Neglected Vector Modeling Workshop (Ticks, Fleas and Kissing Bugs)

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

Workshop, Penn State

January 30, 2012 @ 03:15 am to January 31, 2012 @ 07:45 am

W257 Koch Room Millennium Science Complex

Monday, January 30th 8:15 am___________ Continental Breakfast: W257 (Koch Room) Millennium Science 9:00 am Welcome and Introduction:_ Peter Hudson (& Kim Pepin?) 9:30 am____ Colleen Webb: Plague: Ecology, epidemiology and the role of host population structure_ 10:00 am_ Michael Buhnerkempe: Plague: Modeling different routes of transmission (insights)______ 10:30 am Coffee Break 11:00 am_ Felicia Keesing: Lyme: Reservoir and vector complexities that cause non-linearities in transmission (within the reservoir and to humans) 11:30 am_ Cherie Briggs: Lyme: Ecology of Lyme disease in CA (issues to consider for modeling transmission)________ 12:00 pm_ Maria Diuk-Wasser: Tick-borne diseases: Predicting entomological risk spatially (include prospects/issues for making predictions over time, i.e., geographic changes) 12:30 pm__ Kim Pepin: Lyme: Quantifying spillover to humans (factors causing geographic variation) 1:00 pm___ Catered Lunch/Break: N310 (3rd floor bridge) Millennium Science 2:30 pm__ Holly Gaff: Mechanistic models of control of tick-borne diseases 3:00 pm_ Uriel Kitron:_Chagas: Reservoir and vector complexities that cause non-linearities in transmission 3:30 pm___ Mike Levy: Mechanistic models of control of chagas disease 4:00 pm__ Les Real: Predicting geographic disease spead (include ideas for Lyme disease) 4:30 pm___ Peter Hudson & Kim Pepin: Discussion and plan for tomorrow 6:00 pm__________ Dinner: Hudson Residence _ Tuesday,_January 31st 8:15 am Continental Breakfast: W257 (Koch Room) Millennium Science 9:00 am Peter & Kim___ Re-cap and plan for the day 9:15 am___ Discussion Group Session: Break into 2-3 discussion groups based on interests. Suggested topics are (but these can be modified based on interests and/or issues that arose yesterday): _Methods of modeling transmission details that optimize the balance of over-complexity & ______ biological reality Models for identifying optimal control strategies Predicting geographic spread Discuss specific questions that need to be addressed in particular systems of interest, data needs, strategies for moving forward 10:30 am Coffee Break 10:45 am_________ Summaries from each group to full group; discussion of outcome 11:45 am Group discussion and planning for data needs, work and potential sources 12:45 pm Closing Remarks & Adjournment 1:00 pm Catered Lunch/Break: N310 (3rd floor bridge) Millennium Science