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

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

Presentation Slides:

• Maciek Boni, Stanford University
  What Drives Antigenic Drift in a Single Influenza Season?

• Courtney Corley, University of North Texas
  Predicting Human Papilloma Virus Prevalence and Vaccine Policy Effectiveness

• Jonathan Dushoff, Princeton University
  Vaccinating against Influenza A

• Sylvain Gandon, CNRS, Montpellier
  Imperfect vaccines, within-host dynamics & parasite evolution

• Sido Mylius, and Jacco Wallinga, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, (RIVM), the Netherlands
  Sander van Noort, and Odo Diekmann, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  Antigenic Drift of Influenza A

• Michiel van Boven, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Frits Mooi, Hester de Melker, Joop Schellekens & Mirjam Kretzschmar, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, (RIVM), the Netherlands
  Pathogen adaptation under imperfect vaccination: implications for pertussis

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