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

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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