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Mathematical Biology

Significant interactions between mathematics and biology began at least a century ago in population dynamics models. Today, mathematical ecology and population biology represents the confluence of two great traditions, one originating with the work of Lotka and Volterra in their study of population dynamics, and a second developed by Haldane, Fisher, and Wright to study the mechanisms of inheritance.

We have similar foundational contributions from mathematics to a variety of areas in biology: Poiseuille's Law for blood flow, the Hodgkin-Huxley model for electrophysiology, the Michaelis-Menten relation for enzyme kinetics, and the Berg and Brown model for bacterial chemotaxis are just four of many possible examples.

Powerful new techniques in molecular biology, physiology, genetics, and ecology are taking biology into a much more quantitative era. As mathemticians analyze the increasing volume of data and model increasingly more intricate biological phenomenon, we are seeing more and more how mathematics is a unifying force in biology.

Thus modern biology is calling upon a team of experts in order to continue to keep pace with the vast array of quantity information from the field and from the laboratory. Today, mathematicians with expertise as diverse as non-linear partial differential equations, dynamical systems, probability, statisitics and stochastic processes, combinatorial mathematics, graphs and networks, and low dimensional topology are engaged in this broad endeavor.

Members

Pedro Aceves Sanchez

Pedro Aceves Sanchez

Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Member of the Graduate Faculty
520-621-6892
ENR2 S364
Christopher Henderson

Christopher Henderson

Assistant Professor, Mathematics
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Joceline C Lega

Joceline C Lega

Associate Head, Postdoctoral Programs
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Professor, Mathematics
Professor, Public Health
520-621-4350
ENR2 S417
Kevin Lin

Kevin Lin

Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science - GIDP
Associate Professor, Neuroscience - GIDP
Associate Professor, Statistics-GIDP
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor
520-626-6628
MATH 606
Laura Miller

Laura Miller

Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Mathematics
520-621-6892
ENR2 N210
Timothy Secomb

Timothy Secomb

Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Mathematics
Professor, Physiological Sciences - GIDP
Professor, Physiology
Patrick Shipman

Patrick Shipman

Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor, Mathematics
520-621-2562
ENR2 S349
Michael Tabor

Michael Tabor

Professor Emeritus
Joe Watkins

Joe Watkins

Director, Data Science Academy
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor, Applied Mathematics - GIDP
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Professor, Genetics - GIDP
Professor, Mathematics
Professor, Public Health
Professor, Statistics-GIDP