Modeling antibody responses during viral infections
Speaker:
Stanca Ciupe (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Date and Time:
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 - 9:30am to 10:00am
Location:
The Fields Institute
Abstract:
During the course of an individual viral infection, the virus population may consist of a distribution of different variants produced by mutation and selection. Consequently, the immune system attemps to build a response that is broad enough to handle the diversity of virus strains present. We design novel mathematical models of virus-antibody interaction and focus on the roles of cross-reactivity among neutralizing antibodies, viral evolution and the role of non-neutralizing antibodies.