Co-evolution of hosts and parasites

了解宿主和寄生虫之间的拮抗性协同进化对于探索植物、动物和人类群体中的传染病动力学至关重要。在这个项目中，我们将使用数学模型来探索围绕宿主防御疾病的进化及其与寄生虫感染性的共同进化的问题。我们将发展常微分方程系统来描述疾病动力学，并应用适应动力学的框架来探索进化趋势。我们将用计算机模拟来补充这一点。

Understanding the antagonistic coevolution between hosts and their parasites is crucial to exploring infectious disease dynamics in plant, animal and human populations. In this project we will use mathematical models to explore questions around the evolution of host defence to disease and its coevolution with parasite infectivity. We will develop systems of ordinary differential equations to describe the disease dynamics, and apply the framework of adaptive dynamics to explore the evolutionary trends. We will complement this with computational simulations.