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Steve Hagen (UF Physics)

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Genetic competence switching in Streptococcus mutans:  Bacterial circuitry for exploiting internal and external heterogeneity Bacteria probe their environment and exchange information through a chemical signaling mechanism known as quorum sensing. 

Yena Kim (UF Mathematics)

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Effect of Phosphorous on West Nile Virus Replication: Combining Experiments with Modeling

Evan Milliken (UF Mathematics)

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Predicting disease outbreak in models of aquaculture Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) virus (ISAv) is an Orthomyxovirus which causes ISA in a variety of finfish including Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.).

Rebecca Borchering (UF Mathematics)

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Approximating the probability of invasion in discrete stochastic population models When an individual with a novel trait is introduced in a new environment, we would like to understand what drives

Calistus Ngonghala (UF Mathematics)

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General ecological models for human subsistence, health and poverty. Part 1. The world’s rural poor rely heavily on their immediate natural environment for subsistence and suffer high rates of morbidity

Calistus Ngonghala (UF Mathematics)

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General ecological models for human subsistence, health and poverty. Part 2. The world’s rural poor rely heavily on their immediate natural environment for subsistence and suffer high rates of morbidity

Sergei Pilyugin (UF Mathematics)

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Mathematical models of poverty and infectious diseases Dr. Pilyugin will be presenting Dr. Ngonghala’s paper that is in review. Other topics may be discussed.

Ryan Nikin-Beers (UF Mathematics)

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Unraveling within-host signatures of dengue infection at the population level Dengue virus causes worldwide concern with nearly 100 million infected cases reported annually. The within-host dynamics differ between primary and