Your success is our success! We’re proud to “graduate” working groups, research projects, and individuals. We measure our success based on helping you and your research find funding.
Some of our past projects include the following.
Finished Main Research Projects:
- Project 1: Disease Severity During Viral Co-Infection
Project Director: Tanya Miura - Project 2: Multi-Level Dynamics of Viral Co-Infection
Project Director: Christine Parent - Project 3: Agent-Based Modeling of Co-Infection
Project Director: Bert Baumgaertner
Past Pilot Projects:
- Using Wastewater to Predict COVID-19 Outbreaks in Rural Communities (Coats, 2021 – 2022)
- Investigating Peptide Bioactivity in Human Milk via Complimentary Modeling and Experiments (Chen, 2021 – 2022)
- Insights into Human Anamalous Visual Functions Using Molecular Modeling (Patel, 2019 – 2020)
- Mountain West Mine Tailings, Watersheds and Adverse Human Health Outcomes (Kolok, 2018 – 2019)
- A Causal Network Approach to Understanding Transcription and Methylation in Breast Cancer (Fu, 2018 – 2020)
- Determining the Role of Albumin Conformation in Enhanced Bone Repair and Regeneration
(Bernards, 2018-2019) - Modeling and Evaluation of Physical Therapy Movements Using Machine Learning (Vakanski, 2017-2018)
- Multi-Scale Model of Interactions Between Lung and Pulmonary Ventilation (Xing, 2016-2017)
- Modeling Variability in Persistence Induced From Within by a Toxic Metabolite (Marx, 2015)
Past MAGs:
- Optimizing spatiotemporal modeling for public health risk analysis (Brown, 2021 )
- Myofilament Cooperative Activation in Human and Porcine Myocardium (Fitzsimons, 2021 )
- The modeling of the HIV Capsid with novel binding sites on Nucleoporin 153 (Rowley, 2021)
- DNA and protein modeling for P/asmodium falciparum dhfr and dhps sequences derived from an existing study in Kenya (Luckhart, 2019)
- Exploring Glycosylation Dependence on the Bacterial Affinity of the Mucin7 Repeat Peptide Sequence with Modeled and Synthesized Carbon-Linked Amino Acid Conjugates (Waynant, 2019)
- The Rapid Evolution of Primate Haptoglobin and the Molecular Modeling of its Interaction with the Trypanosome Hemoglobin-Haptoglobin Receptor (Rowley, 2019)
- Development of an Agent-Based Model for Understanding Mechanisms of Pneumonia Transmission in Bighorn Sheep (Long, 2018)
- Bioinformatic Analysis of Immune-Cell-Derived, Regeneration-Specific Transcripts in Zebrafish (Mitchell, 2018)
- Modeling Stem Cell Behavior for Advancing Novel Tendon Therapies (Harrington, Schiele, 2018)
- Using Homology Modeling and MD Simulations to Explore Structural Properties of Putative Yeast Toxins (Rowley, 2018)
- Understanding Persistence and Dispersal of Canine Rabies Using Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Modeling (Miller, 2018)
- The Effect of Genetic Variation on the Interaction Between Primate Lentiviruses and Host Proteins (Rowley, 2017)
- Drug-Target Interactions of 5HT2B Receptors and Its Inhibitors (Magolan, 2017)
- Evolution of Tandemly-Replicated Opsin Genes: Molecular Models That Predict Spectral Shift (Stenkamp, 2016-2017)
- Mathematical Modeling of Nutritional Factors and Bacterial Communities of the Maternal-Infant Dyad (McGuire, 2016-2017)
- Small Area Estimation of Obesity-Related Indicators (Brown, 2016-2017)
- Mathematical Modeling of Human Motions Using Recurrent Neural Networks (Vakanski, 2016)
- Determining the Regulation of Chlamydial Development Through Experimental Modeling (Grieshaber, 2015-2016)
- Developing Statistical Models and Computer Simulations to Tackle Science’s Reproducibility Crisis (Devezer, 2015)
Completed Externally Funded Projects:
- McMaster Project (Patel, 2017 – 2018)
- Comparison of Two Phasitron Designs for IPV (Xing, 2017)
- Causal Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks With Application to Breast Cancer (Fu, 2015 – 2018)
- Tackling Critical Issues in the Ebola Epidemic Through Modeling Viral Evolution (Ytreberg, 2015)