Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference

Plenary Talk: Nonlinear dynamics of cardiovascular control in end-stage renal disease patients

Claudia Lerma, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, Ignacio Chávez

ALC 1100

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Coffee Break

First floor lobby

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Cost analysis and evaluation of age- and risk-based mass drug administration against Soil Transmitted Helminthiasis in Ghana

Mugdha Thakur

ALC 1100

10:30 AM

Quantifying the Contribution of Environmental Pathways to the Transmission of Clostridium difficile

Lindsey R. Fox, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Cara Sulyok, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Judy Day, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Cristina Lanzas, North Carolina State University
Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

ALC 1100

11:00 AM

Risk Structured Model of Cholera Infections In Cameroon

Fnu Eric Ngang Che, Howard University
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu Dr., Howard University

ALC 1100

11:30 AM

A generalized model of the transmission dynamics of leishmaniasis with multiple time delays

Ephraim Agyingi, Rochester Institute of Technology

ALC 1100

12:00 PM

Lunch

First floor lobby

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Plenary Talk: How AIDS prevalence impacts the emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial infections

Nina Fefferman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

ALC 1100

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Coffee Break

First floor lobby

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Parameter Identification for a Stochastic SEIRS Epidemic Model: Case Study Influenza

Olusegun M. Otunuga, Marshall University
Anna Mummert, Marshall University

ALC 1100

3:00 PM

Modeling the waning and boosting of immunity: A case study of pertussis in Sweden

Lauren M. Childs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

ALC 1100

3:30 PM

Investigating drivers of dengue emergence in Cordoba, Argentina

Michael Andrew Robert, University of the Sciences of Philadelphia
Rachel Sippy, University of Florida
Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Rebecca C. Christofferson, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
Helen J. Wearing, University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Elizabet L. Estallo, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

ALC 1100

4:00 PM

Explore Richmond

Details to come

4:30 PM - 7:30 PM