Acknowledgments
Virtual Host University
SMB is excited to have the University of California, Riverside as the virtual host of the 2021 Annual Meeting. The planning and organizing for this meeting has also been made possible with the help of members of the organizing committee from many colleges and universities in California.
Meeting Partner Societies
Tech Support
Thanks to Kevin Cook, MathDept.org and ICMS (Europe/Africa Time Block) for supporting SMB2021 online and our efforts to have international participation.
Scientific Committee
Mark Alber | University of California, Riverside, USA
Ruth Baker | University of Oxford, UK
Reinhard Laubenbacher | University of Florida, USA
Suzanne Lenhart | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Philip Maini | University of Oxford, UK
Anna Marciniak-Czochra | Heidelberg University, Germany
Gibin Powathil | Swansea University, UK
Santiago Schnell | University of Michigan, USA
Amber Smith | The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Organizing Committee
Maíra Aguiar | Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao - Basque Country, Spain
Mark Alber (Chair) | University of California, Riverside, USA
Paul Atzberger | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Daniele Avitabile | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ellen Baake | Bielefeld University, Germany
Mario Banuelos | California State University, Fresno, USA
Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn | University of California, Merced, USA
Jolene Britton (Assistant Chair) | University of California, Riverside, USA
Sunny Canic | University of California, Berkeley, USA
William Cannon | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Weitao Chen (Associate Chair) | University of California, Riverside, USA
Heyrim Cho | University of California, Riverside, USA
Yat Tin Chow | University of California, Riverside, USA
Lisette de Pillis | Harvey Mudd College, USA
Amina Eladdadi | The College of Saint Rose, Albany, USA
German Enciso | University of California, Irvine, USA
Marcella Gomez | University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Melissa Gomez | University of California, Riverside, USA
Jia Gou | University of California, Riverside, USA
Robert Guy | University of California, Davis, USA
Alexander Hoffmann | University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Chiu-Yen Kao | Claremont McKenna College, USA
Jae Kyoung Kim | KAIST, South Korea
Peter Kim | University of Sydney, Australia
Denise Kirschner | University of Michigan Medical School, USA
Natalia Komarova | University of California, Irvine, USA
Gen Kurosawa | RIKEN, Japan
Doron Levy | University of Maryland, USA
James Marberry | University of California, Riverside, USA
Alison Marsden | Stanford University, USA
Roeland Merks | Leiden University, The Netherlands
Andrew D. McCulloch | University of California, San Diego, USA
Christian Michael | University of California, Riverside, USA
Qing Nie | University of California, Irvine, USA
Francesco Pancaldi (Assistant Chair) | University of California, Riverside, USA
Mykhailo Potomkin | University of California, Riverside, USA
Gibin Powathil | Swansea University, UK
Robert Planqué | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Russell Rockne | Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, USA
Suzanne Sindi | University of California, Merced, USA
Amber Smith (Vice Chair) | University Of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA
Kevin Tsai | University of California, Riverside, USA
Qixuan Wang | University of California, Riverside, USA
Dominik Wodarz | University of California, Irvine, USA
Roya Zandi | University of California, Riverside, USA
Lei Zhang | Peking University, China
Scheduling Sub-Committee
Co-Chairs: Francesco Pancaldi, Mykhailo Potomkin, Jolene Britton
Members: Mark Alber, Weitao Chen, Heyrim Cho, Yat Tin Chow, Kevin Tsai, Qixuan Wang, Jeffrey West
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Sub-Committee
Co-Chairs: Mario Banuelos, Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Suzanne Sindi
Members: Mark Alber, Paul Atzberger, Weitao Chen, Erika Rutter, Stacey Deleria Finely, Marcella Gomez, Elissa Schwartz, Stacey Smith?, Roya Zandi, Lihong Zhao
Education Sub-Committee
Co-Chairs: Fred Adler, Paul Atzberger, Weitao Chen, Veronica Ciocanel, Stacey Smith?, Qixuan Wang
Members: Mark Alber, Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Stanca Ciupe, Chiu-Yen Kao, Reginald McGee, Shelby Scott, Suzanne Sindi, Roya Zandi
Mentoring & Early Career Workshop Sub-Committee
Chair: Stacey Smith?
Members: Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Jia Gou, Elissa Schwartz
Media Sub-Committee
Email: Francesco Pancaldi
Logo: Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Onar Primitivo
Social Media: Heiko Enderling, James Marberry, Suzanne Sindi
Website: Jolene Britton, Jeffrey West
Judging Sub-Committee
Judge Assignments Sub-Committee
Chair: Christian Michael
Members: Daniel Collister, Sergio Lopez Palomares, Jennifer Rangel Ambriz, Amber Smith, Alysha Toomey, Kevin Tsai
Poster Judges
Weitao Chen, Maria-Veronica Ciocanel, Maria Abou Chakra, Tian Hong, Diana White, Jia Gou, Cole Zmurchok, Marc Roussel, Alexandria Volkening, Shikhar Uttam, Juan B. Gutiérrez, Jomar Fajardo Rabajante, Skylar Grey, Daniel Collister, Roya Zandi, Alan Rendall, Lubna Pinky, Daniel Reeves, Eva M Stadler, Naveen Vaidya, Andrei R. Akhmetzhanov, Siddhartha Pratim Chakrabarty, Jinsu Kim, Wasiur KhudaBukhsh, Gilberto Gonzalez-Parra, Debasmita Mukherjee, Chitaranjan Mahapatra, Jae Kyoung Kim, Pamela Pyzza, Heyrim Cho, Nick Cogan, Caitlin Hult, Dongheon Lee, Angelyn Lao, Ivan Ramirez-Zuniga, Cheng Ly, Guillermo Lorenzo, Lihong Zhao, Rebecca Tyson, Racquel U. Tabornal, Tuğba Akman Yıldız, Lora Bailey, Tatiana Miti, Yena Kim, Bryan S. Hernandez, Ken H Andersen, Jessica Crawshaw, Andrea Pugliese, Kishore Hari, Qiyao Peng, Thomas Stiehl, Hem Joshi, Blessing Emerenini, Dhananjay Bhaskar, Daniele Avitabile, Xi Huo, Kyle Dahlin, Gianluca Selvaggio, Sui Tang, Kevin Tsai, Cornelia Pokalyuk, Sarah Catharina Brueningk, Rifaldy Fajar, Gregory Kimmel, Hong Duong, Richard Clarke, Takasu Fugo, Renske Vroomans, Jill Gallaher, Ushasi Roy, Daniel Glazar, Anuraag Bukkuri, Yafei Wang, Susan Massey, Maximilian Strobl, Lingxia Qiao, Wei Zhao, Xiaolu Guo, Seunggyu Lee
Contributed Talk Judges
Weitao Chen, Maria Abou Chakra, Lisanne Rens, Tian Hong, Tamsin Spelman, Babajide oluwaseun Ajayi, Maria Kiskowski-Byrne, Cole Zmurchok, Marc Roussel, Mansoor Haider, Christopher Miles, Shikhar Uttam, Marcella Gomez, Juan B. Gutiérrez, Stacey Smith?, Jomar Fajardo Rabajante, Daniel Collister, Stanca Ciupe, Shernita Lee, Anna Konstorum, Hana Dobrovolny, Lin Wang, Lubna Pinky, Daniel Reeves, Reidun Twarock, Segun Oke, Naveen Vaidya, Morgan Craig, Jinsu Kim, Debasmita Mukherjee, Titin Prihantini, Ummugul Bulut, May Anne Mata, Jonathan Touboul, Chitaranjan Mahapatra, M. Haider Ali Biswas, Michael Cortez, Md Rafiul Islam, Zython Paul T Lachica, Gibin Powathil, Russell Rockne, Ellen Baake, Sebastian Hummel, Caitlin Hult, Sonia Elena Palomino Castro, Dongheon Lee, Gary An, Jonathan Forde, Segun Oke, Peter Rashkov, Rachel Jennings, Heber Lima da Rocha, Sandhya Prabhakaran, Daniel Cooney, Naoki Masuda, Lihong Zhao, Racquel U. Tabornal, Sarita Bugalia, Tuğba Akman Yıldız, Ernesto Augusto Bueno da Fonseca Lima, Chiu-Yen Kao, Bryan S. Hernandez, Benjamin Walker, Jessica Crawshaw, Ranjit Kumar Upadhyay, Natalie Linton, Dagmar Iber, Cicely Macnamara, Calina Copos, Aleksandra Karolak, Abdulmelik Mohammed, Stephanie Dodson, Daniele Avitabile, Amanda Laubmeier, Jonathan Rubin, Diana White, Margherita Maria Ferrari, Anand Singh, Mykhailo Potomkin, Rifaldy Fajar, Alys Clark, Xiaoqing He, Fabian Spill, Richard Clarke, Angela M Reynolds, Steffen Docken, Amber M Smith, Linus Schumacher, Chengyue Wu, Harsh Jain, David Hormuth, Michael Getz, Mubahser Rashid, Stacey Finley, Ambarish Kunwar, Anum Kazerouni, Renee Brady, Giulia Celora, Chazuka Zviiteyi, Marco, Alberto Javarone, Vikram Adhikarla
Prizes Sub-Committee
CDEV: Veronica Ciocanel, Weitao Chen
EDUC: Shelby Scott, Reginald McGee, Stacey Smith?, Qixuan Wang
IMMU: Stanca Ciupe, Jonathan Forde, Heyrim Cho, Amber Smith, Peter Kim
MEPI: Jane Heffernan, Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem, Stacey Smith?, Natalia Komarova
MFBM: Erica Rutter, Paul Atzberger, Roeland Merks, Marcella Gomez
NEUR: Cheng Ly, Wilten Nicola, Youngmin Park
ONCO: Harsh Jain, Gibin Powathil
POPD: Christina Cobbold, Virginia Pasour, Suzanne M Lenhart, Ellen Baake
OTHE: Gibin Powathil, Natalia Komarova
MMPB: German Enciso, Roeland Merks
CBBS: German Enciso, Peter Kim
DEI: Suzanne Sindi, Mikahl Banwarth-Kuhn, Qixuan Wang
Covid-19: Heiko Enderling, Heyrim Cho
Overall Poster Prizes: Ellen Baake, Heiko Enderling, Peter Kim, Lisette de Pillis, Gibin Powathil Suzanne Lenhart, Roeland Merks
Financial Sub-Committee
Chair: Mark Alber
Members: Weitao Chen, Melissa Gomez
Registration Sub-Committee
Co-Chairs: Weitao Chen
Members: Jolene Britton, Melissa Gomez, Deborah Terao, Kevin Tsai
International Sub-Committees
Cooperation with ESMTB
Chair: Mark Alber
Members: Ellen Baake, Weitao Chen, Lisette de Pillis, Roeland Merks, Amber Smith
Cooperation with Asia & Oceania
Co-Chairs: Weitao Chen, Heyrim Cho
Members: Jae Kyoung Kim, Peter Kim, Gen Kurosawa, Lei Zhang
International Zoom & Tech Support Team
Lingxia Qiao, Wei Zhao, Xiaolu Guo, Adriana Zanca, Lucy Harrison, Jessica Crawshaw, Gen Kurosawa, Shingo Gibo, James Slghee Kim, Yongin Choi, Heejin Choi, Suyun Kim, Yong Dam Jeong, Yunil Roh, Sooyoun Choi, Donggu Lee, Junho Lee, Hyungchul Kim, Eui Min Jeong, Dae Wook Kim, Seokjoo Chae, Hyukpyo Hong, Yun Min Song, Youngsuk Ko, Jongmin Lee
Sponsors Sub-Committee
Chair: Denise Kirschner
Members: Mark Alber, Weitao Chen, Melissa Gomez, Amber Smith