Zach Turner

Research Project 2, MISM
Graduate Student

I am a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University. My current research interests are: 

• The analysis of partial differential equations arising in biology and fluid dynamics. My main interest in this direction is rigorously proving results about the enhancement of biological reactions that is driven by some underlying mechanism in order to better understand its role in biology, in particular biological transport via chemotaxis.
• Mathematical and computational modeling of the immune system and infectious disease. I am particularly interested in HIV modeling in a lymph node on-a-chip setting. Here, my main tools are ordinary and partial differential equations, and stochastic processes. I am also interested in computational image analysis of images coming from these experiments.

I am excited to be a part of the Multiscale Immune Systems Modeling network, and look forward to applying my knowledge to cutting-edge research in biology!

My website is: https://sites.google.com/view/zgturner/home.