John Nardini is in the SAMSI PMED program. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where his dissertation was on mathematical models of epidermal wound healing. He is interested in the derivation and analysis of partial differential equation models of biological phenomena, as well as inverse problems to fit these models to experimental data. While at SAMSI, he will be working with Professors Kevin Flores from NC State and Greg Forest from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.