Each spring, the CCDD hosts a seminar series featuring experts presenting the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling. The ID Epi Seminar Series aims to bring in speakers from various disciplines within infectious disease epidemiology, broadly defined to include the population biology of pathogens and other allied topics. Seminars will be held on Thursdays at 1pm ET between February 10th and May 12th with the exception of March 17th. Recordings of presentations will be made publicly available on this page each week. Journal club readings can be found here.
The seminar will be hybrid in-person/Zoom. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G2. Attending either in-person or virtually requires registration with the Zoom link at the top of the page.
Due to water damage in Kresge, the seminar series will be fully remote on February 23 (Jared Kehe’s talk), possibly extending to March 3 (Claire Duvallet’s talk).
Seminars
Within-host evolution and its implications for pathogen genomic surveillance (Feb 09)
This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo. Learn more.
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Transmission of respiratory viruses in households (Feb 16)
This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Carlos Grijalva, Professor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology – Departments of Health Policy and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Learn more.
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Massively parallel screening of microbial communities to discover live biotherapeutics (Feb 23)
This webinar will be presented by Jared Kehe, Chief Scientific Officer at Concerto Biosciences. This seminar was not recorded. Learn more.
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Supporting and scaling nationwide Covid-19 wastewater monitoring (Mar 02)
This webinar will be presented by Claire Duvallet, Founding Staff Data Scientist at Biobot. Learn more.
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Immunology of long COVID (Mar 09)
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. Learn more.
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Infectious disease modeling to support rapid outbreak response: insights from academia and government (Mar 23)
This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Caitlin Rivers, Assistant Professor and Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. This seminar will not be recorded. Learn more.
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Tuberculosis screening and prevention for people with HIV (Mar 30)
This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Lelia Chaisson, Research Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. This seminar will not be recorded. Learn more.
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Merging statistical models, mechanistic models, and causal inference in outbreak response (Apr 06)
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. This seminar will not be recorded. Learn more.
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Determinants of SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness and transmission (Apr 13)
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. Learn more.
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Integrating insights from multiplexed pathogen surveillance into epidemiologic models (Apr 20)
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. Learn more.
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Opportunities and challenges of seroepidemiology for understanding pathogen dynamics (Apr 27)
This virtual webinar will be presented by Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer, Assistant Professor at University of California San Francisco. This event will be only virtual. Learn more.
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Precision epidemiology to better prevent and control endemic and emerging diseases in livestock (May 04)
This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Beatriz Martinez Lopez, Professor of Infectious disease epidemiology and Director of the Center for Animal Disease Modeling and Surveillance (CADMS) at the School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis. Learn more.
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Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination (May 11)
This hybrid in-person/virtual webinar will be presented by Florian Krammer, Professor at the Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Learn more.
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