Valerie Hower
  (at) math.berkeley.edu
CV Personal Math and biology

I am an  NSF postdoc in the mathematics department at UC Berkeley.  I work in the Mathematical and Computational Biology Lab under the direction of Lior Pachter.

Research interests: Topological data analysis, computational biology,  geometric combinatorics

I am organizing the weekly research seminar in computational biology, Wednesdays 2-3 in Evans 939.
Events:
AMS-SIAM Special Session on Applications of Algebraic Geometry, January 2010

DE Computational and Genomic Biology Retreat, November 2009

BaMBA V, November 2009

SIAM Minisymposium in Computational Biology, October 2009

IMA Applied Algebraic Topology, June 2009
Papers
V. Hower, C.E. Heitsch, Parametric analysis of RNA folding, arXiv:0904.3700v1  [q-bio.BM].
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.  DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2009.06.001
 
V. Hower, P. Mendes, F.M. Torti, R. Laubenbacher, S. Akman, V. Shulaev, S.V. Torti, A general map of mammalian iron metabolism and tissue-specific subnetworks, Mol. Biosyst., 5 (2009),  422-443.   DOI: 10.1039/b816714c

A counterexample to the maximality of toric varieties, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 136 (2008), 4139-4142.

Hodge spaces of real toric varieties, Collect. Math., 59 (2008), 215-237.

Liouville's formula on time scales, Dynam. Sys. Applic., 12 (2003), 79-86.