Research publications

  • Modeling growth and telomere dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (with Alison Bertuch), submitted, 2009

  • A stochastic model of cell cycle desynchronization (with Thomas O. McDonald), to appear in Mathematical Biosciences, 2009

  • Can shortening of telomeres explain sigmoidal growth curves? to appear in Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2009

  • Size-biased branching population measures and the multi-type xlogx condition to appear in Bernoulli, 2009

  • A stochastic model of a cell population with quiescence. Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2008, 2(4), 386-391

  • Mathematical modeling of telomere shortening (with Marek Kimmel). In: P. Haccou and P. Jagers, Branching Processes in Biology - Extinction,
        Growth and Variation    . Cambridge university press, 2005

  • Exact sampling formulas for multi-type Galton-Watson processes (with Chad Shaw). Journal of Mathematical Biology, 2002, 45, 279-293.

  • An application of a general branching process in the study of the genetics of aging (with Otto Schwalb, Ranajit Chakraborty and Marek Kimmel).
        Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2001, 213(4), 547-557

  • Mathematical modeling of telomere shortening: an overview. Archives of Control Sciences , 1999, 9(XLV), 133-141

  • A Poisson approximation with applications to the number of maxima in a discrete sample. Statistics and Probability Letters, 1999, 44, 23-27

  • A branching process model of telomere shortening. Communications in Statistics-Stochastic Models, 2000, 16(1), 167-177

  • Stochastic models of telomere shortening (with Marek Kimmel). Mathematical Biosciences, 1999, 158, 75-92

  • The xlogx condition for general branching processes. Journal of Applied Probability, 1998, 35, 537-544

  • General branching processes with immigration. Journal of Applied Probability, 1996, 33, 940-948

  • Branching processes with local dependencies. In: K. Athreya and P. Jagers (eds.), Classical and Modern Branching Processes. Springer, New York, 1996

  • Branching processes with local dependencies. Annals of Applied Probability, 1996, 6, 238-268

  • General branching processes with local dependencies. Ph.D. thesis, Goteborg, Sweden, 1994

  • Convergence of maxima with Poisson approximation (with Per Nordin). M.S. thesis (in Swedish), Goteborg, Sweden, 1989


    Submitted and in preparation

  • Shortening of telomeres, sigmoidal growth curves, and general branching processes, submitted

  • A stochastic model of telomere maintenance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, joint with Alison A. Bertuch, Baylor College of Medicine, in preparation

  • A stochastic model of cell cycle desynchronization, joint with Thomas O. McDonald, Trinity University, in preparation