Working Group leader: Dan Weinreich
Group members: Tanya Miura, Andreas Vasdekis, Brenda Rubenstein, Craig Miller, David Morgan, Jagdish Patel, JT VanLeuven, Jonathan Barnes, Kyle Martin, Marty Ytreberg, Paul Rowley
Originated: November, 2018
Description:
This working group is interested in empirical and theoretical approaches for understanding epistasis and its evolutionary consequences.
Working Group leader: Jim Bull Group members: Scott Nuismer, Chris Remein, Courtney Schreiner, Tanner Varrelman, Nathan Layman, Andrew Basinski, Anna Sjodin, Breanna Sipley, Beth Tuschhoff Originated: Summer 2016 Description: We develop theory for transmissible vaccines while generating papers and training students and postdocs. Publications: Nuismer SL, Basinski A, Bull JJ. 2019. Evolution and containment of…
Working Group leader: Kristopher Waynant Group members: Darren Thompson, Tyler Siegford, Tanner Hahn Originated: March 1, 2019 Description: Modeling efforts of Muc7 homologs for understanding possible glycosylation patterning that will allow for bacterial agglutination. Using the preliminary results from this data we are attempting to synthesize the first of these analogs. We hope to see…
Working Group leader: Erich Seamon Group members: Jonathan Barnes, Sarah Bassing, Nurbanu Bursa, Matt Falcy, Jean-Marc Gauthier, Xiao Hu, Jennifer Johnson-Leung, Ginny Lane, Hussain Qazaq, Dilshani Sarathchandra, Terence Soule, Klas Udekwu, James Van Leuven, Meng Zhao, Helen Brown Originated: August 2023 Description: This working group will explore research efforts that connect climate change with health…
Working Group Leader: Marty Ytreberg Group Members: Jonathan Barnes, Jagdish Patel, America Chi Originated: December 15, 2022 Description: MoMo will brainstorm ideas to participate in the pandemic preparedness proposal that will be led by University of Texas, Austin.
Working Group leader: Aniruddha Belsare Group members: Craig Miller, JT Van Leuven, Ryan Long, Katherine Lee Originated: September 2017 Description: Given the interconnectedness of animal health, environmental health and human health and well-being, it is necessary to investigate the ecological contexts of animal disease systems that have public health, conservation or economic implications. Such host-pathogen…
Working Group Leader: Tanya Miura. Esteban Vargas, Jean-Marc Gauthier Group members: Pallavia Deol, Eugenia Yeboah, Rodolfo Blanco Rodriguez, Benjamin Whipple Originated: November 8, 2022 Description: The Mathematical Immunology Working Group will develop mathematical models to explain the roles of immune responses during respiratory viral infections.