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Tufail Muhammad Malik McCain Postdoctoral Research Fellow

RESEARCH Interests: Mathematical models in biology using ordinary differential equations, Modelling of non-linear dynamical systems, Models of resource optimization in photosynthesis and photoacclimation in phytoplankton, Models of adaptive microbe growth, Microbial quiescence, Disease latency. Current Research: Photoacclimation in Unicellular Phytoplankton Developing dynamic models of photosynthetic machinery to investigate the evolution and ecology of phytoplankton with different light harvesting and resource allocation strategies. It is a step towards predicting how marine primary producers (essentially microscopic plants) will respond to changing temperatures and ocean circulation. This is essential to understanding feedbacks between climate change and life on Earth. PhD – Arizona State University, 2007 Dissertation: Microbial Quiescence – A Survival Strategy in Environmental Stress

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