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  • 2012 - SIAM Fellow For pioneering the mathematics of cardiac electrophysiology, elucidating scroll waves, the bidomain equations, and the mechanism of defibrillation.

Overview

James P. Keener is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Plant Science.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Keener's recent publications illustrate a diverse research scope, notably:

  • "Kinetic model of two-monomer polymerization" (2020, Physical Review E)
  • "A mathematical model analyzing temperature threshold dependence in cold sensitive neurons" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Initiation and entrainment of multicellular automaticity via diffusion limited extracellular domains" (2021, Biophysical Journal)
  • "A Mathematical Model for Inheritance of DNA Methylation Patterns in Somatic Cells" (2020, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology)
  • "A mathematical model of flagellar gene regulation and construction in Salmonella enterica" (2020, PLoS Computational Biology)

Frequent coauthors in their work include Cody FitzGerald, Kees McGahan, Steven Poelzing, Aaron L. Fogelson, and Kiersten Utsey.

Keener's research is often published in venues such as:

  • Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Physical Review E
  • SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

In 2012, James P. Keener was recognized as a SIAM Fellow for contributions to the mathematics of cardiac electrophysiology, specifically for work on scroll waves, bidomain equations, and the mechanism of defibrillation.

Best Publications

  • Mathematical physiology

    James Keener;James Sneyd

  • Propagation and its failure in coupled systems of discrete excitable cells

    James P. Keener

  • Principles Of Applied Mathematics: Transformation And Approximation

    James P. Keener

  • INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE MODELS OF NERVE MEMBRANE RESPONSE TO OSCILLATORY INPUT.

    J. P. Keener;F. C. Hoppensteadt;J. Rinzel

  • The Perron-Frobenius theorem and the ranking of football teams

    James P. Keener

  • A geometrical theory for spiral waves in excitable media

    James P Keener

  • Solitons under perturbations

    J. P. Keener;D. W. McLaughlin

  • Chaotic behavior in piecewise continuous difference equations

    James P. Keener

  • Instabilities of a propagating pulse in a ring of excitable media.

    Marc Courtemanche;Marc Courtemanche;Marc Courtemanche;Leon Glass;Leon Glass;Leon Glass;James P. Keener;James P. Keener;James P. Keener

  • The dynamics of three-dimensional scroll waves in excitable media

    James P. Keener

  • Waves in Excitable Media

    J. P. Keener

  • The role of the biofilm matrix in structural development

    N. G. Cogan;James P. Keener

  • An eikonal-curvature equation for action potential propagation in myocardium.

    James P. Keener

  • Uniqueness of flow of a second-order fluid past a stretching sheet

    William C. Troy;Edward A. Overman;G. B. Ermentrout;James P. Keener

  • Principles of applied mathematics

    James P. Keener

  • The dynamics of scroll waves in excitable media

    James P. Keener;John J. Tyson

  • A numerical method for the solution of the bidomain equations in cardiac tissue.

    J. P. Keener;K. Bogar

  • Perturbed bifurcation theory

    James P. Keener;James P. Keener;Herbert B. Keller;Herbert B. Keller

  • Sodium channels in the Cx43 gap junction perinexus may constitute a cardiac ephapse: an experimental and modeling study

    Rengasayee Veeraraghavan;Joyce Lin;Gregory S. Hoeker;James P. Keener

  • Sensitivity analysis and quantification of uncertainty for isotopic mixing relationships in carbon cycle research

    J.M. Zobitz;J.P. Keener;H. Schnyder;D.R. Bowling

  • Dispersion of traveling waves in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction

    J. D. Dockery;J. P. Keener

  • Kinetics of Swelling Gels

    James P. Keener;Sarthok Sircar;Aaron L. Fogelson

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Tyson
John J. Tyson Virginia Tech
Leon Glass
Leon Glass McGill University
Robert G. Gourdie
Robert G. Gourdie Virginia Tech
Keiichi Namba
Keiichi Namba Osaka University
David W. McLaughlin
David W. McLaughlin Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Tohru Minamino
Tohru Minamino Osaka University
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Charpentier Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology
David R. Bowling
David R. Bowling University of Utah
John Rinzel
John Rinzel New York University
Kelly T. Hughes
Kelly T. Hughes University of Utah

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