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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mike Boots\nAbstract: Infectious disease remains a maj
 or health problem and as recent epidemics emphasise may have a\nmajor econ
 omic impact in agriculture.  Furthermore the risk of emergence of infect
 ious disease is\nincreasingly recognised as a global health threat.  In 
 the natural world there is also an increasing\nawareness that disease play
 s an important role in the structuring of natural communities\, the\npopul
 ation dynamics of their hosts and the conservation of endangered species.
     There is\ntherefore considerable research effort focussed on underst
 anding and managing disease. Central\nto this understanding of infectious 
 disease is a better understanding of the evolutionary dynamics\nthat drive
  the characteristics of the disease interaction.  It is clearly importan
 t to understand the\nfactors that determine the virulence (mortality) that
  infectious disease agents cause.  In addition it\nis critical to unders
 tand the processes that maintain diversity in both the disease agent and t
 heir\nhosts.    This diversity plays a key role in determining disease s
 pread and is fundamental to the\npotential for evolution of the disease. 
    Ecological feedbacks and the environment may play an\nimportant role i
 n determining both the degree of virulence that evolves and the potential 
 for\ndiversification.  I use mathematical/computer models and laboratory
  based insect model systems\nto examine how ecology influences the evoluti
 on of infectious disease. Here I will give two\nexamples of this work.  
 Firstly I will show how ecological feedbacks can generate diversity in hos
 ts\nand parasites. Next I will show how variation in spatial structure and
  contact networks within host\npopulations can have important implications
  to the evolution of disease virulence. The approach is\nto combine mathem
 atical models with more general computer simulations and use an insect vir
 us\nsystem to test the assumptions and the predictions of the models.
LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, Central Building\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:ihetzenauer@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Mike Boots: Institute Colloquium@IST Austria - Ecology and the evol
 ution of infectious disease:
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/439
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