U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Mathematical Modeling of Host-Parasite Systems in Marine Environment

这个为期三年的奖项将支持美国和法国在应用数学和海洋环境方面的合作研究。调查人员是普渡大学的法比奥·米尔纳、波尔多大学的米歇尔·朗莱和蒙彼利埃大学的帕特里克·西兰。他们的研究目标是在海洋环境中建立宿主-寄生虫模型。首先，他们将模拟宿主-寄生虫系统的全循环动力学，并研究其定性和定量的数学性质及其生物学和生态学后果。他们将进行模拟，通过将结果与实验数据进行比较来验证这些模型。作为这项工作基础的生物学模型是海鲈鱼。美国研究者为这次合作带来了相当多的数学技能和计算资源。此外还有法国调查人员的多学科专门知识（生物学和数学）以及法国提供的海洋设施和实际数据。提出的模型将促进对陆地和海洋环境中种群相互作用的其他模型的研究。

This three-year award will support U.S.-France cooperative research in applied mathematics and marine environment. The investigators are Fabio Milner of Purdue University, Michel Langlais of the University of Bordeaux, and Patrick Silan of the University of Montpellier. The objective of their research is to develop host-parasite models in a marine environment. Initially they will model the dynamics of host-parasite systems with hologenic cycle and study their qualitative and quantitative mathematical properties and their biological and ecological consequences. They will perform simulations to validate these models by comparing their results with experimental data. The biological model serving as the basis for this work is the sea bass. The U.S. investigator brings to this collaboration considerable mathematical skills and computational resources. These are complemented by the multidisciplinary expertise of the French investigators (biology and mathematics) and access to marine facilities and real-life data offered by the French. The proposed model will advance research on other models for interacting populations both in land and marine environments.