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Nakul Chitnis (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute)

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Mathematical modelling of the transmission dynamics of opisthrochiasis The trematode liver fluke (flat worm), Opisthorchis viverrini, is prevalent in southeast Asia, causing the chronic hepatobiliary disease, opisthorchiasis. Long term infection can lead to the bile duct cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, which is typically fatal. We develop an ordinary differential equation (ODE) model of the transmission dynamics of …

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Hannah Anderson (UF Mathematics)

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The effect of myeloid-derived suppressor cells on glioblastoma-immune dynamics Despite improvements in cancer therapies, the current standard of care for glioblastoma (GBM) only confers a 5.1% five-year survival rate. A major reason for this poor prognosis is the brain cancer’s highly complex and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, thus pointing researchers to novel immunotherapies. This talk seeks …

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Yang Yang (UF Biostatistics)

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Statistical Adjustment for Reporting Bias in Surveillance Data of Infectious Diseases Reporting bias is common in the surveillance of infectious diseases and takes different forms. A typical example is that outbreaks are investigated only if the number of cases exceeds a prespecified threshold. Another example is that most outbreak investigations only survey cases, ignoring individuals …

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Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology 4th Annual Symposium

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Join us for a lively exploration of the math-bio interface The Symposium will host daily panel discussion about important issues in math-bio research and traineeship. How can we productively embed ourselves in a second discipline? What paths have led to successful math-bio careers in academia? In industry? Support the next generation of math-bio researchers Following …

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Hayriye Gulbudak (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Mathematics)

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Modeling across-scale feedbacks of infectious diseases A current challenge for disease modeling and public health is to understand pathogen dynamics across infection scales from within-host to between-host. Viral and immune response kinetics upon infection impact transmission to other hosts and feedback into population-wide immunity, all of which influence the severity, trajectory, and evolution of a …

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Hemaho B. Taboe (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin, Biostatistics)

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Quantifying the effects of vaccines and a booster vaccine dose on the dynamics of COVID-19 in the United States The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on health systems and economies across the globe, with the USA among the worse impacted nations. Implementing public health measures in tandem with effective …

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Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem (Lehigh University, Mathematics)

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Using Mathematics to Unravel Mosquito Behavioral Dynamics that Capacitates Malaria Parasite Success in a Human-Mosquito Built Environment Many bottlenecks can hamper a successful malaria parasite transmission from one human to another. For example, a successful transmission of the parasite from humans to mosquitoes and back to humans requires that a susceptible feeding female mosquito successfully …

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Shasha Gao (UF Mathematics)

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The impact of vaccination on human papillomavirus infection with disassortative geographical mixing Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection can spread between regions. What is the impact of disassortative geographical mixing on the dynamics of HPV transmission? Vaccination is effective in preventing HPV infection. How to allocate HPV vaccines between genders within each region and between regions to …

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Julie A. Spencer (Los Alamos National Lab)

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What is Influenza-Like Illness? Influenza-like illness (ILI) is a not a single disease, but is a large group of pathogens grouped together because they have similar symptoms. In the United States, ILI affects an estimated 9-49 million people every year. The CDC defines the presence ILI as a fever of at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit, …

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Zhilan Feng (Purdue University, Mathematics and NSF DMS Program Director)

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Mathematical models of infectious diseases -- Consequences of underlying assumptions Mathematical models have been used to study various disease transmission dynamics and control for epidemics. Many of these studies are based on SEIR- types of compartmental models with exponentially distributed stage durations. We examine the underlying assumptions made in some of these models and present …

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