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Biomathematics
As the study of biological systems becomes more quantitative, the part that mathematical analysis plays increases. This extends from the macroscopic, such as modelling the spread of a disease through a community, to the microscopic, such as determining the three dimensional structure of proteins from knowledge of their sequence of amino acids.
Research Interests
- Nonlinear dynamics of communication between cardiac pacemaker cells, as well as their response to external stimulation
- Unified mathematical model of the electrophysiology of charophytes (brackish water plants)
- Dynamics of the movement of glucose transporters in adipocyte (fat) cells and the role of insulin in their expression
- Multifractal scaling of neuron morphologies to identify age related characteristics
- Fractional reaction-diffusion equations as models for pattern formation in systems in which the diffusion is anomalous
- Modelling transport processes in inhomogeneous biological media ranging from molecular, cellular and network to whole organisms
- Analysis of neuronal signaling dynamics in inhomogeneous neural cables
- Methods of nonlinear dynamics to find evidence for low dimensional deterministic chaos in arterial blood pressure data, the first stage in attempting to identify a diagnostic for predisposition to chronic hypertension
- Immune system dynamics
- HIV, hepatitis B and C
- Epidemiology
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Dynamics of drug resistance
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- Professor Branko Celler, Biomedical Systems Laboratory, School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, UNSW
- Associate Professor Nigel Lovell, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW
- Dr Socrates Dokos, Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW
- Dr Mary Beilby, Department of Biophysics, School of Physics, UNSW
- Professor David James, Diabetes and Obesity Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research
- Dr Susan Wearne, Biomathematics Department, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
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