Theme Weeks on Emergence and Spread of Drug Resistance
Description
This two week block will open the thematic program, and will focus on introducing the mathematics of drug resistance, highlighting current modeling challenges and unresolved issues
Schedule
| 09:30 to 12:00 | 
           Long-term Program researchers check in with Fields Members Liaison Room 330 at Fields 
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| 12:00 to 13:00 | 
           Registration on-site 
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| 13:00 to 14:30 | 
          
           Marc Lipsitch           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 15:00 to 15:30 | 
           Antiviral resistance and influenza 
          Alison McGeer           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 17:00 to 18:00 | 
           Opening Reception 
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| 09:30 to 10:00 | 
           Evolutionary epidemiology of drug-resistance in space 
          Sylvain Gandon           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 10:00 to 10:30 | 
           Facile Solutions for a [Clostridium] difficile Problem 
          Nick Daneman           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 10:30 to 11:00 | 
           Break 
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| 11:00 to 11:30 | 
           TBA 
          Erika D'Agata           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 11:30 to 12:00 | 
           Linear models of antibiotic cycling 
          Tim Reluga           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 12:00 to 13:30 | 
           Lunch 
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| 13:30 to 14:00 | 
           Antibiotic cycling 
          Rob Beardmore           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 14:00 to 14:30 | 
           The in-host ecology of drug resistance 
          Andrew Read           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 14:30 to 15:30 | 
           Modeling Transmission Dynamics of Antibiotic- Resistant Bacteria in Hospitals 
          Shigui Ruan, University of Miami           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 09:30 to 10:00 | 
           The Dark at the End of the Tunnel: The Looming Threat of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis 
          Fran Jamieson           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 10:00 to 10:30 | 
           Antimicrobial Stewardship: Current Concepts and Controversies 
          Andrew Morris           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 10:30 to 11:00 | 
           Break 
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| 11:00 to 11:30 | 
           Transmission Dynamics of Drug-resistant Strains Driven by Treatment 
          Chris Bowman           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 11:30 to 12:00 | 
           Optimal antiviral treatment strategies and the effects of resistance 
          Elsa Hansen           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 12:00 to 13:30 | 
           Lunch 
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| 13:30 to 14:00 | 
           Within-Host Dynamics of Influenza Drug-Resistance 
          Seyed Moghadas, York University           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 14:00 to 14:30 | 
           A modified Ross-MacDonald model with latency for malaria dynamics 
          Yanyu Xiao           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 14:30 to 15:00 | 
           Disease emergence in populations with heterogeneous immunocompetence 
          James Lloyd-Smith           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 09:30 to 12:00 | 
           Teaching Session- e.g., Introduction to estimation of R0; A Simple Model of Antimicrobial Resistance, etc 
                    Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 13:30 to 16:00 | 
           Teaching Session- e.g., Introduction to estimation of R0; A Simple Model of Antimicrobial Resistance, etc 
                    Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 09:30 to 10:30 | 
           Focused Discussion 
                    Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 10:30 to 11:00 | 
           Break 
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| 11:00 to 12:00 | 
           Focused Discussion 
                    Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 10:00 to 10:45 | 
           Antibiotic Resistance in Gonorrhea, Chlamydia and Syphilis: Are we chasing our tail? 
          Vanessa Gray Allen           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 13:00 to 13:45 | 
           Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus 
          Kevin Katz           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      
| 10:00 | 
           Transboundary problems in infectious diseases 
          Ram Laxminarayan           Location:The Fields Institute          | 
      

