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Dear undergraduate math majors, math minors, and all students with
interest in math.
I am looking for a few bright students who are interested in solving
biological problems using mathematics/mathematical modeling. All
projects involve some level of data analysis, definitely a good deal of
programming and mathematical modeling. I am looking for students for 3
separate projects.
One project involves development of mathematical models to understand
mechanisms responsible for the duration of influenza virus shedding in
humans. We have data from several clinical trials in which volunteers
were infected with influenza A or B viruses, some were treated, and
amount of viral shedding has been measured over time. We would like
understand why some of these volunteers shed the virus for only short
period of time while others shed the virus for over a week. This project
will involve learning about ODE-based models and how to fit models to
data using nonlinear mixed-effect modeling framework.
Second project is on development of mathematical models predicting
kinetics of migration of T lymphocytes via lymph nodes in mice. We have
data on accumulation and loss of T cells in different lymph nodes of
mice over time after T cell transfer into mice. This project will
involve development and analysis of mathematical models of T cell
migration in mice, data analysis, and fitting alternative mathematical
models to data.
The third project involves development of mathematical models of COVID19
spread in a community. Many models have been developed to understand how
different control strategies may be impact disease spread but some
critical components of such models have been missing. This project will
involve development of agent-based models to incorporate different types
of interactions between agents to understand limitations of the
commonly-used well mixed models to make inferences about COVID19 spread.
Please let me know if you are interested in one of these projects via
email ([log in to unmask]).
Vitaly Ganusov
PS. Some info about our lab can be found here: http://ganusovlab.utk.edu/
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Vitaly V. Ganusov
Associate Professor
1311 Cumberland Avenue
307 Ken and Blaire Mossman Building
Department of Microbiology
Department of Mathematics
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1937
USA
Phone: +1 865 974-4547
FAX: +1 865 974-4007
http://ganusovlab.utk.edu
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