Skip to Content

Sponsors

No results

Tags

No results

Types

No results

Search Results

Events

No results
Search events using: keywords, sponsors, locations or event type
When / Where
All occurrences of this event have passed.
This listing is displayed for historical purposes.

Presented By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

EEB Thursday Seminar: Building predictive capacity in zoonotic disease ecology

Barbara Han, Disease Ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook NY

predicting zoonotic disease ecology predicting zoonotic disease ecology
predicting zoonotic disease ecology
With the global rise of infectious diseases there is increasing demand for tools that enable us to better predict future disease threats. Ideally, such predictions would enable us to better target ongoing surveillance, and target research to understand when and why spillover infections are likely to occur. This seminar will give examples of predictive analyses that have been undertaken with the aid of machine learning algorithms, which were trained to identify particular wild species that may be the most likely carriers for human infectious pathogens. These analyses have also generated hypotheses about why some species seem to be so much better at carrying zoonotic pathogens compared to others. Some new and ongoing projects will be discussed that expand process-agnostic ecoinformatic methods with existing theory of disease dynamics and life history to build predictive capacity in disease ecology.
predicting zoonotic disease ecology predicting zoonotic disease ecology
predicting zoonotic disease ecology

Explore Similar Events

  •  Loading Similar Events...

Back to Main Content