title: Special issue dedicated to the 70th birthday of Glenn F. Webb. Preface.
abstract: This special issue is dedicated to the 70th birthday of Glenn F. Webb. The topics of the 12 articles appearing in this special issue include evolutionary dynamics of population growth, spatio-temporal dynamics in reaction-diffusion biological models, transmission dynamics of infectious diseases, modeling of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals, analysis of Prion models, age-structured models in ecology and epidemiology, modeling of immune response to infections, modeling of cancer growth, etc. These topics partially represent the broad areas of Glenn's research interest.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413, United States. hinow@uwm.edu.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hinow
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Magal
authors.forename: Shigui
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ruan
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000266:history*; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics / Q000266:history*; D008829:Microbiology / Q000266:history*; D011157:Population Dynamics / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States