The Centre for Mathematical Biology

News

The opening meeting of The Centre for Mathematical Biology took place on Wednesday November 15th 2006.

The speakers were:

• Prof. Mick Roberts, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences: Pandemic influenza: How to model a virus that doesn’t (yet) exist
• Dr Alona Ben-Tal, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences: The fascinating complexity of respiratory rhythm generation in the brainstem.
• Dr Beatrix Jones and Ms Marie Fitch, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences: A comparison of graph based methods for classifying gene functions from microarray data.
• Dr Carlo Laing, Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences: Modelling bursting in an electric fish neuron.
• Prof. Mike Hendy was unable to attend. His presentation Modelling mitochondrial heteroplasmy is scheduled for early 2007.

Image: Graeme Wake

Aim

The Centre for Mathematical Biology aims to

• Promote the application of modern mathematical concepts and techniques to biological problems.
• Promote the benefits to biological research of developing and applying mathematical models.
• Provide support for the development of mathematical biology within the College of Sciences and the University.
• Promote the use of mathematical techniques within the life sciences in New Zealand and internationally.
• Encourage students to undertake postgraduate study in mathematical biology.

For more information contact Prof. Mick Roberts.

Members

• Professor Mick Roberts
• Dr Alona Ben-Tal
• Dr Nicoleen Cloete
• Professor Mike Hendy
• Dr Barbara Holland
• Dr Beatrix Jones
• Dr Carlo Laing
• Professor Graeme Wake
• Dr Ruili Wang

Students

PhD Students:

• Ronald Begg (Cantebury)
• Amanda Elvin
• Sharleen Harper
• Mingzhe Liu
• Weiwei Luo
• Joanne Mann
• Busayayama Pim (Mahidol)
• Galkadowite Senaratne
• Klaus Schliep
• Liat Shavit

Masters Students

• Marie Fitch
• Lillian Werner
• Tim White

Royal Society Teaching Fellow

• Gayle Britten

Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Dr Michael Woodhams