The NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology is proud to announce the Institute has awarded funding to support five new external research projects. These projects are developing mathematical frameworks that illuminate emergent capabilities of biological systems. Additional details, including project descriptions, are available on the Supported Research page.
Optimization, prediction, and control in the design of the pancreatic endocrine network in mammals
Ilya Nemenman, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory UniversityPriyathama Vellanki, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at Emory University
Impact of higher order structure on the dynamics of neural networks
Kevin Bassler, Moores Professor of Physics and Mathematics at the University of HoustonKrešimir Josić, Moores Professor of Mathematics, Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston
Xaq Pitkow, Associate Professor, Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Exploring Global Epistasis through the Lens of Physical Learning
Andrea Liu, Hepburn Professor of Physics at the University of PennsylvaniaJoshua Plotkin, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of the Natural Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thermodynamic complexity of biological Markov processes
Jeremy Gunawardena, associate professor, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School
Equation learning modeling of mitochondrial inheritance during sex cell production
Orlando Arguello-Miranda, Assistant Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State UniversityKevin Flores, Associate Professor and Director of the Biomathematics Graduate Program at North Carolina State University.
