BSc / MSc thesis projects
For VU Mathematics students: Here is a list of possible projects for a BSc or MSc thesis in the area of Mathematical Biology. If you have ideas of your own, do come and discuss them! At the bottom you can also find a list of finished theses.
BSc project ideas
- Structural stability of biochemical pathways
- Integral control and perfect adaptation
- Pattern formation, Turing patterns
- Derivation of evolution equations such as for chemotaxis
- Stochastic modelling of bird song dialects
- Bifurcation analysis of glycolysis including trehalose
- Coordinate transformations for biochemical reactions
- Convergence vs divergence in interspecific bird song
Finished BSc and MSc theses
- Veerle Dinghs. 2019. The mathematics behind semelparous, periodical organisms. (BSc)
- Lonit Peeters. 2019. A reduced model for the active contraction of cardiac sarcomeres. (BSc)
- Martino Pitruzzella. 2018. Numerical experiments on a model for bacterial metabolism. (MSc)
- Wouter Swijgman. 2018. Growth dynamics of cross-feeding microbes. (MSc)
- Christian Tsang. 2018. Een wiskundig model voor tumorgroei. (BSc)
- Wesley Do. 2018. Adaptive dynamics in different interacting populations. (BSc)
- Tom van den Bosch. 2017. Stochastics of growing and persisting cell populations. (MSc)
- Erik Bosch. 2017. Mathematical modelling of ventricular fibrillation via calcium overload. (BSc)
- Wander van der Meer. 2017. A bacterial growth law modelled by EGMs. (BSc)
- Sophia de Jong. 2016. A mathematical model for calcium dynamics in atrial myocytes. (BSc)
- Thierry Mondeel. 2014. Information processing in stochastic two-component signal transduction. (MSc)
- Remco Menting. 2014. De niet-lineaire versterking van de cochlea. (BSc)
- Renate Veelbehr. 2014. Perfecte adaptatie van biochemische processen. (BSc)
- Anne Frances Appelman. 2013. Reductie van Chemische Reactienetwerken. (BSc)
- Thierry Mondeel. 2012. Modelling Neuronal Excitation: The Hodgkin-Huxley Model. (BSc)
- Casper Koning. 2011. Adaptive Dynamics. (BSc)
- Lexmy van den Boogaard. 2010. De Verenigde Neutrale Theorie voor Biodiversiteit en Biogeografie. (BSc)
- Swi Yin Cheung. 2010. Epidemiological modeling of HIV in populations with different sexual structures. (MSc)