BIOMAT 2007
Subtitle: International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, Armac ʹa o dos Bu zios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 24-29 Novermber 2007
By: edited by Rubem P Mondaini, Rui Dila o.
Contributors: Mondaini, R. (Rubem); Dila o, Rui
Publisher: World Scientific Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9789812812339
Subjects: Mathematical models; Biology; Congresses; Biomathematics
Description: The present volume contains the contributions of the keynote speakers of the BIOMAT 2007 Symposium as well as selected contributed papers in the areas of mathematical biology, biological physics, biophysics and bioinformatics. It contains new results on some aspects of LotkaVolterra equations, the proposal of using differential geometry to model neurosurgical tools, recent data on epidemiological modeling, pattern recognition and comprehensive reviews on the structure of proteins, the folding problem and the influence of Allee effects on population dynamics. This book contains some original results on the growth of gliomas: the role played by membrane channels on activity-dependent modulation of spike transmission; a proposal for reconsidering the concept of gene and the understanding of the mechanisms responsible for gene expression; a differential geometric approach to the influence of the drying effect on the dynamics of pods of Leguminosae; the comparison of agent-based models with the approach of differential equations on the study of selection mechanisms in germinal centers; and the synchronization phenomenon for protocell systems driven by linear kinetic equations.
Notes: Protein structure and function. Systems protein folding as a physical stochastic process / Kerson Huang. Optimal methods for re-ordering data matrices in systems biology and drug discovery applications / Peter A. DiMaggio Jr. ... [et al.]. The solution of the distance geometry problem in protein modeling via geometric buildup / Di Wu, Zhijun Wu, Yaxiang Yuan. The differential geometry of proteins and its applications to structure de-termination / Alain Goriely, Andrew Hausrath, Se bastien Neukirch

Modeling physiological disorders. Mathematical and computational modeling of physiological disorders: a case study of the IUPS human physiome project and aneurysmal models / Alexander R. Oshmyansky, Philip K. Maini. Modeling the growth and invasion of gliomas, from simple to complex: the Goldie Locks paradigm / Russell Rockne ... [et al.]. Advanced-delay differential equation for aeroelastic oscillations in physiol-ogy / Jorge C. Lucero. Geometry, activity-dependent mechanisms, membrane kinetics and channel density distribution interplay in single neuron plasticity. A computational study / Enrico Cataldo ... [et al.]

Modeling of biosystems. A story of growing confusion: genes and their regulation / Sonja J. Prohaska, Peter F. Stadler. Geodesic curves for biomolecular structure modelling / Rubem P. Mondaini, Roberto A. C. Prata. Agent-based models or differential equations: two ways to learn about selection mechanisms in germinal centres / Michael Meyer-Hermann. Synchronization phenomena in protocell models / Alessandro Filisetti ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Population dynamics. Models of Allee effects and their implications for population and community dynamics / Ludek Berec. The decoupling & solution of logistic & classical two-species Lotka-Volterra dynamics with variable production rates / Charles E. M. Pearce, Roy B. Leipnik. Allee effect, emigration and immigration in a class of predator-prey models / Eduardo Gonza lez-Olivares ... [et al.]; title: Epidemiological modeling. Epidemic predictions and predictability in complex environments / Vittoria Colizza ... [et al.]. Assessing the spatial propagation ofWest Nile virus / Norberto A. Maidana, Hyun M. Yang. Management of complex systems: modeling the biological pest control / Marat Rafikov, Jose  Manoel Balthazar, Hubertus F. von Bremen; title: Biological and chemical pattern recognition. On TuringHopf instabilities in reaction-diffusion systems / Mariano Rodri guez Ricard. Grasshopper density population classification with neural networks / Isaias Chairez Herna ndez ... [et al.]