This webinar will be presented by Jared Kehe, Chief Scientific Officer at Concerto Biosciences. Register here. Dr. Jared Kehe is a cofounder of Concerto Biosciences, a biotech company that rebuilds microbial communities in, on, and around us to heal our bodies and our planet. Jared invented kChip, the only ultra-high-throughput platform to measure millions of microbial interactions. Using kChip data, Concerto maps interaction networks that reveal “ensembles”—groups of microbes that…

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This webinar will be presented by Claire Duvallet, Founding Staff Data Scientist at Biobot. Register here. Claire is a founding data scientist at Biobot Analytics, a startup transforming sewers into public health observatories. As a technical lead on Biobot’s data science team, Claire provides high-level technical guidance across a variety of projects and programs at Biobot. In her role, she works closely with the data science team as a contributor…

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This virtual webinar will be presented by Akiko Iwasaki, Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Register for the Zoom here. Dr. Akiko Iwasaki is a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Professor Iwasaki received her Ph.D. in Immunology from…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Trevor Bedford, Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the Zoom here. Trevor Bedford is a Professor in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an Affiliate…

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The Workshop to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling and Public Health is an annual event for undergraduates or students in a post baccalaureate program from underrepresented groups who have an interest in public health and/or mathematical modeling, and are studying quantitative disciplines and/or public health at their home institutions. Over one and a half days, students get a brief introduction to the existing possibilities in mathematical modeling. Sessions will include…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Lelia Chaisson, Research Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Attending either in-person or Zoom requires registration with the following link. Register here. Lelia Chaisson, PhD, MSc, is Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a core faculty member of the UIC…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Jess Edwards, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2 and does not require registration. Register for the Zoom here. Jess Edwards is an infectious disease epidemiologist who focuses on sharpening quantitative methods to inform public health decisions using imperfect data sources, particularly those collected…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Ajit Lalvani, Chair of Infectious Diseases, Founding Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre and Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Respiratory Infections, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Register here. Ajit leads the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections to…

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This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Saki Takahashi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Register here. Saki Takahashi is broadly interested in developing mathematical and statistical models, closely linked to empirical data, to understand how immunity shapes the risk, burden, and spread of infectious diseases, and to harness these…

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This virtual webinar will be presented by Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, Assistant Professor at University of California San Francisco. Unlike other events in the seminar series, this seminar is only virtual. Register here. Isabel is an Assistant Professor in the Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine at UCSF. She is interested in applying novel epidemiological and statistical methods to understand the dynamics of infectious diseases. Most of her experience is related…

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