Athan's Curriculum Vitae

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Athan Spiros, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia, September, 1998.

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Leah Edelstein-Keshet

Doctoral Thesis: Investigating Models for Cross-linker Mediated Actin Filament Dynamics
M.A. Mathematics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, May, 1992.
B.Sc. Applied Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, June, 1990.

9/01 - present	Chief Technology Officer, In Silico Biosciences, Inc. My main responsibilities are as production manager, computer programmer, and web designer.
9/00 - 9/01	Programmer, In Silico Biosciences, Inc. Worked part-time to develop computer simulation in Alzheimer's disease and develop HTML documentation.
5/99 - 9/01	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia. Worked part-time to develop a computer simulation in Java for Alzheimer's disease.
9/93 - 4/99	Mathematics Instructor, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia. Instructed 9 sections of first year calculus. Lectured, made and marked exams (including finals), and assigned grades.
1/93 - 4/93	Teaching Assistant, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia. Helped students one-on-one in a tutorial center and met with a class once per week to answer questions.
1/92 - 5/92	Teaching Assistant, Mathematics Department, S.U.N.Y at Stony Brook. Attended a course to teach mathematics and met with a class twice per week to both lecture and answer questions.
1/90-3/90	Marker, Mathematics Department, Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo). Marked for a course on methods of proofs.

Edelstein-Keshet, Leah and Spiros, Athan (2002) ``Exploring the Formation of Alzheimer's Disease Senile Plaques in Silico''. Journal of Theoretical Biology (in press).
Spiros, Athan and Edelstein-Keshet, Leah (1998) ``Testing a Model for the Dynamics of Actin Structures with Biological Parameter Values''. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 60: 275-305.

A Simple Model for Studying Actin Cross-Linker Equilibria. Pacific Northwest Workshop on Mathematical Biology, Friday Harbor, Washington, March 1998.
Put Your Left Foot In And Shake It All About: the development of integro-PDE's to describe non-local reactions. Graduate Student Seminar, University of British Columbia, April 1997.
The Formation of Actin Filament Networks. Pacific Northwest Workshop on Mathematical Biology, Washington State University, March 1997.
Clusters and Bundles of Actin Filaments. Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 1996.
Walking Filaments. Pacific Northwest Workshop on Mathematical Biology, University of British Columbia, May 1995.
Active Leaf Movements. Joint Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and Society of Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, July 1994.

1992-95	University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia.
1993 (summer)	Special School on Mathematical Biology at the University of British Columbia.
1990-92	University Fellowship, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook.
1990	Graduated top of the class (i.e. first) in the School of Science and Mathematics at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo).
1989 (summer)	Research Experience for Undergraduates (by NSF) at the University of Utah.
1988-90	President's Honor List, Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo).
1986-90	Dean's Honor List, Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo).