Room 2: Ecology & Epidemiology of Human Diseases

Monday, June 14, 2021

Sophie Belman
Elucidating the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Streptococcus pneumoniae in South Africa
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Thomas Beneteau
Episome partitioning and symmetric cell divisions: quantifying the role of random events in the persistence of HPV infections
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Yassine Benserida
Bio-monitoring and characterization of culicidogenic deposits of the Algerian west coast
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Michael Briga
The seasonality of three childhood infections in a pre-school term society
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Tenley Brownwright
Varying Age-Space Dynamics of 3 Pathogens in Nigeria
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Marissa Childs
Small-scale gold mining increases malaria risk in the Brazilian Amazon
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Dominika Dec Peevey
Estimating Epidemic Size Using Predictive Models
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Caroline Glidden
Ecological levers of Visceral Leishmaniasis: Synthesis of current data and forward prediction of risk
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Deven Gokhale
Elucidating Mechanisms of Mumps resurgence using transmission models
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Christoph Grunau
Epigenetic engineering of Schistosoma vector snails
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Christian Gunning
Longitudinal qPCR-based pertussis surveillance reveals widespread asymptomatic infection
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Andreas Handel
User-friendly software to learn infectious disease modeling on the population and individual host levels
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Maryam Hayati
Predicting successful strains for the seasonal influenza vaccine using topological properties of the influenza tree and machine learning tools
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Juliana Hoyos
Implementation of HSP70-sequencing for species identification within the Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis complex, using field samples from endemic areas of Colombia
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Raina Jia
Characterising the intrahost haplotype diversity of dengue virus
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Aaron King
Unified Approach to Phylodynamic Inference
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Rodrigo M. Corder
Quantifying the contribution of low-density and asymptomatic infections to Plasmodium vivax transmission in the Amazon
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Ailene MacPherson
Unifying Birth-Death Phylodynamic Models
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Ellie Mainou
Investigating model alternatives for acute HIV infection
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Brian McKay
Virulence-mediated infectiousness and activity trade-offs and their impact on transmission potential of influenza patients
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Angela McLaughlin
Fundamental identifiability limits of phylodynamic birth-death models
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Navideh Noori
Impacts of Mass Nutritional Supplementation on Dynamics of Measles: A Simulation Study
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Thursday, June 17, 2021

Kelsey Shaw
Resource competition alters the population size structure of Biomphalaria glabrata: Implications for control of human schistosomiasis
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Eloise Skinner
Integrating physiological competence and ecology to determine host and vector importance for vector-borne pathogens
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Nicolas Tessandier
Immune response of non-persistent HPV infections
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Ilkay Basak Uysal
Comparison of methods for the identification of plasmids in the Human Vaginal Microbiome
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Keita Wagatsuma
Shifts in the epidemic season of human respiratory syncytial virus associated with inbound overseas travelers and meteorological conditions in Japan
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Lin Wang
The role of antigenic and genetic diversity in driving the transmission and disease risk of dengue virus (DENV)
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Tyler Washburn
Are common misperceptions of EEID based on biases of where EEID studies are published?
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Siyang Xia
Assessing the effects of measles infection on childhood infectious disease mortality in Brazil and early US
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