Ecology of Infectious Disease Workshop at Cornell

本项目将为研究生和博士后学者参加传染病研讨会以及随后的传染病生态学与进化年会提供旅费。研讨会和会议将于2007年5月29日至6月1日在康奈尔大学举行。研讨会的目的是提供疾病系统建模方面的实践培训，特别是当它们与长期数据集相关时。传染病的生态学和进化领域正在迅速扩大。然而，在疾病建模方面受过训练的人或在定量方面有足够能力与数学家合作的生物学家严重短缺。研讨会将解决这一短缺问题。研究生和博士后的培养尤其重要，因为他们代表了这一领域的新一波研究人员。这次会议是第五次聚焦这些主题，并将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 a worrkshop on Infectious Disease and subsequent the Annual Conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases. The workshop and conference will be held at Cornell University on 29 May to 1 June 2007. The purpose of the workshop is to provide hands-on training in modeling disease systems, especially as they pertain to long-term data sets. 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 fifth 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.