Sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the National Science Foundation.
Monday, November 24, 2003 9:00 - 9:45 Breakfast and Registration 9:45 - 10:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director 10:00 - 11:00 Annual epidemics and natural selection in host-pathogen systems Viggo Andreasen, Roskilde University, Denmark 11:00 - 12:00 The overlooked implications of density dependence in evolutionary epidemiology Ulf Dieckmann, The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Detecting strong selection using a single genome sequence: applications to the evolutionary dynamics of pathogens Joshua Plotkin, Harvard University 2:30 - 3:30 Evolutionary and ecological dynamics of host-pathogen interactions Alison Galvani, UC Berkeley 3:30 - 4:00 Break 4:00 - 5:00 On the interplay of community ecology and evolution in emerging diseases Robert Holt, University of Florida 5:00 - 6:00 An endemic model with variable re-infection rate and application to influenza Horst Thieme, Arizona State University 6:00 Dinner Tuesday, November 25, 2003 8:45 - 9:30 Breakfast and Registration 9:30 - 10:30 Codon usage and patterns of selection in pathogens Jonathan Dushoff, Princeton University 10:30 - 12:00 Group Discussion 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:00 Interaction between ecology and evolution facilitates emergence of infectious diseases Roland Regoes, Emory University 3:00 - 4:00 Antibiotic resistance in nosocomial pathogens David Smith, Fogarty International Center, NIH 4:00 - 5:00 Dynamics and genealogy of strains in spatially extended host-pathogen models Erik Rauch, MIT