Conference on the Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Disease
Description
The study of pathogen evolution is central to our understanding of infectious disease biology. Pathogen evolution underlies a wide range of phenomena, including host switching, antimicrobial resistance, and pathogen adaptation during chronic infection. The modelling of pathogen evolution, as well as the analysis of high-throughput genetic data relevant to pathogen evolution, fall squarely in the domain of population and evolutionary genetics, branches of mathematical biology that are concerned with the behaviour of genetic variants within and between populations. This conference will bring together scientists working at the interface between evolutionary genetics and infectious disease. The focus of the meeting will be mathematical and statistical approaches to understanding disease evolution.
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For more information, please contact Alex Wong at alex.wong@carleton.ca
Schedule
| 09:15 to 09:20 |
Introduction
Alex Wong, Carleton University |
| 09:20 to 10:20 |
Influenza evolution in-host: how different is the flu you transmit from the flu you received?
Lindi Wahl, Western University |
| 10:20 to 10:40 |
The effects of local interactions on growth rate and dispersal adaptation in experimental populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens
Susan Bailey, Clarkson University |
| 10:40 to 11:00 |
Coffee break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
The genomic basis of drug resistance and virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans
Lindi Wahl, Western University |
| 12:00 to 12:20 |
The genomic basis of drug resistance and virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans
Aleeza Gerstein, University of Manitoba |
| 12:20 to 13:00 |
Lunch
|
| 13:00 to 14:00 |
Mutation-selection substitution models for detecting adaptation in protein-coding genes
Nicolas Rodrigue, Carleton University |
| 14:00 to 14:20 |
Ana Duggan, McMaster University |
| 14:20 to 14:40 |
Thomas Bujaki, Carleton University |
| 14:40 to 15:00 |
Coffee break
|
| 15:00 to 16:00 |
Lumping, splitting, and the challenge of WGS-based subtyping: implications for infectious disease epidemiology
Eduardo Taboada, Public Health Agency of Canada |
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
The population genetics of Old World monkeys - a model for biomedical research
Susanne Pfeifer, Arizona State University |
| 18:30 |
Dinner
|
| 09:20 to 10:20 |
A consideration of viral population genetics
Jeffrey Jensen, Arizona State University |
| 10:20 to 10:40 |
Predicting the fate of antibiotic resistance mutations: impact of genotype and environment
Aaron Hinz, Carleton University |
| 10:40 to 11:00 |
Coffee break
|
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Unsupervised excursions into the deep evolutionary history of HIV-1 group M
Art Poon, Western University |
| 12:00 to 12:20 |
Ana Morales, Arizona State University |
| 12:20 to 13:00 |
Lunch
|
| 13:00 to 13:20 |
Marcus Dillon, University of Toronto |
| 13:20 to 14:30 |
Modeling disease life history evolution
Nicole Mideo, University of Toronto |
