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 University, and Priyathama Vellanki, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine at Emory University.
Impact of higher order structure on the dynamics of neural networks
Krešimir Josić, Moores Professor of Mathematics, Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston, and Kevin Bassler, Moores Professor of Physics and Mathematics 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 Pennsylvania, and
Joshua 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 of Systems Biology at 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 University, and Kevin Flores, Associate Professor and Director of the Biomathematics Graduate Program at North Carolina State University.
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