Participants at our workshop at the NIH in Bethesda, MD
Detailed Agenda
Day 1- Monday, June 30: Scientific Presentations
9:00 – 9:20. Welcome and MISMS overview
– Mark Miller, Fogarty International Center, USA (10 + 10 discussion)
9.20-10.45. Session I: Virology/Immunology.
Chair: Eddie Holmes, University of Sydney
– Jeff Taubenberger, NIAID: Differential mammalian virulence of avian influenza virus hemagglutinin subtypes’ (15 + 10 discussion)
– Graeme Price, FDA: Reduction of influenza virus transmission by a NP and M2-based universal vaccine’ (10 + 10 discussion)
– Karen Gallegos, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, USA: In vitro assessment of influenza resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors (10 + 10 discussion)
– Suzanne Epstein, FDA/CBER/OCTGT: A human surveillance study to assess the impact of immune cross-protection during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (10 + 10 discussion)
10.45-11.15. Coffee break
11.15-12.35. Session II: Epidemiology/Disease Burden
Chair:Cecile Viboud, FIC
– Aubree Gordon, UC-Berkeley: Influenza pediatric cohort studies in Managua, Nicaragua (10 + 10 discussion)
– Peng Wu, University of Hong Kong: Influenza-associated mortality burden in Hong Kong from 1998 through 2012 (10 + 10 discussion)
– Laura Espenhain, EuroMOMO hub at Statens Serum Institute, Denmark: FluMOMO, A coordinated European approach to estimate influenza-attributable excess mortality in almost real time (10 + 10 discussion)
– Rodolfo Acuna-Soto, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico: Where is influenza in Mexico? (10 + 10 discussion)
12.35-2.05. Lunch break
2.05-2:45. Session IIa: Epidemiology/Disease Burden short talks
– Elizabeth Lee, Georgetown University: Detecting Signals of Seasonal Flu Severity through Age-Structured Dynamics (5 + 5 discussion)
– Julien Beaute, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden: Potential and limitations of influenza surveillance data in Europe (5 + 5 discussion)
– Julia Baker, FIC, USA: Unexpected high frequency of viral agents in asymptomatic children and low influenza representation in pneumonia cases among children in rural north Pakistan (5 + 5 discussion)
– Ivonne Morales Benavides, FIC: Mortality impact of the US influenza vaccination program (5 + 5 discussion)
2.45-3.30. Session III: Evolution of influenza in humans
Chair: Bryan Grenfell, University of Princeton
– Eddie Holmes, Sydney University: Evolution of influenza (15 + 10 discussion)
– Elodie Ghedin, New York University: Influenza strain dynamics in an immunosuppressed host (10 + 10 discussion)
3.30-3.50. Coffee break
3.50-4.20. Session III: Evolution of influenza in humans (cont).
– Ram Sasisekharan, FIC: Amino Acid Networks and Viral Evolution (10 + 10 discussion)
– Yi (Tany) Tan, MIT: Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of influenza in southern China (10 + 10 discussion)
4.20-4.40. Session IIIa: Evolution in humans short talks
– Florette Treurnicht, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa: Molecular epidemiology of Influenza viruses in South Africa during the 2013 season (5 + 5 discussion)
– Juan Cristina, Facultad de Ciencias, Uruguay: Genetic variability and evolution of the Neuraminidase gene of pandemic H1N1 Influenza A virus circulating in the South American region (5 + 5 discussion)
Day 2- Tuesday, July 01: Scientific Presentations (continued)
9.00-10.25. Session IV. Transmission dynamics.
Chair: Mark Miller, FIC
– Ben Cowling, University of Hong Kong: Influenza cohort studies (15 + 10 discussion)
– Cecile Viboud/Vivek Charu, FIC: Air travel, commuting, and the spread of influenza (10 + 10 discussion)
– Vittoria Colizza, Inserm, France: Age-specific contacts ad travel patterns in the spatial spread of 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic (10 + 10 discussion)
– Wladimir J Alonso, FIC/NIH: Seasonality of influenza: an example on epistemological limitation and how this affects predictive modeling (10 + 10 discussion)
10.25-10.55. Coffee break
10.55-12.20. Session V. Swine influenza
Chair: Elodie Ghedin, NYU
– Martha Nelson, Fogarty International Center: Swineflows and the evolution of influenza in pigs (15 + 10 discussion)
– Ana Gonzalez-Reiche, University of Maryland: Influenza A virus in swine farms from Guatemala: evidence of zoonotic transmission from humans (10 + 10 discussion)
– Andres Diaz, University of Minnesota: Complete genome characterization of IAV viruses in sow herds (10 + 10 discussion)
– Andrew Bowman, The Ohio State University: Lessons learned from active influenza A virus surveillance at the swine-human interface (10 + 10 discussion)
12.20-1:50. Lunch break
1.50-3.15. Session VI: Avian influenza
– Andrew Rambaut, University of Edinburgh : Phylodynamics of flu (15 + 10 discussion)
– Alice Fusaro, IZSVe : Avian influenza evolution behind the consensus genome (10 + 10 discussion)
– Anthony Fries, The Ohio State University: The movement and persistence of avian-origin influenza A viruses in host waterfowl of the North American Mississippi Migratory Flyway (10 + 10 discussion)
– Jacqueline Nolting, The Ohio State University: Challenges with the Detection and Characterization of Avian-Origin Influenza A Viruses from Wild-Waterfowl (10 + 10 discussion)
3.15-3.45. Coffee break
3.45-4.35. Session VIa. Animal influenza short talks
– Sadia Afreen, ICDDR,B, Bangladesh: Surveillance for human infections with avian influenza A viruses among live bird market workers and their household members in Dhaka city area, Bangladesh
– Mary Lea Killian, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, USA: Evaluation of H5 NA/EA 2008 rRT-PCR Assay Specificity in US Wild Bird Populations
– Sukanta Chowdhury, ICDDR,B, Bangladesh: Influenza A virus surveillance in live bird markets in Bangladesh
– Andres Diaz, University of Minnesota: Genetic diversity of swine influenza (5 + 5 discussion)
– Shamim Sarkar, Center for Communicable Diseases (CCD), ICDDR,B, Bangladesh: Influenza A H3 virus infections in pigs and pig raisers in Bangladesh
Day 3- Wednesday, July 02: Workshop
09:00-10:30 Time-series analyses I
– Wladimir J Alonso, Fogarty International Center. Practical in time-series, spatial analysis methods and tools, data visualization (link to the analytical program EPIPOI)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Modeling
12:00-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Intro to BEAST
– Andrew Rambaut, FIC, Introduction to the BEAST software package for Bayesian methods in phylogenetics. 101
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15.00-17.00 Working time
Day 4- Thursday, July 03: Workshop
9:00-17:00 Workshop:
Hands-on tutorials, small group collaboration, one-on-one instruction
17:00. Closing remarks
– Mark Miller, Fogarty International Center, USA
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