Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS/MBI US-African BioMathematics Initiative.
This Advanced Study Institute and workshop are jointly sponsored by:
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Arrive in Accra, Ghana
Sunday, August 7, 2011
12:00 Lunch in Accra
1:00 - 4:00 Travel by bus to Elimina, Coconut Grove Beach Hotel
Monday, August 8, 2011
9:00 - 9:10 Opening Remarks
Isaac Dontwi, KNUST
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University
9:10 - 9:50 Talk: Molecular diagnosis of pandemic influenza in Ghana
William Ampofo, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
9:50 - 10:30 Talk: TBA
Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University
10:30 - 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 - 11:40 Graduate Student Tutorial: Techniques for analyzing "important to
disease" genetic traits in vectors
Dina Fonseca, Rutgers University
11:40 - 12:20 Graduate Student Tutorial: Epidemiological models
Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University
12:20 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:30 The role of mathematical and computer simulation models in
experimental studies of the population and evolutionary
biology of bacteria
Bruce Levin, Emory University
2:30 - 3:10 Student Talks:
2:30 - 2:50 Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Drug Resistance Management
Strategies for River Blindness
Hugo Turner, Imperial College, London
2:50 - 3:10 Sero-prevalence of Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in
Out-patients attending Sangailu and Ijara Health Centres Kenya
Olivia Lwande, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
3:10 - 3:40 Tea Break
3:40 - 4:20 Talk: TBA
Michael Washington, Centers for Disease Control
4:20 - 5:00 Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Rabies Control
Richard Suu-Ire, Forestry Commission, Wildlife Division, Ghana
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
9:00 - 9:10 Announcements
9:10 - 9:50 Models to Assess the Efficacy and Impact of Genetically
Controlled Mosquitoes
Chuck Taylor, University of California-Los Angeles
9:50 - 10:30 Genetic drive of engineered refractoriness in
disease-vectoring mosquitoes
Alex Perkins, University of California-Davis
10:30 - 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 - 11:40 Talk: The use of genetics for risk analysis in vector borne diseases
Dina Fonseca, Rutgers University
11:40 - 12:20 Optimal treated mosquito bed nets and insecticides for eradication
of Malaria in Missira
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
12:20 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:30 Graduate Student Tutorial: Viral evolution
Siobain Duffy, Rutgers University
2:30 - 3:10 Graduate Student Tutorial: Population genetics, genes and information
Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University
3:10 - 3:40 Tea Break
3:40 - 5:00 Poster Session
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Group Outing to University of Cape Coast
9:00 - 9:15 University of Cape Coast - Introductions
9:15 - 10:00 We are all Africans: Decoding recent human migration
history from Mutations
Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University, Cancer Institute of New Jersey,
Institute for Advanced Study
10:00 - 10:45 Talk: Malaria in irrigated and adjacent non-irrigated villages of Niono in
Mali
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
10:45 - 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 - 11:45 Panel: Next Steps: Future of Mathematical Biology/Mathematics in Africa
Francis Benyah, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University, USA
Isaac Dontwi, KNUST, Ghana
Essel Emmanuel Kwame, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University
Gerard Razafimanatsoa, University of Antananarivo, Madagascar
Jamie Lloyd-Smith, University of California-Los Angeles
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 5:00 Field Trip Outing: Kakum National Park
Thursday, August 11, 2011
9:00 - 9:10 Announcements
9:10 - 9:50 Mathematical modeling of latent TB infection using latency and
dormancy time course gene expression
Gesham Magombedze, University of Cape Town, South Africa
9:50 - 10:30 Student Talks:
9:50 - 10:10 The pharmaco-, population and evolutionary dynamics of
multidrug chemotherapy for tuberculosis: some theoretical and
experimental considerations
Pierre Ankomah, Emory University
10:10 - 10:30 Modeling and analysis the dynamics of the transmission of tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa
Dany Pascal Moualeu, University of Yaounde
10:30 - 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 - 11:40 Graduate Student Tutorial: Introduction to the human innate and adaptive immune response
Gyan Bhanot
11:40 - 12:20 Graduate Student Tutorial: Discussion and Questions
12:20 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:30 The role of evolution in viral host jumps
Jamie Lloyd-Smith, University of California-Los Angeles
2:30 - 3:10 Emergent single-stranded viruses evolve as
quickly as RNA viruses
Siobain Duffy, Rutgers University
3:10 - 3:40 Tea Break
3:40 - 4:20 Student Talks:
3:40 - 4:00 Emerging infectious disease: adaptation and
evolutionary invasion across scales
Miran Hwan Park, University of California-Los Angeles
4:00 - 4:20 Minimum Allele Frequency as a Predictive Tool for Analyzing Clonal Expansions Across Time
Zachary Carpenter, Columbia University
4:20 - 5:00 Epidemiological approach to investigate a proper model to monitor
the spread of the sickle cell heritage in the years in a controlled and
eclouser population (Ankwanda Project)
Eugenio Girelli Bruni, University of Cape coast
Friday, August 12, 2011
9:00 - 9:10 Announcements
9:10 - 9:50 New pandemic influenza
Adolfo García-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
9:50 - 10:30 Talk: HIV drug resistance in Ghana
William Ampofo, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
10:30 - 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 - 11:40 Student Talks:
11:00 - 11:20 Network Analysis of Global Influenza Spread
Joseph Chan, Columbia University
11:20 - 11:40 Birth Seasonality and Infectious Disease in sub-Saharan Africa
Audrey Dorelien, Princeton University
11:40 - 12:20 Evolution and mimicry in influenza and other RNA viruses
Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University
12:20 - 1:50 Lunch
1:50 - 2:30 A contact-waiting time metric for RNA folding
Asamoah Nkwanta, Morgan State University
2:30 - 3:10 Biofilm contributions to antimicrobial pharmacodynamics in vitro
Klas Udekwu, Karolinska Institute
3:10 - 3:40 Tea Break
3:40 - 4:20 Optimal control strategy for controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS
Francis Benyah, University of the Western Cape
4:20 - 5:00 Talk: Mathematical modeling physiological tick life cycle and interaction
with epidemiology
Slimane Ben-Miled, University of Tunis
Saturday, August 13, 2011
One-Day Workshop at University of Ghana
9:00 - 12:00 Travel to University of Ghana, Accra
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Talk: Mathematical models in ecology and epidemiology
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
2:00 - 3:00 Talk: TBA
Nina Fefferman, Rutgers University
3:00 - 4:00 Talk: We are all Africans: Decoding recent human migration history from
Mutations
Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers University
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