Publications
Hayes, D.; Schrum, J.; Betts, K.; and Weisstein, A.E. In prep. “Building Mathematical Models and Biological Insight in an Introductory Biology Course.”
Weisstein, A.E.; Hoogendyk, T.; Spangenberg, J.; and Jungck, J.R. In prep. “The Biological ESTEEM Online Collection: Excel Tools for Exploratory, Experiential Mathematics.”
Robertson, R.; Weisstein, A.E.; and Braude, S. In press. “Drift, demographic stochasticity, and extinction.” Chapter 11 (pp. 67-71) in A Working Understanding of Ecology. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey.
Templeton, A.R.; Reichert, R.A.; Weisstein, A.E.; Markham, R.B.; and Yu, X.-F. 2004. “Selection in context: Patterns of natural selection in the glycoprotein 120 region of human immunodeficiency virus 1 within infected individuals.” Genetics 167: 1547-1561.
Spencer, H.G.; Feldman, M.W; Clark, A.G.; and Weisstein, A.E. 2004. “The effect of genetic conflict on genomic imprinting and modification of expression at a sex-linked locus.” Genetics 166: 565-579.
Weisstein, A.E.; and Spencer, H.G. 2003. “The evolution of genomic imprinting via variance minimization: an evolutionary genetic model.” Genetics 165: 205-222.
Weisstein, A.E. 2003. “A Plague on Both Houses: Modeling Viral Infection to Control a Pest Outbreak.” Pp. 285-294 in Microbes Count! Jungck, J.R.; Fass, M. F.; and Stanley, E.D., editors. Canterbury Press: New York.
Donovan, S., and Weisstein, A.E. 2003. “Exploring HIV Evolution: An Opportunity for Research.” Pages 137-148 in Microbes Count! Jungck, J.R.; Fass, M.F.; and Stanley, E.D., editors. Canterbury Press: New York.
Jungck, J.R.; Johnson, T.; Weisstein, A.E.; and Tusin, J. 2003. “Modeling More Mold.” Pp. 33-39 in Microbes Count! Jungck, J.R.; Fass, M.F.; and Stanley, E.D., editors. Canterbury Press: New York.
Weisstein, A.E.; Feldman, M.W.; and Spencer, H.G. 2002. “Evolutionary genetic models of the ovarian time-bomb hypothesis for the evolution of genomic imprinting.” Genetics 162: 425-439.
Carneiro, M.; Yu, X.-F.; Lyles, C.; Templeton, A.; Weisstein, A.E.; et al. 1999. “The effect of drug-injection behavior on genetic evolution of HIV-1.” J. Infect. Dis. 180: 1025-1032.
Markham, R.B.; Wang, W.; Weisstein, A.E.; Wang, Z.; Munoz, A.; et al. 1998. “Patterns of HIV-1 evolution in individuals with differing rates of CD4 T cell decline.” Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 12568-12573.
Presentations (since 2000)
May 2008. “Exploring HIV Evolution”, “Tamarix phylogeography”, and “Population Genetics – The Case of the Protective Protein”. SELECTION Working Group Meeting; National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC.
April 2008. “The Biological ESTEEM Project: Linear Algebra, Population Genetics, and Microsoft Excel” and “The Case of the Protective Protein”. Workshop on Integrating Curricula in the Mathematical, Biological, and Environmental Sciences; Longwood University, Farmville, VA.
March 2008. “Molecular Forensics”, “Structural Bioinformatics and the Tree of Life”, and “Evolutionary Bioinformatics”. 2008 American Society for Microbiology/BioQUEST Bioinformatics Institute; ASM headquarters, Washington, DC.
October 2007. “Unveiling the Past: New Analyses for Inferring Evolutionary and Demographic Histories from Current Patterns of Genetic Variation”. Guest lectures at Benedictine University (Lisle, IL), the College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL), and A.T. Still University (Kirksville, MO).
October 2007. “Biomedical Modeling: Applications of Differential Equations in Pharmacology and Public Health.” Guest lecture at Benedictine University; Lisle, IL.
August 2007. “Biological ESTEEM: Linear Algebra, Population Genetics, and Microsoft Excel”. MathFest, Mathematical Association of America; San Jose, CA.
June 2007. “The Biological ESTEEM Project” and “Tree of Life”. BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2007: Exploratory Evolution Education; Beloit College, Beloit, WI.
May 2007. “Integration of Math and Micro Across the Curriculum”. American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Education; University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY.
October 2006. “The Biological ESTEEM Project”. Association of College and University Biology Educators; Millikin University, Decatur, IL.
July 2006. “The Biological ESTEEM Project”. Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum 2006; The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
June 2006. “Evolutionary Bioinformatics” and “The Biological ESTEEM Project”. BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2006: Exploring Complex Data Sets; Beloit College, Beloit, WI.
June 2006. “Modeling in Excel” and “An Introduction to the Biology Workbench”. Computational Biology for Biology Educators 2006 (National Computational Sciences Institute). Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA.
October 2005. “Bioinformatics Research Projects in the Classroom: The HIV Evolution Problem Space” and “Biological ESTEEM: Excel Simulations and Tools for Exploratory, Experiential Mathematics”. Integrating Physics, Chemistry, Math, and Biology through Bioinformatics. University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN.
October 2005. “Biological ESTEEM: Excel Simulations and Tools for Exploratory, Experiential Mathematical Biology”. Association of College and University Biology Educators. Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO.
July 2005. “An Introduction to Phylogenetics” and “Programming in Excel”. Computational Biology for Biology Educators 2005 (National Computational Sciences Institute). Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA.
June 2005. “An Introduction to the Biology Workbench”. BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2005: Investigating Interdisciplinary Interactions; Beloit College, Beloit, WI.
January 2005. “An Introduction to the HIV Problem Space” and “An Introduction to Phylogenetics”. Bioinformatics in Biology Education: Working with Sequence, Structure, and Function. Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City, OK.
July 2004. “An Introduction to the Biology Workbench” and “Online Resources for Computational Biology”. Computational Biology for Biology Educators 2004 (National Computational Sciences Institute). North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC.
July 2004. “Molecular phylogenetics: Tree construction and testing hypotheses”, “The HIV Problem Space”, and “Image Analysis: Population Growth”. Mathematical and Computational Biology Education (BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium). University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR.
June 2004. “An Introduction to the Biology Workbench” and “Online Resources for Computational Biology”. Computational Biology for Biology Educators 2004 (National Computational Sciences Institute). Ohio Supercomputer Center, Columbus, OH.
June 2004. “Molecular phylogenetics”, “Hands-on Exploration using Biology Workbench”, and “The Complexity of HIV/AIDS: Where politics meet biology.” BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2004: Systems Biology Education. Beloit College, Beloit, WI.
May 2004. “The evolutionary basis of bioinformatics: an introduction to phylogenetics theory and applications” and “Bioinformatics and Viral Evolution: HIV”. Hands-on Teaching of Bioinformatics (Midwest Instructional Technology Center). Hope College, Holland, MI.
March 2004. “An introduction to the Tamarix Problem Space” and “Tree Building.” Evolutionary Bioinformatics Education: A BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Approach. Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN.
January 2004. “HIV Problem Solving Session” and “Tree Building.” Bioinformatics in Biology Education: Working with Sequence, Structure, and Function (BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium). Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS.
October 2003. “Conservation and invasive species: a case study on salt cedar in the American West” and “An introduction to the Biology Workbench.” Bioinformatics in Biology Education: Working with Sequence, Structure, and Function (BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium). Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
July 2003. “Construction and analysis of phylogenetic trees from multiple sequence alignments and pairwise distances.” Reading the Book of Life: How Bioinformatics Makes Sense of Molecular Messages (Mathematical Association of America MathFest short course). University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
June 2003. “Computational Tools for Teaching Bioinformatics.” Bridging Research and Teaching – 2003 Workshop. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
June 2003. “Studying HIV evolution within and between patients.” Bridges to the Future Annual Program Meeting (American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). Tahoe City, CA.
May 2003. “Exploring HIV change within and between patients: Drawing biologically meaningful inferences from molecular data”, “An introduction to understanding and teaching phylogenetic concepts and methods”, “Tree of Life: Exploring evolutionary relationships between bacteria using online sequence data from GenBank.” Evolutionary Bioinformatics Education: A BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Approach (NSF Chautauqua short course). Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA.
April 2003. “Exploring HIV change within and between patients: Drawing biologically meaningful inferences from molecular data.” Bioinformatics in Biology Education: Working with Sequence, Structure, and Function (BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium). University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT.
June 2002. “Control of Gene Expression? A Population Genetic Model for the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting.” Annual Meting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
June 2001. “An Evolutionary Genetic Model of the Ovarian Time-Bomb Hypothesis for the Evolution of Genomic Imprinting.” Annual Meting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, TN.
December 2000. “Patterns of within-host HIV-1 evolution and their association with rates of disease progression.” Evolutionary Ecology Symposium, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.