Conference Proposal: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases; May 17, 2006; University Park, PA

该项目将为研究生和博士后学者提供旅费，以参加将于5月18日至20日在宾夕法尼亚州立大学举行的第四届传染病生态学和演变问题年度会议，并参加会议前的一个讲习班。该研讨会的目的是提供模拟疾病系统的实践培训，特别是当它们涉及病原体遗传变异受宿主免疫力，传播瓶颈和流行动力学调节时：这些过程相互作用，形成从宿主内到人群尺度上观察到的病原体遗传范围。然而，在疾病建模或生物学家谁是足够的定量与数学家一起工作受过训练的人严重短缺。研讨会将解决这一短缺问题。研究生和博士后的培训尤为重要，因为他们代表了这一领域研究人员的新浪潮。该会议是第三次关注这些主题，并正在成为这一主题的主要年度会议。对传染病生态学的理解对人类健康和农业经济学具有重要意义。

This project will provide travel funds for graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to attend the Fourth Annual Conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases to be held at Penn State University on 18-20 May, and to attend a workshop preceeding the conference. The purpose of the workshop is to provide hands-on training in modeling disease systems, especially as they pertain to Pathogen genetic variation is modulated by host immunity, transmission bottlenecks and epidemic dynamics: these processes interact to shape the range of pathogen phylogenies observed at scales from within-host to population.The field of ecology and evolution of infectious disease is rapidly expanding. However, there is an acute shortage of people trained in disease modeling or biologists who are sufficiently quantitative to work with mathematicians. The workshop will address this shortage. The training of graduate students and post-docs is especially important as they represent the new wave of researchers in this area. The conference is the third focusing on these topics and is becoming the primary annual meeting for this topic. The understanding of the ecology of infectious disease has important implications for human health and the economics of agriculture.