{"id":17,"date":"2020-11-11T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/lsf\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:41:39","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Bentil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim-40 has-grayscale-lighter-30-background-color has-background-dim\" style=\"min-height:200px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-103\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ijdavis\/files\/2020\/12\/university-of-vermont-burlington-vermont-architecture.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"50% 53%\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-columns ab-layout-columns-2 ab-2-col-equal alignfull\" style=\"padding-left:20px\"><div class=\"ab-layout-column-wrap ab-block-layout-column-gap-4 ab-is-responsive-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-column ab-block-layout-column ab-is-vertically-aligned-center\"><div class=\"ab-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biomathematics Research<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research interest is at the interface of applied mathematics and the biomedical sciences, including designing appropriate mathematics courses for life science majors. We study and construct testable mathematical models, which capture key biological processes and show how they are orchestrated. We work in collaboration with experimentalists. Model applications include the following topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Muscle Physiology: Mesoscopic Modeling&nbsp; of&nbsp; Actin-Myosin Interaction<\/li><li>Lung Physiology: Lung Dynamics and Aerosol Deposition in the Acinus<\/li><li>Renal Physiology: Blood Flow, Hemodialysis and Acid-Base Balance in ESRD Patients.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Particular emphasis is placed on (i) development of analytical and numerical techniques for the solution of the model equations (ii) biological interpretation of the results in terms of insights and predictions (iii) model comparison with experimental data and (iv) model refinements as they apply to specific biomedical problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our work is, in part, supported by Grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DoE), and the University of Vermont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact Info<\/strong><br><em>Office<\/em>: <br><em>Phone<\/em>: 802-656-3832<br><em>Email<\/em>: dbentil@uvm.edu<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-column ab-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"ab-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/files\/2021\/04\/ekow_pic_2-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/files\/2021\/04\/ekow_pic_2-edited.jpg 840w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/files\/2021\/04\/ekow_pic_2-edited-768x987.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Daniel Bentil, Associate Professor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignfull is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-columns ab-layout-columns-2 ab-2-col-equal\"><div class=\"ab-layout-column-wrap ab-block-layout-column-gap-2 ab-is-responsive-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-column ab-block-layout-column ab-is-vertically-aligned-top\"><div class=\"ab-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Applied Mathematics\/ Mathematical Biology&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/\">University of Oxford<\/a>, England<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Applied Math<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/\">Univ. of Washington,<\/a>&nbsp;Seattle, WA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-column ab-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"ab-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/?page_id=64\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"64\">Publications<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6673,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6673"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/dbentil\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}