Alexandria Volkening
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics (and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, by courtesy)
Ph.D., Brown University
avolkening@purdue.edu
765-496-1052
Office: MATH 610
Volkening Lab
Biomolecular Structure and Biophysics
Computational and Systems Biology
Active Mentor - currently hosting PULSe students for laboratory rotations and recruiting PULSe students into the laboratory; serves on preliminary exam committees
Current Research Interests:
Selected Publications:
A Volkening, DF Linder, MA Porter, GA Rempala. Forecasting elections using compartmental models of infection. SIAM Review, 62(4):837-865, 2020.
A Volkening. Linking genotype, cell behavior, and phenotype: multidisciplinary perspectives with a basis in zebrafish patterns. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 63:78-85, 2020.
MR McGuirl, A Volkening, B Sandstede. Topological data analysis of zebrafish patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 117(10):5113-5124, 2020.
A Volkening, B Sandstede. Iridophores as a source of robustness in zebrafish stripes and variability in Danio patterns. Nature Communications 9:3231, 2018.
A Volkening, B Sandstede. Modelling stripe formation in zebrafish: an agent-based approach. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12(112):20150812, 2015.
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