News

• NITMB Fellows | now accepting
• Internal Project Proposals | now accepting
• Awarded External Research Projects
• Petia Vlahovska Member Bio
• Keara Lane Spotlight
• Christoph Miehl Spotlight

Upcoming Events

• Random Dynamical Systems, with applications in biology | Nov. 4 - 8, 2024
• Biological systems that learn | Jan. 6 - 10, 2025
• Science + Tea at NITMB - Fridays at 3pm

Opportunities

• Workshop Proposals | now accepting
• Visiting Scholars Program | now accepting
• Long Program Proposals | now accepting

Applications due October 15, 2024



Ready to transform biological research and inspire new mathematical discoveries?

We seek early-career researchers who want to develop mathematical, theoretical, and computational approaches to study any area of biology. Under the mentorship of NSF-Simons NITMB leadership and faculty members, Fellows will develop their independent research program and foster collaborations with NITMB faculty members or others outside the Institute

Learn how to become an NITMB fellow

Applications Due October 24, 2024

The NITMB requests proposals for internal research projects aimed at fulfilling our scientific mission. Internal Research Projects funded by the NITMB will catalyze new interactions among mathematical and biological disciplines.

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The NITMB is proud to announce the Institute has awarded funding to support five new external research projects. These projects are developing mathematical frameworks that illuminate emergent capabilities of biological systems.

Explore the new projects

NITMB member Petia Vlahovska, Professor of engineering sciences and applied math at Northwestern University, serves as a collaborator on the NITMB supported research project, 'Developing predictive frameworks for the control of non-equilibrium cellular membrane dynamics.'

Explore Petia Vlahovska's research interests and how cellular membrane morphology changes in response to changes in the transmembrane potential in this month's NITMB member biography.

Read more about Petia Vlahovska's Work

If you'd like to be featured in a future newsletter, please contact NITMB's Digital Media Specialist, Ben Stemen (stemenb@uchicago.edu)

Meet Keara Lane, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at Northwestern University.

Learn About Keara Lane

Want to nominate a researcher for an NITMB spotlight? Contact NITMB's Digital Media Specialist, Ben Stemen (stemenb@uchicago.edu)

Meet Christoph Miehl, HFSP postdoctoral fellow in the Brent Doiron group at the University of Chicago.

Learn About Christoph Miehl

Want to nominate a researcher for an NITMB spotlight? Contact NITMB's Digital Media Specialist, Ben Stemen (stemenb@uchicago.edu)

November 4 - 8, 2024

Develop new robust approaches to analyze random dynamical systems and gain a more comprehensive understanding of the biological phenomena they model.

This workshop will convene mathematical scientists, working on random dynamical systems, and biological scientists who incorporate these frameworks in their research. The goal is to foster an exchange of ideas between these different research communities. The workshop is structured to help participants identify the most promising opportunities for developing mathematics, at this interface between dynamical systems and probability theory, in a way that is informed by the biological questions.

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January 6 - 10, 2025

Explore how biological systems encode local rules for experience-dependent modification in physical hardware to implement robust solutions to complex inverse problems.

The goal of this workshop is to discover new core principles and mathematical tools/approaches shared across physical learning systems, biological learning systems and neural networks that will inform deeper understanding and future discovery in all 3 fields. To this end, we will bring together researchers interested in viewing biological problems through the lens of inverse problems, researchers working on physical learning, and researchers studying neural networks for a week of intensive discussion and cross-fertilization.

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Join us every Friday at 3pm for a weekly social event at the NITMB office. Cookies, Cuppa, and Chalk. Come science-alize (science + socialize)!

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We invite the proposals for scientific workshops to be held at the NSF-Simons National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology. A Scientific Workshop is a week-long, focused program in a specific area of current research at the intersection of biological and mathematical sciences. NITMB workshops typically have only a few formal talks, with the bulk of the time allocated for discussions, brainstorming, informal chalk talks, and initiating research projects within smaller groups. Scientific workshops receive full administrative and financial support from the Institute.

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Participants in the Visiting Scholars program will be appointed for an extended period to visit and work in the NITMB headquarters and participate in the vibrant intellectual life of the NITMB, including workshops, seminars, tutorials, and research-in-progress meetings. NITMB Visiting Scholars will be granted a shared office and, upon request, may also be affiliated with one or more of the NITMB's research groups.



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Long Programs offer the opportunity for faculty, postdocs, and students to be in residence at the NITMB. Those in residence conduct research, collaborate with NITMB faculty and NITMB fellows, provide training opportunities for students, and engage with additional visitors. Long Programs address one or more of our five research themes over the course of 4-10 weeks. Long programs receive administrative and financial support from the Institute, allowing organizers to focus on the scientific aspects of the activities.

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