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Image Processing and Biomedical Informatics - Biomathematical modeling - Analysis of biomath models
Biomedical image processing and Biomedical Informatics
Akram Aldroubi, Professor

Research areas: Image and Signal Processing of Biomedical data, such as DT-MR images, harmonic analysis, functional analysis, wavelet theory.
Recent project: Fiber tracking from DT-MRI data.

akram.aldroubi@vanderbilt.edu- webpage

Doug Hardin, Professor

Research areas: Fractal Geometry, Wavelet Theory, Image Processing.

hardin@math.vanderbilt.edu- webpage

Alex Powell, Assistant Professor

Research areas: Harmonic Analysis with applications to medical image processing.

alexander.m.powell@vanderbilt.edu-

Mathematical Modeling in Biology

Maria (Audi) Byrne, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research areas: Mathematical modeling in physiology and morphogenesis
Recent projects: FRET Modeling For Lipid Rafts, Phototransduction Modeling, Zebrafish Modeling.

abyrne@math.vanderbilt.edu- webpage

Hannah Callender, Graduate Student

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hannah.l.callender@vanderbilt.edu

Mark Byrne, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research areas: Mathematical Modeling in Pharmacology.
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mark.byrne@vanderbilt.edu

Philip Crooke, Professor

Research areas: Mathematical Modeling in Medicine.
Recent projects: Mathematical models for noninvasive ventilation, Agent based modeling of pathogen dissemination in intensive care units, etc.

philip.s.crooke@vanderbilt.edu- webpage

Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Professor

Research areas: Signal Transduction, Biophysics of motion of Second Messengers, Cell Cycle, Complexity in Endothelial Cell Signaling, Mathematical Homogenization and Concentrated Capacity in Visual Transduction, Partial Differential Equations of Elliptic and Parabolic Type, Degenerate and Singular Equations, Local and Global Behavior of Solutions, Harnack-Type Estimates; Calculus of Variations; Quasi-Minima ; Potential Theory, Phase Transition; Free Boundary Problems; Fluid Dynamics; Conduction-Convection; Navier Stokes Equations; Motion in Porous Media; Ill-Posed Problems, Thin Film Dynamics, Classical Mechanics.

em.diben@vanderbilt.edu- webpage

Minchul Kang, Post-Doctoral Fellow

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minchul.kang@vanderbilt.edu

Peter Hinow, Graduate Student

Research areas: Mathematical modeling in cell biology
Recent projects: Quantification of of p53_DNA binding kinetics in living cells using FRAP.

peter.hinow@vanderbilt.edu - Webpage

Mary Ann Horn, Associate Professor

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Daphne Manoussaki, Assistant Professor

Research areas: Mathematical modeling in biology.
Recent projects: Cochlear mechanics, angiogenesis / vasculogenesis, mathematical modeling in tumor biology, arterial mechanics.

daphne.manoussaki@vanderbilt.edu- webpage

Brett McKinney, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research areas: Molecular Physiology and Biophysics.
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brett.mckinney@vanderbilt.edu

Lixin Shen, Post-Doctoral Fellow

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lixin.shen@vanderbilt.edu

Glenn Webb, Professor

Research areas: Mathematical modeling in biology, Population dynamics, models of tumor growth.
Recent projects: Mathematical modeling of prion proliferation, structured multiscale models of tumor invasion, antibiotic resistance in hospitals, models of pandemic influenza, in-host HIV models, bacteria population models.

glenn.f.webb@vanderbilt.edu- webpage

Analysis of mathematical models in biology
Gieri Simonett, Professor

Research areas: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Geometric Evolution Equations, Free Boundary Problems, Phase Transition, Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Theory of Function Spaces.
Recent projects: Mathematical analysis of a model for prion proliferation.

simonett@math.vanderbilt.edu- webpage

Christoph Walker, Post-Doctoral Fellow

Research areas: Differential Equations, Coagulation and Fragmentation Processes
Recent projects: Prion Proliferation with Unbounded Polymerization Rate, On the Solvability of a Mathematical Model for Prion Proliferation.

cwalker@math.vanderbilt.edu- webpage











 
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