.edu

David Talmy

Department: Microbiology

Specialty: Microbial ecology, oceanography, biogeochemistry

Email: dtalmy@utk.edu

Albrecht von Arnim

Department: BCMB

Specialty: Regulation of protein synthesis (mRNA translation)

Email: vonarnim@utk.edu

Sebastian Stockmaier

Department: EEB

Specialty: Behavioral disease ecology, infection-induced behaviors, cross-species transmission

Email: sstockma@utk.edu

Ioannis Sgouralis

Department: Math

Specialty: Data Science, Computational Modeling, Bayesian Statistics, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Microscopy, Spectroscopy

Email: isgoural@utk.edu

Stephanie Kivlin

Department: EEB

Specialty: Ecosystem ecology, microbial ecology, global change

Email: skivlin@utk.edu

Claire Hemingway

Department: EEB

Specialty: Behavioral economics, decision-making strategies, foraging behavior, and plant-pollinator interactions

Email: chemingw@utk.edu

Mark Wilber

Department: School of Natural Resources

Specialty: Disease ecology, mathematical modeling, statistical modeling

Email: mwilber@utk.edu

Todd M. Freeberg

Department: Psychology

Specialty: Animal communication, social and vocal complexity

Email: tfreeber@utk.edu

Xinyue (Evelyn) Zhao

Department: Mathematics

Specialty: tumor growth modeling, atherosclerotic plaque formation, complex systems, free boundary problems

xzhao45@utk.edu 


External Affiliates

Lydia Bourouiba

Institution: MIT

Title: Biofluidics Engineer

Email: lbouro@mit.edu

K. Selcuk Candan

Institution: ASU

Title: Computer Scientist

Email: candan@asu.edu

Sadie Ryan

Institution: UFL

Title: Medical Geographer

Email: sjryan@ufl.edu

Yana Bromberg

Institution: Emory

Title: Bio-informaticist

Email: yana.bromberg@emory.edu

Gerardo Chowell

Institution: GSU

Title: Epidemiologist

Email: gchowell@gsu.edu

David Finnoff

Institution: University of Wyoming

Title: Economist

Email: finnoff@uwyo.edu

Huan Liu

Institution: ASU

Title: Computer Science Engineer

Email: huan.liu@asu.edu

Eric Lofgren

Institution: WSU

Title: Epidemiological Modeler

Email: eric.lofgren@wsu.edu

James Moody

Institution: Duke

Title: Sociologist

Email: jmoody77@duke.edu

Dana Pasquale

Institution: Duke

Title: Population Health Scientist

Email: dana.pasquale@duke.edu

Michael Reed

Institution: Tufts

Title: Conservation Biologist

Email: michael.reed@tufts.edu

Heather Szabo-Rogers

Institution: University of Saskatchewan

Title: Developmental Biologist

Email: h.szaborogers@usask.ca

Quantitative Bioscience at the University of Tennessee

A world-leader in quantitative bioscience disciplines, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, offers multiple routes to success for graduate education in quantitative connections to the life sciences. UT has a long history as one of the world's largest collections of faculty in quantitative bioscience, located in a variety of departments and research labs across campus. 

As the land-grant institution for Tennessee, there are numerous connections to agricultural and veterinary sciences available. Students also benefit from close contacts between UT and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Convergence research across mathematics, statistics, computational and data science is building new frameworks and novel ways for problem solving in the life sciences. Over the past decade, NIMBioS has fostered these efforts to develop cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary collaborative connections that address the vast array of challenging questions at the interface of the quantitative and life sciences.

If you'd like to learn more or get involved, please contact us. 

Mission

Our mission is to foster the growth of transdisciplinary approaches within mathematics and biology

Contact

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University of Tennessee
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Nina Fefferman, Director

NIMBioS

From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Any options, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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