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Denise Kirschner
Denise Ellen Kirschner is an American mathematical biology, mathematical biologist and immunology, immunologist whose research topics include granulomas, HIV, tuberculosis, and the mechanisms by which disease pathogens interact with and persist in their hosts. She is a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan, co-editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Theoretical Biology'', and former president of the Society for Mathematical Biology. Education and career Kirschner graduated from Tulane University in 1985, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1991. Her dissertation, ''Mathematical Modeling of the AIDS Virus in Epidemiology and Immunology'', was jointly supervised by Jerome Goldstein and James (Mac) Hyman. After postdoctoral research at Vanderbilt University, she was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University from 1994 to 1997 before moving to the University of Michigan. She was president of the Society for Mathematical Biology from 2017 to 2019. Recog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematical Biology
Mathematical and theoretical biology, or biomathematics, is a branch of biology which employs theoretical analysis, mathematical models and abstractions of the living organisms to investigate the principles that govern the structure, development and behavior of the systems, as opposed to experimental biology which deals with the conduction of experiments to prove and validate the scientific theories. The field is sometimes called mathematical biology or biomathematics to stress the mathematical side, or theoretical biology to stress the biological side. Theoretical biology focuses more on the development of theoretical principles for biology while mathematical biology focuses on the use of mathematical tools to study biological systems, even though the two terms are sometimes interchanged. Mathematical biology aims at the mathematical representation and modeling of biological processes, using techniques and tools of applied mathematics. It can be useful in both theoretical and prac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
