Duke University's First Annual Conference on Mathematical Immunology


Abstracts

Rustom Antia

Department of Biology, Emory University

Modelling Immune memory and the turnover of memory cells.

Sally Blower

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco

A tale of two futures:HIV and antiviral therapy in San Francisco

Lindsay Cowell

Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University

The nucleotide-replacement spectrum under somatic hypermutation exhibits microsequence dependence that is strand-symmetric and distinct from that under germline mutation.

Vitaly Ganusov

Department of Biology, Emory University

The effect of heterogeneity on the evolution of parasite virulence

Byron Goldstein

Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Lab

Modeling Peptide-MHC Complex/T Cell Receptor Dynamics in the Immunological Synapse

Garnett Kelso

Department of Immunology, Duke University

Populations dynamics and genetics in lymphocytes

Tom Kepler

Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University

Evolution and Somatic Hypermutation: The coevolution of subtle biases.

Can Kesmir

Theoretical Biology group, Utrecht University

A first attempt on spatial modeling of germinal center reactions.

Steven Kleinstein

Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

Toward quantitative simulation of germinal center dynamics: Biological and modeling insights from experimental validation.

Patrick Nelson

Center for Mathematics and Computation in the Life Sciences and Medicine, Duke University

Patient specificity and the difference in the half-life of productively infected T-cells.

Mihaela Oprea

Department of Computer Science, University of New Mexico

Codon usage bias directs somatic hypermutation to the complementarity-determining regions and away from the framework regions of antibody genes.

Sergei Pilyugin

Department of Mathematics, University of Florida

Estimating birth and death of immune cell populations using cell cycle based models.

Maureen Sartor

Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University

When to switch drugs: a probabilistic model for drug resistance in HIV drug therapy.

Elissa Schwartz

Division of Nephrology, Mount Sinai Medical Center

Effect of HAART on Incidence of HIV-Associated Nephropathy.

Greg Sempowski

Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University

Effect of Thymectomy on Human Peripheral T Cell Pools.

Carl Simon

Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan

Vaccine models

Herbert Struemper

Biological Systems Modeling, Entelos, Inc.

Modeling T Cell Dynamics Following Antiretroviral Therapy

Jan Wigginton

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan

A Mathematical Model of the Human Immune Response to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection

Ping Ye

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan

The effect of different viral strains on thymocyte development during HIV-1 infection


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