On the principle of host evolution in host-pathogen interactions We use a two-host one pathogen immuno-epidemiological model to argue that the principle for host evolution, when the host is subjected to a fatal disease, is minimization of the case fatality proportion F. This principle is valid whether the disease is chronic or leads to recovery. In
The schedule of the Fifth Annual QSE3 IGERT Symposium can be found here: 5th Annual Symposium Schedule This year we have four invited talks by distinguished professors. Wayne Getz Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California Berkeley “A Computational Population Modeling Platform for Linking the Inner and Outer Worlds of Organisms” David
Spatial and Temporal Spread of Disease in Discrete Space The SARS epidemic of 2003 and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic illustrated the capacity of infectious pathogens to spread quickly over vast distances. However, rapid dissemination is not the only spatial and temporal aspect in disease propagation. In today’s globalized world, public health systems of different qualities come
