Valerie Hower - University of Miami Department of Mathematics

Valerie Hower
Ph.D. in Mathematics University of Georgia May 2007
Appointments and Postdoctoral Institutions
University of Miami Assistant Professor 2012–
Department of Mathematics
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Participant Fall 2011
University of California–Berkeley NSF Postdoctoral Fellow 2009–2011
Department of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology Visiting Assistant Professor 2008/2009
School of Mathematics
Wake Forest University School of Medicine NIH Postdoctoral Trainee 2007/2008
Department of Cancer Biology
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Visiting Scholar 2007/2008
Publications
V. Hower, R. Starfield, A. Roberts, L. Pachter, Quantifying uniformity of mapped reads,
arXiv:1109.5681v1 [q-bio.GN].
J. Chifman, A. Kniss, P. Neupane, I. Williams, B. Leung, P. Mendes, V. Hower, F.M. Torti, S.A.
Akman, S.V. Torti, and R. Laubenbacher, The core control system of intracellular iron
homeostasis: a mathematical model, J Theor Biol, to appear.
D.F. Cortes, W. Sha, V. Hower, G. Blekherman, R. Laubenbacher, S. Akman, S.V. Torti, V.
Shulaev, Differential gene expression in normal and transformed human mammary
epithelial cells in response to oxidative stress, Free Radic Biol Med, DOI:
10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.03.002.
A. Abrams, D. Gay, V. Hower, Discretized configurations and partial partitions, Proc. Amer.
Math. Soc., to appear.
V. Hower, S.N. Evans, L. Pachter, Shape-based peak identification for ChIP-Seq, BMC
Bioinformatics, 12:15 (2011). 1
S.N. Evans, V. Hower, L. Pachter, Coverage statistics for sequence census methods, BMC
Bioinformatics, 11:430 (2010). 1
V. Hower, C.E. Heitsch, Parametric analysis of RNA branching configurations, Bull. Math. Biol.,
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9607-3.
R. Laubenbacher, V. Hower, A. Jarrah, S.V. Torti, V. Shulaev, P. Mendes, F.M. Torti, S. Akman,
A systems biology view of cancer, Biochim Biophys Acta - Reviews on Cancer 1796 (2009),
129-139.
V. Hower, P. Mendes, F.M. Torti, R. Laubenbacher, S. Akman, V. Shulaev, S.V. Torti, A general
map of mammalian iron metabolism with tissue-specific subnetworks, Mol. Biosyst. 5
(2009), 422-443.
V. Hower, A counterexample to the maximality of toric varieties, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 136
(2008), 4139-4142.
V. Hower, Hodge spaces of real toric varieties, Collect. Math. 59 (2008), 215-237.
V. Hower, Liouville’s formula on time scales, Dynam. Sys. Applic. 12 (2003), 79-86. (published
as V. Cormani)
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Teaching Honors
TA Mentor: University of Georgia: University of Georgia, 2006/2007
Award for Excellence in Teaching: University of Georgia, Spring 2006
Selected Talks
10/2011 Discrete Methods and Models in Biomathematics AMS Sectional Meeting: Lincoln
02/2011 Mathematics Colloquium Oregon State U.
02/2011 Mathematics and Statistics Lunch Talk Smith College
02/2011 Topology Colloquium Emory U.
01/2011 MBI Seminar The Ohio State U.
01/2011 Mathematics Colloquium U. of Miami
01/2011 Cancer Biology Seminar Wake Forest U. School of Medicine
07/2010 AWM Recent Ph.D. Minisymposium SIAM National Meeting: Pittsburgh
03/2010 Advances in Algebraic Statistics Session AMS Sectional Meeting: Lexington
01/2010 Applications of Algebraic Geometry Session AMS National Meeting: San Francisco
01/2009 Algebraic Geometry Seminar The Ohio State U.
08/2008 Molecular Biophysics Research Review Seminar Georgia Insitute of Technology
07/2008 Research Progress Reports Seminar Wake Forest U. School of Medicine
05/2007 Interactions between Algebraic Geometry Centre de Recherches Math. (CRM)
and Algebraic Combinatorics Workshop
03/2007 Topology Seminar Emory U.
Posters
11/2010 Computational Biology Retreat UC Berkeley
08/2010 Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology MBI
05/2009 Computational Biology Lab Opening Celebration UC Berkeley
04/2009 Career Options for Women IMA
01/2009 Connections for Women in Algebraic Geometry MSRI
03/2008 Organization of Biological Networks IMA
09/2007 Deconstructing Biochemical Networks CRM
Synergistic Activities
Co-organizer of High-Throughput Genomics Seminar for IPAM Core Participants, Fall 2011, IPAM.
Organizer of Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar, Fall 2009–Spring 2011, UC Berkeley.
Co-organizer of Mini-symposium for Computational Biology, October 2009, SIAM Meeting on
Mathematics for the Industry, San Francisco, CA.
Research Mentor for Yingying Zeng (biology graduate student in the lab of Steve Harvey),
Fall 2008, Georgia Insititute of Technology.
Course Assistant for IMA Summer Graduate Program in Applicable Algebraic Geometry, Summer
2007, Texas A&M University.
Assistant and Mentor for the VIGRE Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in
Combinatorial Configuration Spaces, Summer 2004, University of Georgia.
Assistant and Mentor for the REU in Applied Mathematics, Summer 2002, University of
Nebraska.