Curriculum Vitae

Harold Layton

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Education: A.B., mathematics, summa cum laude, Asbury college, 1979
M.S., physics, University of Kentucky, 1980
Ph.D., mathematics, Duke University, 1986

Areas of Research: Mathematical Physiology

Areas of Experience: Countercurrent Systems
Renal Modeling
Numerical Methods for Renal Models
Computational Biofluiddynamics

Major Grant Support: National Science Foundation: Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1986-1988, ``Mathematical Models of Kidney Function''
National Institutes of Health: First Independent Research Support and Transition Award, 1990-1994, ``Mathematical Models of Renal Dynamics''
National Institutes of Health: Regular Research (R01) Grant, 1995-2000, ``Mathematical Models of Renal Dynamics''
National Science Foundation: Group Infrastructure Grant, 1997-2000, ``Applications of Mathematics to Physiology'' (Michael C. Reed, principal investigator; H. E. Layton and J. JosephBlum, co-principal investigators)
National Institutes of Health: Regular Research (R01) Grant, 2000-2005, ``Mathematical Models of Renal Dynamics''
National Institutes of Health: Regular Research (R01) Grant, 2006-2010, ``Mathematical Models of Renal Dynamics''

Recent Grant Support

Mathematical Models of Renal Dynamics, NIH, 2006/03-2010/02.
Conference on Applications of Analysis to Mathematical Biology, Arts & Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, 2006/11-2007/09.

Selected Recent Invited Talks: The Urine concentrating mechanism of the inner medulla: functional significance of reconstructions based on new immunohistochemical data, San Diego, 15 December 2005; The Urine Concentrating Mechanism of the Rat Kidney Inner Medulla, Emory University School of Medicine, Renal Division, May 18, 2004; Irregular Oscillations in Nephron Flow Mediated by Tubuloglomerular Feedback, AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2003/10/24; Spectral Complexity in TGF Limit-cycle Oscillations, Nephrons and Numbers: The Past and Furture of Renal Systems Physiology (a symposium in honor of Donald Marsh), San Deigo, California, 11 April 2003; Formation of Concentrated Urine by Birds and Mammals, Seminar, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 24 May 2002; Oscillations in Nephron Flow Mediated by Tubuloglomerular Feedback, Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 23 May 2002; Oscillations Mediated by Tubuloglomerular Feedback: Physiological Role and Pathophysiology, Special Session on Applications of Mathematics to Human Physiology and Medicine, at the 2001 National Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, New Orleans, LA, 12 January 2001; Irregular Oscillations in Kidney Nephron Flow May Be Mediated by Tubuloglomerular Feedback (TGF), Minisymposium ``Mathematical Models for Physiology'' at the 2000 SIAM Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, Peurto Rico, 11 July 2000; The Dynamic Kidney, Joint Seminar in Mathematics and Physiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 25 February 1999; Oscillations in the Tubuloglomerular Feedback System, Minisymposium ``Time Delays in Physiological and Neural System'' at the combined annual meetings of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the Society for Mathematical Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 15 July 1998

Doctoral Theses Directed: Kevin Jay Kesseler, Analysis of Feedback-Mediated Dynamics in Two Coupled Nephrons, (2001 - May 09, 2004); Darren Randall Oldson, Flow Perturbations in a Mathematical Model of the Tubuloglomerular Feedback System, (2003); Kayne Marie Arthurs, Flow Regulation in the Afferent Arteriole: An Application of the Immersed Boundary Method, (1996)

Professional Affiliations: American Physiological Society
American Society of Nephrology
Society for Mathematical Biology

Publications (listed separately)

Last modified: 2008/04/03