Judy Bloom of Marlborough Selected for Summer Research Experience at National Institute

2013 Jul 19

Judy Bloom '14 of Marlborough, a biology major at Eastern Connecticut State University, was recently selected by the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) to participate in its highly competitive Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. The program is currently underway at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville (UTK).

The 2013 NIMBioS REU program, which began on June 10 and ends on Aug. 2, includes 19 undergraduates from universities across the United States. Participants live on campus and work in teams with NIMBioS postdoctoral researchers and UTK faculty on research at the interface of mathematics and biology. The research projects for the 2013 program are mathematical modeling of fetal electrocardiograms; modeling animal disease from coronavirus; automatic detection of rare birds from audio recording; modeling the environmental transmission of E-coli in cattle; modeling protein translation and genome evolution; and modeling animal social network dynamics.

More information about the REU program, a list of participants and further details about the projects can be found at http://www.nimbios.org/reu/.

NIMBioS is a National Science Foundation-sponsored initiative to foster interdisciplinary research at the interface between mathematical and biological sciences. Additional NIMBioS sponsors include the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

For more information, contact Catherine Crawley, NIMBioS Communications Manager, +1 865 974 9350