Events
Upcoming and past events hosted by the Core. Please get in touch if you’d like to advertise a talk or organize a discussion around ongoing research, a paper, or something else.
Most talks are recorded. Contact manonragonnet@uchicago.edu for copies.
CEIRR Network Meeting 2023 Tool Showcase
Prof Sarah Cobey (U. Chicago) leads a breakout session showcasing new computational tools. Louise Moncla, Alexei Markin, Manon Ragonnet, Tavis Anderson and Jesse Bloom will present demos of tools for visualizing HA evolution, identifying reassortment, manipulating and visualizing phylogenies, and estimating antibody escape.
Andreas Handel on Modeling Immune Dynamics
Dr Andreas Handel is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, at the University of Georgia (UGA).
Dr Handel will introduce and discuss a few R-based tools that can help individuals learn about and implement mechanistic within-host models. He will focus on the DSAIRM and modelbuilder R packages and the Simulation Modeling in Immunology resource. Read more
Antigenic drift and subtype interference shape A/H3N2 epidemic dynamics in the United States: Amanda Perofsky
Influenza viruses continually evolve new antigenic variants, through mutations in epitopes of their major surface proteins, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA). Antigenic drift enables the reinfection of previously exposed individuals, but the contribution of this process to the dynamics of annual epidemics is not well understood. Here we link influenza A/H3N2 virus evolution to regional epidemic dynamics in the United States during 1997—2019. Read more.
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CEIRR Network Meeting Breakout Sessions
CMC Members Katelyn Gostic (Research Scientist, Cobey Lab) and Alex Byrnes (Research Programmer, Cobey Lab) lead breakout sessions on calculating imprinting probability, and version control.
Github & Version Control Tutorial: Alex Byrnes 1-2 PM ET, Salon E
Imprinting Probability Tutorial: Katelyn Gostic 2-3 PM ET, Salon E
RSVP (Optional)
CEIRR CMC Talk: Katia Koelle
The first in a series of talks and discussions hosted by the CEIRR Computational Modeling Core. Dr. Katia Koelle will present her research “Masks Do No More Than Prevent Transmission: Theory and Data Undermine the Variolation Hypothesis.”
This talk is open to all CEIRR members.