S3 Ep8 Denise Kirschner

May 26
38 mins

Episode Description

...where we talk time at Los Alamos, modeling TB, and tips for international flights.

Dr. Kirschner was the first mathematics professor appointed in a medical school. She researches immune responses to infections using multiscale modeling. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Theoretical Biology for 20 years and as president of SMB.

Learn more about Denise’s work on her website:http://malthus.micro.med.umich.edu

Note: an earlier version of this recording mentioned that Denise and her colleagues published the first agent-based model within a host system. This has been updated to reflect that this was actually the first spatial agent-based model.

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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

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