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Research Highlights

Explore highlights from NITMB supported research projects

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Cody FitzGerald, Alasdair Hastewell, Christina Catlett, Yifan Zhang, Niall Mangan

Discovering uncertain model structures

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Modeling and Analysis of Synchronous Behavior in Biological Systems

Guy Amichay, Danny Abrams

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Defining excitability via transition path theory

Chris Chi, Nico Romeo, Hermann Riecke, Aaron Dinner, Elizabeth Jerison

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Schur Nets: Higher Order GNN

Qingqi Zhang, Ruize Xu, Risi Kondor

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Mathematics of cell membrane-mediated information transmission

Petia Vlahovska and Suri Vaikuntanathan

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Deep Learning-Empowered Virtual Channel Separation

Structured Illumination Microscopy

Doazheng Gong, Ashesh Ashesh, Florian Jug, Norbert F. Scherer

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Finding robust memories

through representational drift

Maanasa Natrajan, James E. Fitzgerald

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Functional regimes of soil-microbiomes

Kiseok Lee, Siqi Liu, Kyle Crocker, David Higgins, Mikhail Tikhonov, Madhav Mani, Seppe Kuehn

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Information theory for data-driven model reduction in biology

Matthew Schmitt, Vincenzo Vitelli, Michael Rust, Margaret Gardel

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Inferring microbiome community structure

from biological function

Matthew Schmitt, Kiseok Lee, Vincenzo Vitelli, Seppe Kuehn

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Noise Filtering in Biological Networks

Tingyu Zhao, Istvan Kovacs

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Inferring Brain Wiring Rules

Ryan Lee, Tingyu Zhao, Bingjie Hao, Istvan Kovacs

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Stabilizing Model Selection

Melissa Adrian, Jake Soloff, Rebecca Willett

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Mathematics of Rare Events in Evolution

Kabir Husain, Madeline Melzer, Arvind Murugan, Yogesh Goyal

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Persistent Homology of Function Spaces

Jonathan Block, Fedon Manin, and Shmuel Weinberger

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A mathematical framework for classification in cell state dynamics

Carlos Floyd, Ben Kuznets-Speck, Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan, Yogesh Goyal

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