Van Savage

Professor

email: vsavage@ucla.edu
phone: 66692
office: 510F Boyer Hall

Recent Courses

BIOENGR CM186 | C&S BIO M186 | COM SCI CM186 | EE BIOL M178 - Computational Systems Biology: Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems
BIOENGR CM186 (1B) | BIOENGR CM286 (1B) | C&S BIO M186 (1B) | COM SCI CM186 (1B) | COM SCI CM286 (1B) | EE BIOL M178 (1B) - Computational Systems Biology: Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems
BIOMATH 200 - Research Frontiers in Biomathematics

Research Interests

Selected Publications

C. Kempes and V.M. Savage, "When science hits a limit, learn to ask different questions", Aeon, - (2018) [link].

J.N. Pruitt, A. Berdahl, C. Riehl, N. Pinter-Wollman, H.V. Moeller, E.G. Pringle, L.M. Aplin, E.J.H. Robinson, J. Grilli, P. Yeh, V.M. Savage, M.H. Price, J. Garland, I.C. Gilby, M.C. Crofoot, G.N. Doering, E.A. Hobson, "Social tipping points in animal societies", Aeon, 285 (1887): 20181282- (2018) .

E. Tekin*, P. Yeh, and V.M. Savage, "General form for interaction measures and framework for deriving higher-order emergent effects", Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6 : 166- (2018) .

M. Cruz-Loya*, T. Kang, N. Lozano, R. Watanabe, E. Tekin*, R. Damoiseaux, V.M. Savage, and P. Yeh, "Stressor interaction networks suggest antibiotic resistance co-opted from stress responses to temperature", The ISME Journal, 6 : - (2018) [link].

E. Tekin*, C. White, T. Kang, N. Singh, M. Cruz-Loya, R. Damoiseaux, V.M. Savage,
and P. Yeh, "Prevalence and patterns of higher-order drug interactions in Escherichia coli", npj Nature Systems Biology and Applications, 4 (31): - (2018) .

L. Lee*, V.M. Savage, and P. Yeh, "Intermediate levels of antibiotics may increase diversity of colony size phenotype in bacteria", Computational and Structural Biotechnology, 16 : 307-315 (2018) .

V.M. Savage, "An overconfident public learns the limits of predictive technology", Zocalo Public Square, 16 : - (2017) [link].

S.S. Chang, S. Tu, KI. Naek, A. Pietersen, Y.H. Liu, V.M. Savage, S.P.L. Hwang, T.K. Hsiai, and M. Roper, "An overconfident public learns the limits of predictive technology", Optimal occlusion uniformly partitions red blood cells fluxes within a microvascular network, PLoS Computational Biology 13 (12): - (2017) .

B.J. Enquist, L.P. Bentley, A. Shnekin, B. Maitner, V.M. Savage, S. Michaeltz, B. Blonder, V. Buzzard, T.E.B. Espinoza, W. Farfan-Rios, C. Doughty, G.R. Goldsmith, R.E. Martin, N. Salinas, M. Silman, S. Diaz, G.P. Asner, and Y. Malhi, "Assessing trait-based scaling theory in tropical forests spanning a broad temperature gradient", Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26 (12): - (2017) [link].

E. Tekin*, V.M. Savage, and P. Yeh, "Measuring higher-order drug interactions: A review of recent approaches", Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 4 : 16-23 (2017) .