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Model your Genes the Mathematical Way
Danville, VA
June 27 – June 29, 2006
Mathematical biology appeals to theoretical and computational tools from mathematics to describe or analyze biological systems. It is a field in which one poses a biological problem in a mathematical framework and uses mathematics to address certain issues, such as effective drug targeting and implicating cancer-inducing genes. Of particular interest to experimental biologist is the ability to construct a mathematical model for a regulatory network of genes and proteins, in which the expression of key units regulates the expression of other components in the network. These modeling tools may have roots in a variety of areas in mathematics, including algebra, control and optimization theory, graph theory, logic, and statistics.
The primary objective of ours, is to demonstrate to high school educators innovative ways of teaching mathematics using advanced mathematics and mathematical modeling software, with an emphasis on integration of the topics into the Standards of Learning (SOL) mathematics curriculum.
Nowadays much of the developed science is being constructed in multidisciplinary teams. In this spirit, we geared our workshop to a collaborative process in which mathematics and biology teachers work together to introduce the necessary mathematical and biological material to students to develop within the context of the SOL’s, an interesting mathematical biology project.
Mathematical modeling is the primary focus in the workshop. The directors will introduce key concepts in Biochemistry/Biology and Mathematics that participants will apply to explore a scientific problem of regulation of transcription in prokaryotes – the "lac operon".
Directors' Contact Information
Ana Martins
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Tech
Washington Street (0477)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-2417
amartins@vbi.vt.edu
Paola Vera-Licona
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Tech
Washington Street (0477)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-7066
mveralic@vbi.vt.edu
Last modification date: Tuesday 13 of February, 2007 [07:39:58 EST] by Paola
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