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Evolutionary dynamics and influenza

  • The Science Center (Rm 4102), The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue New York, NY, 10016 United States (map)

F Oct 12 9:30am-6:15pm in the Science Center (Rm 4102)
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here. Download full schedule here.

9:30am Coffee & Bagels

10:30am What the 1918 flu taught us about adaptation to self
Benjamin Greenbaum,  Mount Sinai School of Medicine

11:30am Coffee

12:00pm Minimal fitness models for evolutionary predictions
Marta Łuksza, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

1:30pm Lunch

2:30pm Universality in rapidly adapting populations
Richard Neher, University of Basel

4:00pm Coffee

4:30pm Learning influenza infection dynamics from genetic data
Daniel Weissman, Emory University

Full series PDF here.

Sponsored by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, and by the CUNY doctoral programs in Physics and Biology. Supported in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of The Graduate Center and Princeton University. For more information see https://biophysics.princeton.edu.