Talk
CassiopeaBase MATH-BIO 2026
A contributed talk on our new Cassiopea project in Key Largo, Florida, plus a conference travel award.
Updates
News, papers & talks
New papers, talks, posters and teaching. Each has its own page with slides, code and links.
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Jun 2026
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Mar 2026
Teaching
COOGRE Class 2026
A hands-on workshop on mathematical modeling for UC Merced's Cooperative-based Graduate Research Experience.
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Mar 2026
Invited talk
AMS Western Sectional 2026
An invited talk in Boise, Idaho, on how thermal stress disrupts the flows bobtail squid use to recruit their symbionts.
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Nov 2025
Paper
Thermal Stress Disrupts Symbiotic Fluid Dynamics in Bobtail Squid
A fluid-dynamics model of the squid's mantle cavity shows that heat stress can cut young squid's ability to capture the bacteria they depend on.
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Sep 2025
Paper
Low-abundance taxa drive host microbiome response to temperature stress
In heat-stressed sea anemones, a small set of rare bacteria shifts before the host does, making them early-warning indicators.
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Aug 2025
Paper
Identifiability, Sensitivity, and Genetic Algorithms in Bacterial Biofilm Selection Models
Which experiments can actually measure a biofilm selection model's parameters? Optimized sampling beats more data.
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Jun 2025
Reading group
Summer Book Club 2025
This summer we're reading LeVeque's Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations.
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Jan 2025
Poster
MDDLS 2025: Exploring Thermally Stressed Symbiosis Formation
A poster at UC Irvine on how heat stress may disrupt the flows young bobtail squid use to recruit their symbionts.