Search Research Symposium Abstracts

Effects of Engineered Social Distancing and Vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 Viral Evolution

We aim to understand the viral evolution process for emerging infections such as COVID-19 and how we can update mitigation or intervention approaches to bring it under control. We created and simulated an ODE differential equation that can predict the spread and mutation of COVID-19 and help guide public health workers in improving the effectiveness of [Read More...]

Presenter: Asma Azizi,
Authors: Asma Azizi
Symposium Year: 2023
Session: Interdisciplinary Research at the Interface of Math and Life Science [Organized by Asma Azizi and Somayeh Mashayekhi]
Presentation Time: September 30, 2023; 2:00 pm

Modeling Immunity to Malaria with an Age-Structured PDE Framework

Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases globally, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. It disproportionately affects young children, with two-thirds of fatalities occurring in under-fives. Individuals acquire protection from disease through repeated exposure, and this immunity plays a crucial role in the dynamics of malaria spread. [Read More...]

Presenter: Zhuolin Qu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Authors: Zhuolin Qu, Denis Patterson, Lauren Childs, Christina Edholm, Joan Ponce, Olivia Prosper, and Lihong Zhao
Symposium Year: 2023
Session: Interdisciplinary Research at the Interface of Math and Life Science [Organized by Asma Azizi and Somayeh Mashayekhi]
Presentation Time: September 30, 2023; 2:25 pm

Geodesic Tree Space

Phylogenetic trees are the most common representation of the evolutionary history of a set of species. Analyzing and visualizing multiple phylogenetic trees is difficult because they are high-dimensional objects. Based on the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann (BHV) distance between pairs of trees, we introduce a method to generate intermediate trees on the shortest [Read More...]

Presenter: Marzieh Khodaei, Florida State University
Authors: Marzieh Khodaei and Peter Beerli
Symposium Year: 2023
Session: Interdisciplinary Research at the Interface of Math and Life Science [Organized by Asma Azizi and Somayeh Mashayekhi]
Presentation Time: September 30, 2023; 2:50 pm

Population Genetic and Fractional Calculus

A central goal of population genetics is to infer the history of populations and describe the evolutionary forces that have shaped their genetic variation. The benefit of this field includes the studies of human history, which aim to map the genes that cause human disease. To study the evolutionary history of a population, we need an explicit model that [Read More...]

Presenter: Somayeh Mashayekhi,
Authors: Somayeh Mashayekhi
Symposium Year: 2023
Session: Interdisciplinary Research at the Interface of Math and Life Science [Organized by Asma Azizi and Somayeh Mashayekhi]
Presentation Time: September 30, 2023; 3:15 pm