DIMACS Workshop on Evolutionary Considerations in Vaccine Use

June 27 - 29, 2005
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:
Troy Day, Queen's University, Canada, tday@mast.queensu.ca
Alison Galvani, Yale University, alison.galvani@yale.edu
Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba, Canada, gumelab@cc.umanitoba.ca
Claudio Struchiner, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil, stru@malaria.procc.fiocruz.br
Presented under the auspices of the of the Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology.

This workshop is an offshoot of the DIMACS Working Group on Methodologies for Comparing Vaccination Strategies.

Workshop Program:

Monday, June 27, 2005
 8:00 -  8:30  Breakfast and Registration

 8:30 -  9:00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

               Objectives of the workshop: Vaccination and Evolution
               Troy Day, Workshop Organizer

 9:00 -  9:50  Predicting Human Papilloma Virus prevalence and vaccine
               policy effectiveness in demographic strata
               Courtney Corley, University of North Texas

10:00 - 10:50  The evolution of HIV-1 virulence
               Christophe Fraser, Imperial College, UK

11:00 - 11:50  Predicting The Potential Individual-level and Population-level 
               Effects of Imperfect HSV-2 Vaccines
               Elissa Schwartz, UCLA

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch

 1:00 -  1:50  HIV vaccines: current issues, progress and challenges
               Walter Strauss, Merck Inc.

 2:00 -  2:50  Determination of optimal vaccination strategies using game theory
               Eduardo Massad, University of Sao Paulo 

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:20  Mathematical models of the evolution and spread of infections
               Angela Mclean, Oxford University

 4:30 -  5:30  Group Discussion
	
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

 8:00 -  8:30  Breakfast and Registration

 8:30 -  9:20  Virulence evolution in malaria parasites - data and theory
               Margaret J. MacKinnon, University of Edingburgh
 
 9:30 - 10:20  Imperfect vaccines, within-host dynamics and parasite evolution
               Sylvain Gandon, CNRS, Montpellier

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:50  The impact of vaccination on the evolution of Marek's disease and malaria
               Andrew Read, University of Edinburgh

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch

 1:00 -  1:50  Game theory of vaccination against infectious diseases 
               Tim Reluga, Yale University 

 2:00 -  2:50  A multi-type human papillomavirus vaccination model with antagonism and synergism
               Elamin Elbasha, Merck Inc., USA 

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  4:20  Phylodynamics of acute microparasites and the impact of vaccination
               Bryan Grenfell, Penn State 

 4:30 -  5:30  Group Discussion
	
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
 
 8:00 -  8:30  Breakfast and Registration

 8:30 -  9:20  Influenza antigenic drift in vaccinated populations 
               Maciek Boni, Stanford University

 9:30 - 10:20  The genetic drift of influenza A 
               Sido Mylius, RIVM, the Netherlands

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 11:50  Vaccinating against influenza
               Jonathan Dushoff, Princeton University

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch

 1:00 -  1:50  The optimal amount of antiviral control
               Michiel van Boven, Wageningen University and Research Centre

 2:00 -  2:50  The reinfection threshold and its consequences for vaccination
               Gabriela Gomes, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal

 3:00 -  5:00  Concluding Remarks
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