Some topics in infectious disease modelling: strains, claims, signals and more

This will be a whistle-stop tour of a few topics on infectious disease modelling, mainly influenza. Topics to include:

• challenges in capturing dynamics of pathogens with multiple co-circulating strains
• untangling the 2009 influenza pandemic from medical insurance claims data from the US
• bioinformatic methods to detect viral packaging signals
• and a big science project (top secret until the talk!)

Julia will be visiting the Mathematical Institute on sabbatical this term, and hopes this talk will help us find areas of overlapping interests.