Biomathematics Graduate Program at North Carolina State University

The Biomathematics Graduate Program faculty consists of individuals within the Department of Statistics and the Department of Mathematics, plus individuals in other departments at NCSU and off-campus adjunct faculty whose main interests involve modeling biological systems.

Core Faculty

Kevin Gross

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
Research Interests: Theoretical and statistical ecology, model selection for ecological time series, population dynamics, statistical practice in ecology

Sharon Lubkin

Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Transport and mechanobiology in tissue dynamics

Charles E. Smith

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics
Research Interests: Neurobiology, stochastic processes, physiological models

Associate Faculty

William R. Atchley

William Neal Reynolds Professor of Genetics and Statistics. International Graduate School in Bioinformatics and Genomics (Germany)
Research Interests: Computational biology, molecular evolution of proteins- particularly transcriptional regulators, evolution and structure of the basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) family of transcription factors, application of multivariate statistical methods to sequence analysis, developmental quantitative genetics, genetic architecture of complex traits.

H. Thomas Banks

Director of Center for Research in Scientific Computation, University Professor and Drexel Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: Population modeling, cellular and system level PBPK modeling, viscoelastic and tissue continuum modeling, mixed effects and probabilistic models, biomedical diagnostics (particularly using electromagnetic interrogation techniques), HIV (immune system) modeling and STI control, general inverse (estimation) and control problems in biological systems

John Bishir

Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematics

James F. Gilliam

Professor, Biology Department
Research Interests: Population ecology, especially spatial processes. Behavioral ecology, especially decisions under threat of death. Ecology of streams and rivers.

Nick Haddad

William Neal Reynolds Professor, Biology Department
Research Interests: Spatial population and community ecology, conservation biology in fragmented landscapes

Mansoor Haider

Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Cartilage mechanics, osteoarthritis, cell mechanics, cell-matrix interactions, tissue engineering

Carol Hall

Alcoa Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests: Computer simulations of protein folding and aggregation

George R. Hess

Professor, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources
Research Interests: Conservation biology in suburbanizing landscapes, effective teaching and learning

Thomas Johnson

Emeritus Professor, Agric. and Resource Economics Department

W. Owen McMillan

Associate Professor, Genetics Department
Research Interests: Integration of high-resolution molecular data (DNA sequences, microsatellites, multi-locus DNA fingerprints, and, more recently, gene expression data) with developmental and ecological information to understand the origins of functional variation. Key current research projects/programs include: 1) Genetic Basis of Convergent Evolution, 2) Developmental Architecture of Mimicry in Heliconius, and 3) Population History of Morphological Differentiation.

Spencer V. Muse

Professor, Department of Statistics

Mette Olufsen

Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Mathematical physiology, control of the cardiovascular system, cardiovascular fluid dynamics

Kenneth H. Pollock

Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biology
Research Interests: Wildlife and fisheries statistics and modelling, ecology and conservation biology, sampling animal populations, biometrics

Jim Riviere

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Chemical Toxicology Research and Pharmacokinetics, College of Veterinary Medicine

Henry Schaffer

Professor, Department of Genetics

James F. Selgrade

Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Population biology and genetics, endocrine modeling, menstrual cycle control, dynamical systems and ordinary differential equations

Seth Sullivant

Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Research Interests: Phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, algebraic statistics

R. E. Stinner

Professor Emeritus, Department of Entomology

Jeff Thorne

Professor, Departments of Genetics and Statistics
Research Interests: Molecular evolution

Hien T. Tran

Professor, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, Department of Mathematics

Gail G. Wilkerson

Professor, Crop Science Department

Zhao-Bang Zeng

William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics and Genetics