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New Online Free Course Launches for Malaria Genetics
We are excited to announce From Data to Insight – A Practical Introduction to Interpreting Malaria Genetics for Surveillance, a free, self-paced online course offered by PlasmoGenEpi.
ID modeling seminar -alternates Berkeley/ UCSF
Join researchers from Bekeley, the EPPIcenter and Proctor in lively discussions centered around modeling infectious disease. This small group meets monthly, and welcomes serious participants.
Feb 11 Luis Esquivel Gomez and Paula Weidemüller from the EPPIcenter @ UCSF will present
March 19: Researchers from the Seth Blumberg's group @ Proctor (UCSF) will present
EPPIcenter Seminar: Courtney Murdock - The Role of the Environment in Vector-borne Disease Transmission
A main driver of vector-borne disease transmission is the ecology of the insect vector. Changes in climate and land use alter ecological relationships insect vectors have with their hosts and pathogens, resulting in shifts in transmission. The research in the Murdock lab applies ecological and evolutionary theory to better understand the host-vector-pathogen interaction, key environmental drivers of transmission, and how environmental change will affect vector-borne disease transmission and control.
EPPIcenter Seminar: Jessica Metcalf- Open configuration options Infection dynamics and vaccination in a changing world: from climate drivers to immunity
Jessica Metcalf is a demographer with broad interests in evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics and public policy. She works on questions ranging from how changing human demography might change infectious disease incidence and spread; to what drives dynamics of rubella and other childhood infections through space and time; and how these various patterns intersect with vaccine deployment. .
ID modeling seminar
Join researchers from Bekeley, the EPPIcenter and Proctor in lively discussions centered around modeling infectious disease. This small group meets monthly, and welcomes serious participants.
Feb 11 Luis Esquivel Gomez and Paula Weidemüller from the EPPIcenter @ UCSF will present
EPPIcenter seminar: Andrea Graham- Evolution of Host /Parasite interactions- cytokines, antibodies, and selection pressure.
Andrea Graham is an evolutionary ecologist with strong interests in the processes that drive heterogeneity in hosts, parasites, and diseases. Her lab aims to understand how natural selection has shaped strategies for both host defense and parasite transmission. We are especially interested in discovering why hosts are so heterogeneous in immune responsiveness. Their laboratory methods will be familiar to immunologists, but their questions and quantitative methods are drawn from evolutionary ecology.