Stephen J. Merrill - Professor of Mathematics
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Major Research
Interests
- Mathematical models in immunology utilizing a variety of methods including differential equations and stochastic techniques
- The role of randomness in dynamical systems
- Creativity and dreaming
- The mechanism of action of medicinal herbs
- Descriptions of “normal aging”
Education
- PhD in Mathematics from University of Iowa, 1976. Mathematical genealogy.
- Visiting Positions
- Lefschetz Center for Dynamical
Systems (
- Santa Fe Institute (Program in Theoretical Immunology)
- Center for Nonlinear Studies
and Theoretical Biology and Biophysics
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Current and Recent
Research
- Modeling of the role of cofactors in an HIV infection ( this work has been reviewed in New Scientist 6 September, 1997, p. 12 : HIV's hidden helpers)
- Markov chain analysis of heart rate variability
- Quantitative description of immune reconstitution after stem cell transplantation with St. Luke's Hospital in Milwaukee
- Diversity
in the HCV genome with the
- Modeling of the microarray
- Teaching the creative process
- Modeling changes in the neurological exam with age
Recent Talks and
Posters
- ISL July 2006
- SMB/SIAM Life Sciences August 2006
- Society For Neuroscience poster October 2006
- Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences July 2008
Editorial Positions
- Section Editor: Software Notices, Journal of Immunological Methods
- Section Editor: Computational Modeling in Immunology, Journal of Immunological Methods
- Editorial Board: Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences
Recent Publications
- S.J. Merrill, R.J. DeBoer, and A.S. Perelson, Development of the T-cell repertoire: clone size distribution, Rocky Mt. J. Math., 24 (1994) 213-231.
- S.J. Merrill and J. R. Cochran, Markov chain methods in the analysis of heart rate variability, Fields Institute Comm., 11 (1997) 241-252.
- R.S. Root-Bernstein and S.J. Merrill, The necessity of cofactors in the pathogenesis of AIDS: A mathematical model, J. Theor. Biol., 187 (1997) , 135-146.
- S.J. Merrill
and R.S. Root-Bernstein, A model of the role of cofactors in the
initiation and development of AIDS,
- S.J. Merrill, Computational Models in immunological methods: an historical review, J. Immunol. Meth., 126 (1998) ,69-92. web-version
- B.M. Murphy, S.J. Merrill, and A. LeFever, The engraftment kinetics of white blood cells and platelets following peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Computing & Mathematical Modeling, Milwaukee, WI, June 2000, 209-212.
- R.S. Root-Bernstein and S.J. Merrill, Etiology and Pathogenesis of AIDS, in AIDS and Complementary and Alternative Medicine, L.J. Standish, C. Calabrese, and M.L. Galantino (eds.), Churchill-Livingstone (2002), 31-50.
- S.J.
Merrill and S.E. Merrill, Introductory biological sequence analysis
through spreadsheets, Proc. of 13th ICTCM,
- H. Wang, T. Bian, S.J. Merrill, and D.D. Eckels, Sequence variation in the gene encoding the non-structural 3 protein of hepatitis C virus: Evidence for immune selection, J. Mol. Evol. 54 (2002), 465-473.
- S.J. Merrill and B.M. Murphy, Detecting autocatalytic dynamics in data modeled by a compartmental model, Math. Biosci. 180 (2002), 255-262.
- S.J. Merrill, Solving problems: perchance to dream, in ICTMA 11: Mathematical Modelling: A Way of Life, S.J. Lamon, W.A. Parker, and S.K. Houston (eds.), Chichester, UK: Horwood Publishing, Ltd. (2003), 97-105.
- S.J.
Merrill, S. Nelson, and C.A. Struble, Spatial dependence of hybridization
in the cDNA microarray,
- S.J. Merrill, The stochastic dance of early HIV infection, J. Comp. Appl. Math. 184 (2005), 242-257.
- S.J. Merrill, To again feel the creative voice, Int. J. of Sci. and Math. Ed., 5 (2007), 145-164.
- S.J. Merrill, B. Myklebust, J. Myklebust, N. Reynolds, and E. Duthie, A Poisson-like model of sub-clinical signs from the examination of healthy aging subjects, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 20 (2008), 368-375.
- E. Tick, S. Merrill, and A. Huber, Sheepish: Health store as healing sanctuary, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing, 4 (2008), 63-65.
- J. Blimke, J. Myklebust, H. Volkmer, S. Merrill, Four-shell ellipsoidal model employing multipole expansion in ellipsoidal coordinates, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 46 (2008), 859-869.
Special Interest
- The Marquette University Home Page
- The Department MSCS at Marquette University
- Computational Sciences Doctoral Program in MSCS
- The Biomathematics Program at Marquette University.
- Actuarial Science Program at MU
- The Society for Mathematical Biology
- Excel spreadsheets for sequence analysis: simple homology hydrophobicity sequence evolution
- Sheepish : Traditional Sources of Wellness and Healing
- Dr. Edward Tick speaks on "War and The Soul"
- (September 4, 2006) Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Feature Article
- Description of Marquette Electronic Outreach (M.E.O), a distance learning project
Phone: (414)-288-5237
Fax: (414)-288-5472
E-Mail: stevem@mscs.mu.edu