DIMACS Workshop on The Epidemiology and Evolution of Influenza
January 25 - 27, 2006
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
- Organizers:
- Catherine Macken, Los Alamos National Labs, cam@t10.lanl.gov
- Alan Perelson, Los Alamos National Labs, asp@lanl.gov
Presented under the auspices of the
Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology.
Workshop Program:
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and opening remarks
Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
9:15 - 10:30 Reassortment
Richard Webby, University of Tennessee
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:15 Modelling pandemic influenza in US
Tim Germann, LANL
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:00 Greg Armstrong, CDC
2:00 - 2:45 Modeling influenza in Los Angeles and Portland
Sara del Valle, LANL
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00 Using contact network models to compare influenza vaccination programs
Lauren Meyers, University of Texas
4:00 - 5:00 How big will an epidemic be?
Peter Dodds, Columbia University
7:00 Dinner at the Holiday Inn
Thursday, January 26, 2006
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 Mechanisms of T cell mediated heterosubtype specific
protection against influenza virus
David Topham, University of Rochester
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Cross Protection Models
Viggo Andreasson, Roskilde University, Denmark
11:45 - 12:30 TBA
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 Modeling national influenza infection patterns with H3N2 since 1968
Jim Koopman, University of Michigan
2:15 - 3:00 Antigenic Drift in Single Season of Influenza
Maciej Boni, Stanford
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30 Preparing for the Next Influenza Pandemic: Estimates of
Transmissibility and the Consequences of Multiple Introductions
Christina Mills, Harvard University
Friday, January 27, 2006
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 Re-visiting 1968 pandemic and a strangely severe 1951 epidemic
Cecile Viboud, NIH/NIAID
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 Re-visiting the mortality of the 1918 and 1957 pandemics
Lone Simonsen, NIH/NIAID
12:00 - 12:30 Novel Data Sources for EPI Modeling
Donald Olson, New York City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene
12:30 - 1:00 Modeling of seasonal baseline in respiratory syndrome
data using hidden markov models
Al Ozonoff, Boston University School of Public Health
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 End of Workshop
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