2nd Workshop and Conference on

Modeling Infectious Diseases


Workshop: September 13-18, 2010

The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Chennai, India

Venue: Ramanujan Auditorium

 

Workshop Schedule

 

Time

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

9:00-9:30

Welcome

 

 

 

 

 

9:30-10:30

Somdatta Sinha

Rahul Siddharthan

Satyajit Rath

RamRup Sarkar

Narendra Dixit

Narendra Dixit

10:30-11:00

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

11:00-12:00

Tushar Vaidya

Gautam Menon

Nagasuma Chandra

RamRup Sarkar

Sitabhra Sinha

Narendra Dixit

12:00-1:00

Tushar Vaidya

Somdatta Sinha

Nagasuma Chandra

Chandrika Rao

Narendra Dixit

Sitabhra Sinha

1:00-2:00

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

LUNCH

2:00-3:00

Rahul Siddharthan

Satyajit Rath

Nagasuma Chandra

RamRup Sarkar

Narendra Dixit

Sudeshna Sinha

3:00-3:30

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

TEA/COFFEE

3:30-4:30

Gautam Menon

Satyajit Rath

Indrani Bose

Aditya Rao

RamRup Sarkar

Concluding Session

4:30-5:30

Somdatta Sinha

Indrani Bose

Indrani Bose

Indrani Bose

Narendra Dixit

 

6:00-7:00

Computer Lab

Computer Lab

Computer Lab

Computer Lab

Computer Lab

 

 

Courses:                                                                         

 

Indrani Bose: Bacterial persistence: A search for physical principles

Nagasuma Chandra: Systems level modeling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Aparup Das: Malaria epidemiology and genomic landscape of malaria vectors, parasites and humans in India

Narendra Dixit: Dynamics of molecular evolution

Gautam Menon: Agent-based models for infectious diseases

Aditya Rao: Studying host-parasite protein-protein interactions in cerebral malaria

Chandrika Rao: Inverse analysis of idiotypic network interactions

Satyajit Rath: 1. Immune system design: phylogeny and ontogeny, 2. The functional anatomy of immune response, 3. Infections, immunity and disease

RamRup Sarkar: 1-2. Population-based models in epidemiology; 3. Data-based models in epidemiology; 4. Eco-epidemiological models

Rahul Siddharthan: Gene regulation, pathogenesis and immune response

Sitabhra Sinha: Complex networks and the contact structure of epidemics

Somdatta Sinha: 1. Modeling infectious diseases: an overview; 2. Quantitative analysis of genomes; 3. Host-parasite interactions: discrete models

Sudeshna Sinha: Cellular automata models of disease spreading

Tushar Vaidya: The Yang of host-pathogen interactions

 

Conference: September 20-22, 2010

Radisson Resort Temple Bay
Mamallapuram, India

 

Conference Schedule

 

 

Time

Monday

Time

Tuesday

Time

Wednesday

 

 

7:30-9:00

BREAKFAST

7:30-9:00

BREAKFAST

10:30

Departure from IMSc

9:00-9:40

Aparup Das

9:00-9:40

B M Jaffar Ali

12:00

Arrival at Temple Bay

9:40-10:20

Tushar Vaidya

9:40-10:20

Manish Kakkar

12:00-2:00

WELCOME & LUNCH

10:20-11:00

Sunita Gakkhar

10:20-11:00

B Ravindran

2:00-2:40

Somdatta Sinha

11:00-11:30

BREAK

11:00-11:30

BREAK

2:40-3:20

Narendra Dixit

11:30-12:10

V Kumaraswami

11:30-12:30

Open Forum & Discussion

3:20-4:00

Anna George

12:10-12:50

Niloy Ganguly

12:30-2:00

LUNCH

4:00-4:30

BREAK

12:50-2:00

LUNCH

2:00

Departure from

Temple Bay

4:30-5:10

Sudeshna Sinha

2:00-4:00

Contributed Talks

Session I

3:00

Arrival at IMSc

5:10-5:50

Sarika Mehra

4:00-4:30

BREAK

 

 

5:50-6:30

RamRup Sarkar

4:30-7:00

Contributed Talks

Session II

 

 

7:30 onwards

DINNER

7:00 onwards

CONFERENCE

BANQUET

 

 

 

Invited Talks:                                                                   

 

B M Jaffar Ali: Simulation of Nitric Oxide signaling network: Implications in host-pathogen interactions

Aparup Das: Malaria epidemiology and genomic landscape of malaria vectors, parasites and humans in India

Narendra Dixit: Optimizing the treatment of hepatitis C virus infection by rational management

Sunita Gakkhar: Mathematical models in eco-epidemiology

Niloy Ganguly: Coverage maximization in networks under resource constraints

Anna George: Recruitment of immune memory

Manish Kakkar: Mathematical modeling in aid of public health interventions

V Kumaraswami: Lymphatic filariasis: New challenges and new solutions

Sarika Mehra: Study of mycobacterium pathogenesis using comparative genomics

B Ravindran: Inflammation: TLR-2 in monkeys, chimps and humans

RamRup Sarkar: Multi-step polynomial regression method to model and forecast malaria incidence

Somdatta Sinha: Analyzing host-pathogen co-evolution in HIV-1

Sudeshna Sinha: Dynamic transitions in a model of infection spreading

Tushar Vaidya: Modeling in infectious diseases

 

Contributed Talks:

 

Sk Taslim Ali: The transmission dynamics of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009-10 in India

Gauri Awasthi: Evolutionary genomic approach in identification of novel gene(s) conferring chloroquine resistance in India

Sayantani Basu Roy: A response surface method based model of malaria prevalence

Amar Nath Chatterjee: Delay effect in a mathematical model of HIV infected T-cell against killing by CTL

Bhagat Lal Dutta: Host-parasite dynamics in heterogeneous lattice metapopulations

Arnold Emerson: K-core decomposition of protein contact networks in infectious disease targets

Somdeb Ghose: Stochastic coherence in SIRS model

T Jesan: Epidemic dynamics on modular networks

Sandip Mandal: Development of a biologically realistic mathematical model of malaria

Aridaman Pandit: Using genomic signatures for HIV-1 sub-typing

Soumyajit Pramanick: Studying the dynamics of an infectious disease over a small-world network population structure

Govind Prasad Sahu: Analysis of an SVEI epidemic model with non-linear incidence rate

Supreet Saini: Coordinated control of the flagellar, needle and fimbriae in the Salmonella invasion program

Prashant Kumar Srivastava: HIV two strain model with therapy

Perumal Venkatesan: Machine learning approaches for protein structure prediction