Valerie Hower
  (at) math.miami.edu
CV
 I am an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Miami. 
I am interested in genomics, computational biology, and topological and probabilistic methods in data analysis.
Spring 2012, I am teaching MTH 210 MWF 2:30-3:20.


Activities
SIAM Minisymposium Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Biology July 2012.

SIAM Minisymposium Sequence Analysis June 2012.

Frontiers in Mathematical Biology: Young Investigators Conference February 2012.

AMS Special Session Discrete Methods and Models in Biomathematics October 2011.

IPAM Program Mathematical and Computational Approaches in High-Throughput Genomics September to December 2011.

MBI Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology August 2010.

AWM Workshop Recent Ph.D. Minisymposium  Stochastic and Probabilistic Methods and Applications July 2010.
AMS Special Session Advances in Algebraic Statistics March 2010.

AMS-SIAM Special Session Applications of Algebraic Geometry January 2010.
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Papers
 Google Scholar Page
12) V. Hower, R. Starfield, A. Roberts, and L. Pachter, Quantifying uniformity of mapped reads, arXiv:1109.5681v1 [q-bio.GN] , Code for ReadSpy

11) J. Chifman, A. Kniss, P. Neupane, I. Williams, B. Leung, P. Mendes, V. Hower, F.M. Torti, S.A. Akman, S.V. Torti, and R. Laubenbacher, The core control system of intracellular iron homeostasis: a mathematical model, J. Theor. Biol., to appear.

10) D.F. Cortes, W. Sha, V. Hower, G. Blekherman, R. Laubenbacher, S. Akman, S.V. Torti, V. Shulaev, Differential gene expression in normal and transformed human mammary epithelial cells in response to oxidative stress, Free Radic. Biol. Med., DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.03.002

9) A. Abrams, D. Gay, V. Hower, Discretized configurations and partial partitions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., to appear. arXiv version

8) V. Hower, S.N. Evans, L. Pachter, Shape-based peak identification for ChIP-Seq, BMC Bioinformatics, 12:15 (2011).  DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-12-15  Code for T-PIC

7) S.N. Evans, V. Hower, L. Pachter, Coverage statistics for sequence census methods, BMC Bioinformatics, 11:430 (2010).  DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-11-430

6) V. Hower, C.E. Heitsch, Parametric analysis of RNA branching configurations, Bull. Math. Biol., DOI: 10.1007/s11538-010-9607-3
5) R. Laubenbacher, V. Hower, A. Jarrah, S.V. Torti, V. Shulaev, P. Mendes, F.M. Torti, S. Akman, A systems biology view of cancer, Biochim Biophys Acta - Reviews on Cancer, 1796 (2009), 129-139.  DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2009.06.001
 
4) V. Hower, P. Mendes, F.M. Torti, R. Laubenbacher, S. Akman, V. Shulaev, S.V. Torti, A general map of mammalian iron metabolism and tissue-specific subnetworks, Mol. Biosyst., 5 (2009),  422-443.   DOI: 10.1039/b816714c

3) V. Hower, A counterexample to the maximality of toric varieties, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 136 (2008), 4139-4142.

2) V. Hower, Hodge spaces of real toric varieties, Collect. Math., 59 (2008), 215-237.

1) V. Hower, Liouville's formula on time scales, Dynam. Sys. Applic., 12 (2003), 79-86. (published as V. Cormani)