NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Vectored Plant Viruses
Workshop - Knoxville, TN, United States
Topic: Vector Transmission of Plant Viruses
Plant viruses are among the greatest limiting factors to modern agriculture. Climate change and the emergence of new viral strains affect the health and biodiversity of crops and of plants in general, while the continued growth of the human population emphasizes the need for sustainable agriculture. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion of current problems on vectored transmission of plant viruses, with the goal of identifying mathematical, computational, and statistical methods, as well as insights derived using these methods. In addition, this workshop may lead to new collaborations and working groups on methods for prevention and control of vector transmission of plant viruses, which promote sustainable agricultural practices and reduce species invasions. The problems in vector transmission of plant viruses are not simple; they are multiscale and often are driven by data from specific crops or fields. This workshop will bring together experts in plant pathogens, agronomy, and vector and plant virology, physiology, and ecology with mathematical and statistical modelers to discuss problems in prevention and control of vector transmission of plant pathogens.
Some sample breakout sessions envisioned for this workshop include the following:
Linking genomics and other molecular information to epidemiological dynamics
Evolution of novel virus strains
Modeling transmission mechanisms (climate effects, environmental determinants, coinfection)
Epidemiological consequences of mode of virus transmission
Spatial spread of vector-borne infection
Reducing and controlling the rate of spread of emerging virus strains.
Insect dispersal and vector behavior
Organization: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
(Courtesy of University of Tennessee Knoxville, US, via all-crna-schools.com)
For more information, please visit: www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_plantviruses
17–19 March 2014
NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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