BIOMAT 2010: International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 24 - 29 July 2010 ; [2010 annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology ... held ... in a joint conference with the BIOMAT 2010 international

This volume contains the selected contributed papers of the BIOMAT 2010 International Symposium which has been organized as a joint conference with the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (http://www.smb.org) by invitation of the Director Board of this Society. The works presented at Tutorial and Plenary Sessions by expert keynote speakers have been also included. This book contains state-of-the-art articles on special research topics on mathematical biology, biological physics and mathematical modelling of biosystems; comprehensive reviews on interdisciplinary areas written by prominent leaders of scientific research groups. The treatment is both pedagogical and sufficiently advanced to enhance future scientific research Preface. Editorial board of the BIOMAT Consortium -- Morphology. Using DNA knots to assay viral genome packing / De Witt Sumners. Crumpled globule method of DNA packing in chromosomes : From predictions to open questions / Alexander Yu. Grosberg. Internal symmetries and classification of tubular viral capsids / Richard Kerner. Disclination production and the assembly of spherical shells / Jonathan P. Reuter, Robijn F. Bruinsma, William S. Klug -- Molecular biophysics. A proposal for modelling the structure of biomacromolecules / Rubem P. Mondaini, Sandro P. Vilela -- Mathematical epidemiology. On the use of mechanistic and data-driven models in population dynamics : The case of tuberculosis in the US over that past two centuries / Juan Pablo Aparicio, Carlos Castillo-Chavez. A two-patches population affected by a SIS type disease infection in the source / F. Cordova-Lepe, R. Del Valle, J. Huincahue-Arcos. Age-structured modelling for the directly transmitted infections I : Characterizing the basic reproduction number / C.H. Dezotti, H.M. Yang. Control of West Nile Virus by insecticide in the presence of an avian reservoir / E. Baumrin [und weitere] -- Population dynamics. A modified Leslie-Gower predator-prey model with hyperbolic functional response and Alle effect on prey / Claudio Arancibia-Ibarra, Eduardo Gonzalez-Olivares. Control and synchronization of chemotaxis patterning and signaling / H. Puebla, S.A. Martinez-Delgadillo, E. Hernandez-Martinez. The optimal thinning strategy for a forestry management problem / A. Rojas-Palma, E. Gonzalez-Olivares. Mating strategies and the Alle effect : A comparison of mathematical models / D.I. Wallace, R. Agarwal, M. Kobayashi. Cultural evolution in a lattice : The Majority-vote model as a frequency-dependent bias model of cultural transmission / J.F. Fotanari, L. r. Peres -- Population biology. Estimating the photosynthetic inhibition by ultraviolet radiation on the antartic phytoplankton algae / C.M.O. Martinez, F.R. Momo, G.E.S. Echeverry. The spatiotemporal dynamics of African Cassava Mosaic Disease / Z. Lawrence, D.I. Wallace. The bioaccumulation of methylmercury in an aquatic ecosystem / N. Johns [und weitere] -- Theoretical immunology. The humoral immune response : Complexity and theoretical challenges / Gitif Shahaf [und weitere] -- Computational biology. DNA libray screening and transversal designs / Jun Guo [und weitere]. Mapping genotype data with multidimensional scaling algorithms / S.E. LLerena, C.D. Maciel. Universal features for Exon prediction / Diego Frias, Nicolas Carels -- Mathematical aspects of bioprocesses. Modeling and analysis of biofilms / M.M. Gonzalez-Brambila, H. Puebla, F. Lopez-Isunza. Qualitative analysis of chemical bioreactors behavior / A.M. Diaz, L.D. Jimenez, S.C. Hernandez -- Population genetics. A pedigree analysis including persons with several degrees of separation and qualitative data / Charles E.M. Pearce, Maciej Henneberg -- Systems biology. Effects of motility and contact inhibition on tumour viability : A discrete simulation using the cellular Potts model / Jonathan Li, John Lowengrub Contains the selected contributed papers of the BIOMAT 2010 International Symposium which has been organized as a joint conference with the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology by invitation of the Director Board of this Society. This book also includes the works presented at Tutorial and Plenary Sessions by expert speakers.