Friday, July 17

CP23
Biology I

10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Chair: Rebecca Tyson, University of Washington
Room: Sidney Smith 1084

10:30 Model and Analysis of Chemotactic Salmonella Typhimurium Patterns in Semi-Solid Medium

Rebecca Tyson, S. R. Lubkin, and J. D. Murray, University of Washington

10:45 Estimating Rate Constants in Surface-Volume Biological Reactions

David A. Edwards, University of Delaware; Byron Goldstein, Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Donald S. Cohen, California Institute of Technology

11:00 Direct and Inverse Problems Associated with Modeling the Dynamics of a Skin Receptor

Jonathan Bell, State University of New York, Buffalo

11:15 Morphologic Studies of Sickled Erythrocytes Using Direct Dimensional Measurements

Deanna A. Hurst and H. Westcott Vayo, University of Toledo; and Neil A. Lachant, Medical College of Ohio

11:30 Mathematically Modeling the Effects of Paclitaxel and Cisplatin on Cancer

J. Carl Panetta, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

11:45 Qualitative Validation for Nonlinear Biological Systems: Application to the Algal Growth in Bioreactors

Jean-Luc Gouze, INRIA, France; and Olivier Bernard, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium