Statistical and Mathematical Modeling in Biological Applications

The seminar series Statistical and Mathematical Modeling in Biological Applications (SaMMBA) features monthly lectures and discussions with leading modelers in biological sciences. Presentations are in English or French and target an interdisciplinary audience. Seminars are held on the campus of Institut Pasteur. Access is free. However, to enter the campus, one needs a badge that is obtained at the main gate in exchange of a piece of ID (passport, citizen card or driver licence).
 
For additional information about the series contact the organizers: Pierre-Yves BöelleRomulus BrebanVittoria Colizza, Judith LegrandVirginie SupervieLaura Temime and Elisabeta Vergu. To arrange to meet with an invited speaker, contact the host of that speaker. 
 

Next Lecture

 

Mercedes PASCUAL

Climate forcing and the population dynamics of infectious diseases in changing human landscapes

Abstract: Among infectious diseases, water-borne and vector-borne infections are those potentially most susceptible to climate forcing because of the environmental nature of their transmission routes. This talk presents two case studies on the influence of climate variability on such diseases, the first one on cholera in Bangladesh, and the second one on desert malaria in northwest India.  Results illustrate the clear role played by climate variability as a major driver of the population dynamics of both diseases, while also underscoring the increasing need to understand this role in the context of changing human ‘landscapes’.  For cholera, the influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and flooding is examined in the megacity of Dhaka.  For desert malaria in India, the influence of rainfall is considered together with how this influence is modified by irrigation-based development.  Evidence is presented for a complex interaction between intervention levels and climate forcing in a long-lasting transition between rainfall-driven epidemics and sustainable elimination.

Contact: Laura TEMIME

Tue, May 14th, 2013
  12 noon -1 pm 
Room Jean-Paul Aubert

Full Schedule 2012-2013

 

Aslam ANIS

Cost-effectiveness of diacetylmorphine versus methadone for chronic opioid dependence refractory to treatment

Abstract

Wed, Sep 12th, 2012 
  12 noon -1 pm 

Virginie SUPERVIE

Epidémie cachée du VIH : Que peut-on apprendre des modèles
mathématiques ?

Abstract

Tue, Oct 16th, 2012 
  12 noon -1 pm 

Olivier TENAILLON

Adaptive constraints at the genomic and genic level in E. coli 

Abstract

Tue, Nov 6th, 2012 
  12 noon -1 pm 

Lulla OPATOWSKI 

Trends of pneumococcal meningitis: unmasking the role of winter viruses and antimicrobial drugs 

Abstract 

Tue, Dec 11th, 2012 
  12 noon -1 pm 
Room Jean-Paul Aubert

Rodolphe 
THIEBAUT

On the use of mechanistic models for HIV clinical trials 

Abstract

Tue, Jan 8th, 2013 
  12 noon -1 pm 
Room Jean-Paul Aubert

Denis MESTIVIER

Modélisation des systèmes biologiques

Abstract

Tue, Feb 5th, 2013
  12 noon -1 pm 
Room Jean-Paul Aubert

Michael HOEHLE

Challenges for statistical modelling during the STEC/HUS outbreak in Germany, 2011 

 Abstract 

Tue, Mar 5th, 2013
  12 noon -1 pm
Room Jean-Paul Aubert  

Steven GOODREAU

HIV Transmission among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in the United States and Peru: Insights from Dynamic Demographic Network Models

 Abstract

Tue, Apr 9th, 2013
  12 noon -1 pm
Room Jean-Paul Aubert 

Mercedes PASCUAL

Climate forcing and the population dynamics of infectious diseases in changing human landscapes 

 Abstract

Tue, May 14th, 2013
  12 noon -1 pm 
Room Jean-Paul Aubert 

Chris BAUCH

Vaccine scares and the interplay between disease dynamics and strategic individual vaccinating choices  

 

Tue, Jun 11th, 2013
  12 noon -1 pm 
Room Jean-Paul Aubert