Curriculum Vitae
Joseph P. McKenna

Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH
Building 12A, Room 4003
12 South Dr. MSC 5621
Bethesda, MD 20892-5621
email: joseph.mckenna@nih.gov
web: https://joepatmckenna.github.io

• E. Kim, R. Schenck, J. West, W. Cross, V. Harris, J. McKenna, H. Cho, E. Coker, S. Lee-Kramer, K. Tsai, E. Flores, C. D. Gatenbee, Targeting the untargetable: predicting Pramlintide resistance using a neural network based cellular automata, bioRxiv, 2017, 10.1101/211383
  
• J. P. McKenna, R. Dhumpa, N Mukhitov, M. G. Roper, and R. Bertram, Glucose oscillations can activate an endogenous oscillator in pancreatic islets, PLOS Computational Biology, Vol 12(10), 2016, pp e1005143, 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005143
  
• J. P. McKenna, J. Ha, M. J. Merrins, L. S. Satin, A. Sherman, and R. Bertram, Calcium effects on ATP production and consumption have regulatory roles on oscillatory islet activity, Biophysical Journal, Vol 110, Feb 2016, pp 733-742, 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.11.3526
  
• M. J. Merrins, C. Poudel, J. P. McKenna, J. Ha, A. Sherman, R. Bertram, and L. S. Satin, Phase analysis of metabolic oscillations and membrane potential in pancreatic islet β-cells, Biophysical Journal, Vol 110, Feb 2016, pp 691-699, 10.1016/j.bpj.2015.12.029
  
• J. P. McKenna, correct solution to More and more balls in urns in American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 118(8), Oct 2011, pp 750-751, 10.4169/amer.math.monthly.118.08.747
  
• J. P. McKenna, correct solution to Permutations with specified left-to-right maxima in Mathematics Magazine, Vol 84(2), Apr 2011, pp 153-154, 10.4169/math.mag.84.2.150
  
• J. P. McKenna, correct solution to Counting block fountains of coins in Mathematics Magazine, Vol 83(4), Oct 2010, pp 305, 10.4169/mathmaga.83.4.0304a
  

• 5/17: Invited minisymposium talk, State and parameter estimation in models of cellular electrical activity, SIAM Conference on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT
  
• 3/17: Invited minisymposium talk, Recent advances in experimentally-guided mathematical biology, SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, Tallahassee, FL
  
• 3/17: Contributed poster, Dynamic neuron networks with Fitzhugh-Nagumo nodes, SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, Tallahassee, FL
  
• 2/17: Contributed poster, Markov chain Monte Carlo optimization for fitting excitable cell current-voltage relations to voltage clamp data, SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Atlanta, GA
  
• 11/16: Invited workshop participant, Integrated mathematical oncology 6^th annual workshop: resistance, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL
  
• 10/16: Invited workshop participant, Dynamical systems and data analysis in neuroscience: bridging the gap, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus, OH
  
• 7/16: Invited minisymposium talk, Modeling insulin and glucagon secretion and their roles in diabetes, SIAM Annual Conference, Boston, MA
  
• 5/16: Contributed poster, Reducing a conductance-based neuron model to normal form, Biology and Medicine through Mathematics Conference, Richmond, VA
  
• 7/15: Invited minisymposium talk, Modeling pancreatic islets and diabetes from the cellular level to the whole body, Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
  
• 05/15: Contributed poster, Rescuing the Dual Oscillator Model for β-cells from inconvenient data, Midwest Islet Club Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
  
• 8/14: Invited poster, Mathematical model of metabolic oscillations in pancreatic β-cells, NIH Summer Intern Poster Session, Bethesda, MD
  

• Programming: C, C++, Fortran, Python, MATLAB, UNIX, Java, HTML, Javascript, CSS, \(\textstyle{\LaTeX}\), XPP, AUTO
  
• Language: English (native), French (intermediate), Twi (intermediate)
  

• 4/16: Distinguished teaching assistant, Florida State University Mathematics
  
• 4/16: Graduate student poster contest 3^rd place, Florida State University Mathematics
  
• 3/16: Travel award, SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
  

• 7/13 - 5/14: Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellow, U.S. Department of Education
  
• 12/05 & 5/08: Dean's List, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  
• 9/04 - 5/08: Presidential Scholarship, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  
• 6/04: Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America
  

• 12/14: Society for Mathematical Biology
  
• 12/13: Pi Mu Epsilon National Honorary Mathematical Society
  
• 9/13: Program for Instructional Excellence, Florida State University
  
• 4/13: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  
• 6/08: Mathematical Association of America