Scientific Organisers
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Giulia Belluccini, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Stephen Davis, RMIT University
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Nick Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Grant Lythe, University of Leeds
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Carmen Molina-Paris, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Ruy Ribeiro, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Bevelynn Williams, University of Leeds
About:
Emerging pathogens are of great public health concern. Most human endemic or emerging infectious diseases that have led to epidemics or pandemics were caused by pathogens shared with wild or domestic animals. Species-jump events of a novel pathogen from sylvatic animal reservoirs to humans occur with regularity. The questions driving this workshop are: 1) can we predict when the next zoonotic emergence event will take place, so that we can best be prepared, and 2) what are the best interventions to prevent such an event.
The focussed workshop will be on Monday 8 to Wednesday 10 July and the second part of the event (Research in Groups) will take place on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 July.
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Programme
| MONDAY 08 JULY 2024 | |||
| 09.30 – 09.50 | Registration and refreshments | ||
| 09.50 – 10.00 | Welcome and housekeeping | ||
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Simon Johnstone-Robertson, RMIT University Melbourne (online) | Quantifying the impact of immature tick co-aggregation on tick-borne pathogen spread | |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Stephen Davis, RMIT University Melbourne (online) | Transmission graphs and next-generation matrices for complex tick-borne disease systems | |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Refreshments | ||
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Jonty Carruthers, UK Health Security Agency | Modelling telecoms data to understand human movement patterns | |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Y-Ling Chi, UK Health Security Agency | An introduction to health economics and perspectives for understanding its contributions to pathogen emergence risk | |
| 12.30 – 13.30 | Lunch | ||
| 13.30 – 14.00 | Samantha Lycett, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh | Pathogen phylodynamics, phylogeography and viral fitness in multi-host and multi-strain systems | |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Olivier Restif, University of Cambridge | Modelling bat-virus dynamics for spillover prediction |
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| 14.30 – 15.00 | Refreshments | ||
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Holly Gaff, Old Dominion University | Understanding ticks and tick-borne diseases through agent-based modelling | |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Konstantin Blyuss, University of Sussex | Modelling the interactions between pathogens and the immune system | |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Grant Lythe, University of Leeds | Bursting and budding | |
| 16.30 – 17.30 | Welcome reception, hosted at EFI | ||
| TUESDAY 09 JULY 2024 | |||
| 09.30 – 10.00 | John Barr, University of Leeds | ||
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Catherine Beauchemin, RIKEN | Key challenges in predicting virus reassortment in vitro and a few other things | |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Refreshments | ||
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Maria Diuk-Wasser, Columbia University | Socio-ecological drivers for emergence and opportunities for control of tick-borne diseases in North America | |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Ben Adams, University of Bath | Mathematical models for the community ecology of tick-borne microbes | |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch | ||
| 13.00 – 13.30 | Zati Vatansever & Baris Yildiz, Kafkas University | CCHFV vector ecology | |
| 13.30 – 14.00 | Giulia Belluccini, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Co-feeding, co-infection, co-transmission dynamics of tick-borne viruses | |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Refreshments | ||
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Bevelynn Williams, University of Leeds | Multi-scale modelling of inhalational anthrax | |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Ruy Ribeiro, Los Alamos National Laboratory | A discussion on estimation of effective reproduction number for an emerging infection | |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Nick Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory | ||
| 19.00 | Workshop Dinner, hosted at Blonde Restaurant | 75 St. Leonard’s Street, Edinburgh EH8 7QR | |
| WEDNESDAY 10 JULY 2024 | |||
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Francisco Ruiz-Fons, Spanish Scientific Research Council - Spanish Game & Wildlife Research Institute | Pathogen surveillance in wild vertebrates as a basis for risk modelling of emerging vector-borne diseases | |
| 10.00 – 10.30 | Xander O’Neill & Andy White, Heriot-Watt University | Mathematical models of tick-borne infection: the impact of host density and tick demography | |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Refreshments | ||
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Carmen Molina-Paris, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Tick-borne segmented RNA viruses: mathematical challenges and opportunities | |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Nick Hengartner & Carmen Molina-Paris, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Discussion and concluding remarks |
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| 12.00 | Lunch and end of workshop |