Fall 1998
Mathematical Biology Seminar
Seminars at UH meet from 2:00 to 3:00 in room 648,
Phillip Guthrie Hoffman Building.
Seminars at Rice meet from 2:30 to 3:30 in Duncan Hall 1044.
Exceptions are noted in schedule below.
Parking at UH is available in the paid parking garage underneath
University Hilton Hotel and Hotel School, Entrance 1 off Calhoun.
Parking tokens will be provided by the Math Department.
Parking at Rice is available in visitor spots in Lot C (Abercrombie lot), Entrance 16 from Rice Blvd.
- 27 January at Rice
William Fitzgibbon, Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston
Singularly Perturbed Hodgkin Huxley Models
- 17 February at UH
Jeff Morgan
ABSTRACT:
- 24 March at Rice
Olivier Lichtarge
Evolutionary studies of protein
sequence-structure and function
- 7 April at UH
Patrick King, Department of Statistics, Rice University
Microsatellite-based statistics for inferring
patterns of population growth
ABSTRACT: Demographic change
in populations may involve periods
of growth, decline, or constant size. These changes leave
signatures on the genetic composition of the population.
Here we consider the performance of five statistics for
inferring these population size changes using samples
of microsatellite alleles from loci evolving under a
stepwise mutation model. Three statistics are
based on the imbalance index beta, defined as the ratio of
two estimators of the product of effective population size
and mutation rate (Kimmel et al. 1998);
the fourth statistic is based on the ratio of observed
to expected allele size variance (DiRienzo et al. 1998, Reich
et al. 1999); and the fifth is based on the observed
kurtosis of the allele size distribution (Reich and
Goldstein 1998).
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