calendarInvited workshop: Morbilliviruses
Subject: Spread of pathogens of social animals, with particular reference to the morbilliviruses
When: November 11-12, 2005
Where: 510 Mueller Lab, University Park (map)
Contact: Laura Pomeroy
Objectives
Participants at this invited workshop will:
- Discuss how host social structures and interspecific exposure affects spread, persistence and evolution of specialization in the morbilliviruses (measles, phocine distemper, canine distemper, rindepest)
- Compare different theoretical approaches to modeling viral dynamics, and host social / spatial structures
- Identify useful directions for future collaborative research
Agenda
Friday November 11
Biology and spatial patterns of morbilliviruses
- 09:00 Welcome & overview (Bryan Grenfell and Ottar Bjørnstad)
- 09:15 CDV in the Serengeti (Craig Packer)
- 09:45 Descriptive epidemiology of the PDV outbreak in the Netherlands (Jolianne Rijks)
- 10:15 PDV in Gray and Harbor Seals (Catriona Stephenson)
Theory and models
- 11:00 Perspectives, synthesis and introduction to the gravity model (Cecile Viboud, Matt Ferrari)
- 13:30 Percolation approaches to characterizing the epidemiological evolution of a network (Lauren Meyers)
- 14:00 Patterns of animal sociality impact disease spread (Jamie Lloyd-Smith)
- 14:30 Measles and demography (Andrew Conlan)
- 15:30 Perspectives and synthesis: relating biological patterns and theory (Petra Klepac, Shweta Bansal, Sarah Perkins)
Saturday November 12
Phylogeny, evolution and specialization
- 09:00 Evolution of morbilliviruses (Laura Pomeroy)
- 09:30 Immunology and phyolgeny: veterinary perspective with respect to Caspian Seals (Thijs Kuiken)
- 10:00 Evolution of host immunogenetics with recurrent epidemics (Karin Harding)
- 11:00 Perspectives and synthesis ( Meggan Craft, John Drake, Eleca Dunham)
General discussion and future directions (13:30 John Harwood, Peter Hudson, Eric Harvill, Réka Albert, Eddie Holmes)