Myriad influences shape the patterns of evolution, timing, behavior and ecology of living organisms. These influences range from biochemical cues to configurations of temperature, space and light, to interactions with other organisms. This one-year program focuses on connecting influence to pattern for processes involving plants and insects.

How do biotic and abiotic influences affect patterns ...

The MBI Bootcamp on Cancer Modeling is aimed at young researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences, although young researchers in the mathematical sciences will both benefit from and be accepted into the bootcamp. The bootcamp will focus on three themes surrounding cancer modeling: signaling pathways, tumor growth, and radiotherapy.

Three speakers will address each theme: the first wil...

Plant development can be considered far beyond the original context of timing and elementary topology of organ development. We may explore its process origins in biochemistry; its mutual coupling to the environment as in energy balance and organ microclimate; the geometry of resources (rectilinear radiation, patchy and diffusive nutrients) that in turn conditions the necessary geometry of plant or...

Circadian (~24-hour) rhythms control the timing of many biological processes including leaf movements in plants and sporulation in fungi. Advances in understanding the biological mechanism of plant and fungal clocks have also helped inspire clock research in higher organisms. This workshop brings together theorists and experimentalists to better understanding timekeeping in plants and fungi and ho...

This is the sixth in a series of biannual conferences honoring David Blackwell and Richard Tapia, two seminal figures who inspired a generation of African-American, Native American and Latino/Latina students to pursue careers in mathematics.

Carrying forward their work, this one and a half day conference will:

* Recognize and showcase mathematical excellence by minority researchers
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The spread of invasive species is a key applied problem in ecology. In North America, invasive exotic species are widespread, ranging from gypsy moth to Asian longhorn beetle to weedy plants. The associated costs are immense, by some estimates exceeding $100 billion US per year. While many invasive species are introduced from Asia or Europe, others, like mountain pine beetle, are simply spreading ...

Insect groups generate a wide range of interesting collective patterns and behaviours, for example the formation of ant trails, the building of elaborate nests, collective movement of honey bee swarms and marching locust bands, to name just a few. The complex non-linear nature of the mechanisms underlying such collective behaviour has generated a great deal of theoretical interest from mathematici...

The biosciences provide rich grounds for mathematical problems, and
many questions require the development of new mathematical theory and
algorithms. With this workshop we give particular attention to
new ideas and developments in dynamical systems. We have chosen four
themes to showcase how the biosciences inspired recent progress:
systems with delays, systems with multiple scales, dynamics ...

Plant-insect interactions have played a pivotal role in the development of modern coevolutionary theory, beginning with Darwin's initial insights into reciprocal adaptation between plants and pollinators. When Ehrlich and Raven published their now classic study of coevolution between butterflies and plants in 1964, the link between the development of coevolutionary theory and plant-insect interact...

The goal of the workshop is to bring together biologists studying ocean and polar ecologies; oceanographers, biogeochemists, and climate scientists studying the changing physical habitats; and mathematicians with ecological and physical expertise. The two-way feedback interactions between ocean ecological systems and their physical environments have the potential to dramatically impact both marine...