Handouts

• Syllabus
• Homework Assignments

Useful Links

• MATLAB commands used in class
• Possible Equilibria in Phase Portraits at Paul's Math Online Notes
• Java applets which draw direction fields and phase planes. Click on the direction field to get a graph of the solution function passing through that point. (Cool -- much thanks to John Polking!)
• Careers where math meets medicine -- Union Tribune article.

Data / Research Paper Resources

• A Course in Mathematical Biology by De Vries et al has a wealth of interesting project ideas from many areas of bioloby in Chapter 9.
• Ecological Society of America Data Registry has browsable data sets.
• Dryad has a repository of data in basic and applied biosciences.
• Pubmed has "more than 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books."

Biomath REU's (Research Experience for Undergraduates)

• Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute in Arizona
• National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis in Tennessee

Upcoming Talks

• October 8: USD student Will Tressel will talk to our class about his work at a summer REU on resistance to gonorrhea.
• October 8: Adjunct USD professor Seth Haney will discuss differential equation models he developed of cell signaling dynamics.
• October 10: Johnson and Johnson researcher David Polidori will talk to our class about blood glucose levels and renal threshold calculations.
• Nov 8 or 15: USD student Matt Catavera will be discussing the math models developed in his work studing niche versus neutral biological groups.