Denise Kirschner, PhD, Co-Director, Center for Systems Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. Caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the standard regimen for treating TB consists of treatment…

Dr. Jonathan Montaño, New Mexico State University In how many points does a curve in the plane intersect a random straight line? The answer to this question is an invariant of the curve called "degree". The notion of degree extends to higher dimensional shapes that are defined in terms of polynomials (varieties) and it is…