About me

I'm currently a Coleman postdoc at Queen's university in Kingston Ontario.

I am broadly interested in mathematical biology. Most of my research revolves around using tools from dynamical systems theory to study bacterial growth and competition.

Research Interests

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    Microbial Ecology

    How do different species of bacteria grow and interact, and how does their environment affect their interactions?

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    Mathematical Epidemiology

    How can we use mathematics to learn about and help prevent the spread of infectious diseases?

Recent Collaborators

  • Troy Day

    Troy Day

    Troy is a professor of mathematics and biology at Queens University. He is mostly interested in evolution. Together, we have been investigating how "persister cells" may have evolved.

  • Felicia Magpantay

    Felicia Magpantay

    Felicia is a professor of mathematics at Queen's University. She is mostly interested in epidemiology. Along with some summer research students, we explored the idea of a "reinfection threshold".

  • Elissa Schwartz

    Elissa Schwartz

    Elissa is a professor of mathematics and biology at Washington State University. She is interested in virology, immunology, and infectious diseases. We have written a few papers exploring a model of equine infectious anemia virus, a virus similar to HIV that infects horses.

  • Benjamin Ridenhour

    Benjamin Ridenhour

    Ben is a professor of mathematics and biology at the University of Idaho. Ben is interested in evolution and epidemiology. Ben and I worked on several COVID projects together, some of which were for the Idaho State Government. We are currently finishing up a project about how to assimilate wastewater data into epidemiological models.

  • Stacy Smith?

    Stacey Smith?

    Stacey is a professor of mathematics at the university of Ottawa. She is interested in modeling neglected tropical diseases and impulsive differential equations.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  1. McMaster University: PhD

    2015 — 2019

    Supervisor: Gail S.K. Wolkowicz
    Thesis Title: Applications of Dynamical Systems to Industrial Microbiology

  2. McMaster University: MSc

    2013 — 2015

    Supervisor: Stanley Alama
    Thesis Title: The Existence of Radially Symetric Vortices in a Ferromagnetic Model of Superconductivity

  3. Brock University: BSc

    2009 — 2013

    Major: Physics
    Thesis Title: Some New Aspects of First Integrals and Symmetries for Central Force Dynamics

Experience

  1. Coleman Postdoctoral Fellow

    2019 — Present

    Queen's University, With Troy Day and Felicia Magpantay

  2. Postdoctoral Fellow

    2019 — 2021

    University of Idaho, With Benjamin Ridenhour and Chris Remien

Invited Talks

  1. SMB Annual Meeting July 2023

    The Evolution of Persister Cells

  2. CMS Summer Meeting June 2023

    Microbial Competition in Serial Transfer Cultures

  3. Fields Institute August 2022

    Self-Cycling Fermentation With Multiple Nutrients

  4. CAIMS Summer Meeting June 2022

    Self-Cycling Fermentation With Many Possibly Inhibitory Resources

  5. MIDAS Network Annual Meeting May 2021

    Analyzing Rural Community Structure Using Agent-Based Modeling and Topological Data Analysis

  6. CMS Winter Meeting December 2020

    Self-Cycling Fermentation With a Produced Compound

  7. Joint Mathematics Meetings January 2019

    Global Analysis For A Model of Anaerobic Digestion and a New Result For The Chemostat

  8. CMS Winter Meeting December 2017

    Global Analysis For A Model of Anaerobic Digestion

Publications

Published Journal Articles

  • Revisiting The Reinfection Threshold

    Felicia M.G. Magpantay, Jingjing Mao, Siyuan Ren, Sicheng Zhao and Tyler Meadows

    2023 Mathematical Biosciences 363, p 109045

  • Key Factors and Paramter Ranges for Immune Control of Equine Infectous Anemia Virus

    Dylan Hull-Nye, Tyler Meadows, Stacy R. Smith? and Elissa J. Scwhartz

    2023 Viruses 15, 691 (3)

  • A Model of Virus Infection with Immune Responses Supports Boosting CTL Response to Balance Antibody Response

    Tyler Meadows and Elissa J. Scwhartz

    2023 Computational and Mathematical Populations Dynamics, pp. 145– 168

  • Growth on multiple interactive-essential resources in a self-cycling fermentor: An impulsive differential equations approach

    Tyler Meadows and Gail S.K Wolkowicz

    2020 Nonlinear Analalysis: Real World Applications, 56, p. 103157

  • Global analysis of a simplified model of anaerobic digestion and a new result for the chemosta

    Tyler Meadows, Marion Weedermann and Gail S.K. Wolkowicz

    2019 SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 79.2, pp. 668–669

  • Growth on Two Limiting Essential Resources in a Self-Cycling Fermentor

    Ting-Hao Hsu, Tyler Meadows, Lin Wang, and Gail S.K Wolkowicz

    2019 Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering16.1, pp. 78–100

  • Some new aspects of first integrals and symmetries for central force dynamics

    Stephen Anco, Tyler Meadows, and Vincent Pascuzzi

    2016 Journal of Mathematical Physics 57.6, 062901

Submitted Journal Articles

  • Competition in the nutrient-driven self-cycling fermentation process

    Stacy R. Smith?, Tyler Meadows and Gail S.K. Wolkowicz.

    Submitted to Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems

  • An epidemiological model can forecast COVID-19 outbreaks from wastewater surveillance data in rural communities

    Tyler Meadows, Erik R. Coats, Solana Narum, Eva Top, Benjamin J. Ridenhour, and Thibault Stalder

    Submitted to Emerging Infectious Diseases