DIMACS Working Group on Genetics and Evolution of Pathogens

November 24 - 25, 2003
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Zhilan Feng, Purdue University, zfeng@math.purdue.edu
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology.

Sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the National Science Foundation.

Workshop Program:


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
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