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Biomathematical Sciences Concentration

Faculty Participants

Michael Barresi
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
413-585-3697 mbarresi at smith dot edu

Embryonic Neural System Development (Collaborating with Nessy Tania)

Jesse Bellemare
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
413-585-3812 jbellema at smith dot edu

Eco-hydrology and Forest Community Change (Collaborating with Andrew Guswa)

David Bickar
Professor of Biochemistry
413-585-3837 dbickar at science dot smith dot edu

Geometry of Proteins: Structure, Flexibility and Motion (Robert Dorit, Cristina Suarez, and Ileana Streinu)

Maren Buck
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
413-585-7599 | mbuck@smith dot edu

A predictive model for the rate of disassembly of micelles in drug delivery (with Ileana Streinu)

Nathan Derr
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
413-585-3966 | nderr at smith dot edu

Biophysical and cell biological mechanisms of the cytoskeletal molecular motors dynein and kinesin (with Ileana Streinu)

Rob Dorit
Professor, Biological sciences
413-585-3638 rdorit at smith dot edu

Modeling the dynamics of infectious disease epidemics (with Dylan Shepardson)

Christophe Gole
Professor, Mathematics & Statistics

413-585-3875 cgole at smith.edu

Geometry of an Ecological Arms Race (with L. David Smith)

Spirals in Nature: Phyllotaxis (with Denise Lello)


harringtonMary Harrington
Professor in Life Sciences
413-585-3925 mharring at email dot smith dot edu

Oscillations of Biological Clock Gene Expression (Collaborating with Tanya Leise)

DeniseDenise Lello
Research Associate Smith College Biological Sciences
413-585-3594 dlello at smith dot edu

Spirals in Nature: Phyllotaxis (Collaborating with Christophe Golé, Mathematics)

Lisa Mangiamele
Assistant Professor of Biological Science and Neuroscience
413-585-3879 | lmangiamele at smith dot edu

Integration of sensory systems communication signals to guide adaptive behaviors, such as mating behaviors, and how those sensory processes are modified by hormones.

Sarah Moore
Assistant Professor of Engineering
413-585-7005 | sjmoore at smith dot edu

Engineering Proteins for Applications in Medicine (with Ileana Streinu)

Sara Sheehan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
413-585-3804 | ssheehan at smith dot edu

Machine learning techniques to separate effects of population size changes and natural selection

L. David Smith
Professor, Biological Sciences
413-585-3828 ldsmith at smith.edu

Geometry of an Ecological Arms Race (Collaborating with Christophe Gole)

Gwen Spencer
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
413-585-3830 | gspencer at smith dot edu

Ileana Streinu
Charles N. Clark Professor, Computer Science
413-585-3827 istreinu at smith.edu

Geometry of Proteins: Structure, Flexibility and Motion (with Robert Dorit, David Bickar, and Cristina Suarez)

A predictive model for the rate of disassembly of micelles in drug delivery (with Maren Buck)

Biophysical and cell biological mechanisms of the cytoskeletal molecular motors dynein and kinesin (with Nathan Derr)

Engineering Proteins for Applications in Medicine (with Sarah Moore)

Cristina Suarez
Associate Professor, Chemistry
413-585-3838 csuarez at smith dot edu

Geometry of Proteins: Structure, Flexibility and Motion (with Robert Dorit, David Bickar, and Ileana Streinu)

Nessy Tania
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
413-585-3590 ntania at smith dot edu

Embryonic Neural System Development (Collaborating with Michael Barresi)

Modeling hair-cell mechanisms for sensory encoding in Zebrafish (with Josef Trapani)

Susan Voss
Assistant Professor of Engineering
413-585-7008 svoss at smith dot edu

Structure and Function of the Peripheral Auditory System (Collaborating with Nicholas Horton)