Biomath Faculty Advisors
The Biomathematics Graduate Program faculty is drawn from a number of departments across campus and off-campus adjunct faculty whose main interests involve modeling biological systems. People who work with biomath students can be added to the faculty roster.
The following list sorts faculty according to whether they have recently advised a biomath student.
Director
Seth Sullivant Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: Phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, algebraic statistics |
Faculty Who Have Recently Advised Biomath Students
Zixuan Cang Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: Mathematical and Computational Biology, Topological and Geometric Data Analysis | |
Jie Cao Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Ecology Research Interests: Quantitative fisheries ecology with an emphasis on population dynamics and ecosystem modeling | |
Kevin Flores Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: Development of mathematical/statistical methods for parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification, and forecasting with applications to Precision Medicine, Environmental Toxicology, and Synthetic Biology | |
Kevin Gross Professor, Department of Statistics Research Interests: Theoretical and statistical ecology, population dynamics, biogeography, and genetic pest management | |
Mansoor Haider Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: Cartilage mechanics, osteoarthritis, cell mechanics, cell-matrix interactions, tissue engineering | |
Jason Haugh Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Research Interests: Intracellular processes: signal transduction, cell adhesion and cytoskeletal dynamics; Biophysics of cell movement; Multiscale modeling of wound healing, cancer, and immune response | |
Cristina Lanzas Professor, Department of Population Health and Pathobiology Research Interests: Epidemiology and ecology of infectious diseases in animal and human populations; Understanding the role that the environment plays on transmission and the dissemination of antimicrobial resistant pathogens; Various pathogen-host systems including foodborne pathogens in farm animals and health-care associated diseases in humans | |
Alun Lloyd Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: Epidemiology of infectious diseases, spatial processes in ecology and evolution, modeling the spread of genetically engineered organisms | |
Sharon Lubkin Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: Biomechanics, biofluids, developmental biology and regenerative medicine, cell biology, morphogenesis and pattern formation, transport, cell and tissue motion, mechanobiology | |
Mette Olufsen Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: The study of cardiovascular dynamics including wave propagation in arterial networks, cardiovascular regulation and the interaction with the inflammatory system. Parameter estimation, parameter identifiability, optimization model based data-analysis | |
David Rasmussen Associate Professor, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology Research Interests: Phylodynamics: Tracking the spread of human and agricultural pathogens using a mix of phylogenetic methods and epidemiological modeling; Experimental work on how plant viruses adapt to new hosts and expand their host range | |
Ross Sozzani Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology Research Interests: Plant stem cells, Plant development, Computational Biology, Predictive Modeling | |
Hien Tran Professor, Department of Mathematics, Center for Research in Scientific Computation Research Interests: Control theory; Parameter Estimation; Kalman filtering; Mathematical modeling of biological and physiological systems |
Other Biomath Faculty
George R. Hess Professor, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources Research Interests: Conservation biology in suburbanizing landscapes, effective teaching and learning | |
Spencer Muse Professor, Department of Statistics Research Interests: | |
Brian Reich Associate Professor, Department of Statistics Research Interests: Spatial statistics; Extreme value analysis; Quantile regression; Variable selection and dimension reduction | |
Charles E. Smith Associate Professor, Department of Statistics Research Interests: Neurobiology, stochastic processes, physiological models | |
Gail G. Wilkerson Professor, Crop Science Department Research Interests: Development of computerized crop and pest management decision aids; development of physiologically based models of crop growth, pest population dynamics, and crop/pest interactions; and using information on climate variability and climate forecasts to improve crop and pest management decision-making | |
Zhao-Bang Zeng William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics and Genetics Research Interests: |
Other Adjunct Faculty
Sudin Bhattacharya Adjunct Assistant Professor; Senior Research Investigator, The Hamner Institute Research Interests: Computational modeling of cellular signaling and transcriptional regulatory networks; “Virtual tissue” model of the human liver and effects of exposure to environmental contaminants; Deterministic and stochastic models of B cell differentiation and its disruption by TCDD (Dioxin) | |
Georgiy Bobashev Adjunct Assistant Professor; Senior Data Scientist, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC Research Interests: | |
Rory Conolly Adjunct Professor; Senior Research Biologist, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC Research Interests: | |
Tim Elston Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill Research Interests: | |
Beth Gardner Research Interests: | |
Nick Haddad William Neal Reynolds Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Research Interests: Spatial population and community ecology, conservation biology in fragmented landscapes | |
John M. Hoenig Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia Research Interests: | |
Ruian Ke Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: Treatment strategies of chronic viral infections (HIV and HCV); Multi-scale modeling of evolutionary dynamics of infectious disease; drug resistance; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Stochastic processes; Systems biology | |
Julia S. Kimbell Research Interests: | |
Michael W. Lutz Research Interests: | |
W. Owen McMillan Research Interests: Integration of high-resolution molecular data (DNA sequences, microsatellites, multi-locus DNA fingerprints, and, more recently, gene expression data) with developmental and ecological information to understand the origins of functional variation. Key current research projects/programs include: 1) Genetic Basis of Convergent Evolution, 2) Developmental Architecture of Mimicry in Heliconius, and 3) Population History of Morphological Differentiation. | |
Amirhossein Mokhtari RTI International Research Interests: | |
Johnny Ottesen Roskilde University Research Interests: | |
Jim Riviere Burroughs Wellcome Professor; MacDonald Chair of Veterinary Medicine, University Distinguished Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University Research Interests: | |
R. Woodrow Setzer Adjunct Professor; National Center for Computational Toxicology, US Environmental Protection Agency Research Interests: | |
Eric Stone Research Interests: | |
Qiang Zhang Adjunct Assistant Professor; Research Investigator and Director, Center for Dose Response Modeling, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences Research Interests: Using computational models to understand and predict nonlinear dose responses resulting from perturbation of molecular toxicity pathways by cellular stressors |
Emeritus Faculty
James F. Gilliam Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Research Interests: Population ecology, especially spatial processes. Behavioral ecology, especially decisions under threat of death. Ecology of streams and rivers. | |
Marlene Hauck Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences Research Interests: Clinical trials of novel therapeutics; functional genomics in solid tumors (soft tissue sarcomas, osteosarcomas) | |
Ken Pollock William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, Department of Applied Ecology Research Interests: Wildlife and fisheries statistics and modelling, ecology and conservation biology, sampling animal populations, biometrics | |
Henry Schaffer Professor Emeritus of Genetics and Biomathematics Research Interests: | |
James F. Selgrade Professor, Department of Mathematics Research Interests: Population biology and genetics, endocrine modeling, menstrual cycle control, dynamical systems and ordinary differential equations | |
R. E. Stinner Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology Research Interests: | |
Jeff Thorne Professor Emeritus, Departments of Biology and Statistics Research Interests: I develop statistical methods for studying molecular evolution. Topics of interest include: divergence time estimation, sequence alignment, impact of protein tertiary structure on protein evolution, using disease data to understand molecular evolution, and interlocus gene conversion. |