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Exhibitor Company Profiles Epidemics6 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics 2017 | Oral Programme Oral Program Tuesday 28th November 2017 11:00-13:00 Pre Conference Workshop Registration I Tramuntana foyer 13:00-17:30 Pre Conference Workshop (Registration required) I Tramuntana 1 17:00-19:00 Registration I Tramuntana foyer 19:00-20:30 Welcome Reception & Poster Session 1 I Tramuntana I Wednesday 29th November 2017 07:30-08:30 Registration I Tramuntana foyer Room Tramuntana II/III 08:30-08:40 Welcome & Opening Remarks by Conference Chairs 08:40-09:10 [PLN01] Roy Anderson, Imperial College London, UK 09:10-09:50 [PLN02] Liz Corbett, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 09:50-10:30 [PLN03] Caroline Buckee, Harvard School of Public Health, USA 10:30-11:10 [PLN04] Marc Bonten, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands 11:10-11:40 Refreshment Break I Hall Tramuntana Rooms Tramuntana II/III Mestral Garbi 11:40-13:00 Session 1: AMR 1 Session 2: Contact Session 3: Evolution Session Chair: TBC Session Chair: TBC Session Chair: TBC 11:40-12:00 [O1.1] Why sensitive bacteria are [O2.1] Impact of regular school [O3.1] Diversity of multiple resistant to hospital infection closure on seasonal influenza infection patterns and virulence control epidemics evolution E. van Kleef*1 ,2, N. Luangasanatip3, G. De Luca1, K. Van Kerckhove2, P. M.T. Sofonea*, S. Alizon, M.J.M. Bonten1, B.S. Cooper1 Coletti2, C. Poletto1, N. Bossuyt3, N. Y. Michalakis, MIVEGEC, France ,4, 1University Medical Center Hens2 ,4, V. Colizza*1 ,5, 1Inserm, Utrecht, The Netherlands, France, 2Hasselt University, Belgium, 2Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine 3Scientific Institute of Public Health, Research Unit, Thailand, 3London Belgium, 4University of Antwerp, School of Hygiene and Tropical Belgium, 5ISI Foundation, Italy Medicine, UK, 4University of Oxford, UK 12:00-12:20 [O1.2] Ecological association [O2.2] Quantifying the [O3.2] Neutral mutations and between unequal antibiotic effectiveness of contact tracing selection drive pervasive loss of consumption and antibiotic efforts using mathmatical mutability in long-lived B cell resistance modeling: The 2014 Ebola outbreak lineages during chronic HIV S.W. Olesen*1, M.L. Barnett1 ,2, D. in Mali as a case study infection MacFadden1 ,3, M. Lipsitch1, Y.H. L.F. Moriarty*, G. Chowell, Georgia M. Vieira*, D. Zinder, S. Grad1 ,2, 1Harvard T. H. Chan State University, USA Cobey, University of Chicago, School of Public Health, USA, USA 2Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA, 3University of Toronto, Canada 12:20-12:40 [O1.3] Elucidating plausible [O2.3] A nonparametric method for [O3.3] Real-time genomic mechanisms of coexistence helps simulating sexual contact networks surveillance of pathogen predict the impact of vaccination using limited data: applications to evolution and spread upon antibiotic resistance the South African HIV epidemic T. Bedford, Fred Hutchinson N.G. Davies*, S. Flasche, M. Jit, K.E. K.A. Risher*1 ,2, D.D. Celentano2, S.H. Cancer Research Center, USA Atkins, London School of Hygiene Mehta2, L. Simbayi3, O. Shisana4, T. & Tropical Medicine, UK Rehle3 ,5, J. Lessler2, 1London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, 2Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, Epidemics6 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics 2017 | Oral Programme 3Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 4Evidence Based Solutions, South Africa, 5University of Cape Town, South Africa 12:40-13:00 [O1.4] An evolutionary model to [O2.4] Participatory development [O3.4] Detecting signatures of predict the frequency of antibiotic of a contact diary tool to capture transmission reduction on the resistance under seasonal dynamic household structure and road to eradication antibiotic use, and an application mobility within and between G. Rydevik, S. Lycett*, University to Streptococcus pneumoniae remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait of Edinburgh, UK F. Blanquart*, S. Lehtinen, C. Islander communities Fraser, University of Oxford, UK J. McVernon*1 ,2, K. Gibney1, S. Hanieh1, B. Biggs1, J. Shield1, B. Davison3, G. Singh3 ,4, T. Kearns3, M. McKinnon3, R.G. Dhurrkay3, 1The Royal Melbourne Hospital and the University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia, 2The University of Melbourne, Australia, 3Menzies School of Health Research, Australia, 4Northern Territory Medical Program of Flinders and James Cook Universities, Australia, 5Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation, Australia, 6University of Melbourne, Australia, 7University of Melbourne, Australia 13:00-14:00 Lunch | Noray Restaurant 13:00-14:00 Author Workshop I TBC Rooms Tramuntana II/III Mestral Garbi 14:00-15:40 Session 4: Influenza 1 Session 5: Genetic diversity Session 6: Social & network Session Chair: TBC Session Chair: TBC Session Chair: TBC 14:00-14:20 [O4.1] Collaborative efforts to [O5.1] Phyloscanner: Analysing [O6.1] A data-driven social routinely forecast seasonal within- and between-host behavioural model influenza in the United States pathogen genetic diversity to for individual vaccination across four influenza seasons, identify transmission, multiple decisions 2013-14 to 2016-17 infection, recombination and J.J. Hoogink*1 ,2, D.W.F. van M. Biggerstaff*, C. McGowan, M. contamination Krevelen1, J. Wallinga1 Johansson, C. Reed, Centers for C. Wymant*1 ,2, M. Hall1 ,2, O. ,2, 1National Institute for Public Disease Control and Prevention, Ratmann2, D. Bonsall1, T. Health and Environment, The USA Golubchik1, M. de Cesare1, A. Gall3, Netherlands, 2Leiden University M. Cornelissen4, C. Fraser1 Medical Center, The Netherlands ,2, 1University of Oxford, UK, 2Imperial College London, UK, 3University of Cambridge, UK, 4University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands [O5.2] Resolving HIV-1 transmission between agrarian, trading and fisherfolk communities in Rakai, Uganda, with deep sequencing data O. Ratmann*1, M.K. Grabowski2 ,3, M. Hall4, T. Golubchik4, C. Wymant4, T. Quinn5 ,3, M. Wawer2 ,3, D. Serwadda3 ,6, R. Gray2 ,3, C. Fraser4, 1Imperial College London, UK, 2Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, 3Rakai Health Sciences Program, Uganda, 4University of Oxford, UK, 5National Epidemics6 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics 2017 | Oral Programme Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA, 6Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda 14:20-14:40 [O4.2] Forecasting the spatial [O5.3] Using phyloscanner to [O6.2] Statistical estimation of transmission of influenza in the identify HIV transmission clusters network models from United States and epidemiological correlates of egocentrically sampled network S. Pei*, S. Kandula, W. Yang, J. transmission data M. Morris*1, P.N. Shaman, Columbia University, USA M.D. Hall*1, C. Wymant1, O. Krivitsky2, 1University of Ratmann2, C. Fraser1, 1University of Washington, USA, 2University of Oxford, UK, 2Imperial College Wollongong, Australia London, UK 14:40-15:00 [O4.3] Predicting influenza - how [O5.4] Large variations in HIV-1 [O6.3] Nipah virus human forecast accuracy improves with viral load explained by shifting- transmission chains: Risk factors earlier data availability mosaic metapopulation dynamics and opportunities for control C. Zimmer*, S. Leuba, R. Yaesoubi, K.A. Lythgoe1 ,2, F. Blanquart1 ,2, L. B. Nikolay*1, H. Salje1, M.J. T. Cohen, Yale University, USA Pellis*3, C. Fraser1 ,2, 1University of Hossain2 ,3, A.K.M.D. Khan1, Oxford, UK, 2Imperial College H.M.S. Sazzad1, J. Pulliam1, A. M. London, UK, 3University of Warwick, Kilpatrick1, S. Sultana1, S. Afroj1, UK S.P. Luby1, E.S. Gurley1, S. Cauchemez1, 1Institut Pasteur, France, 2Medical Research Council Unit, Gambia, 3icddr,b, Bangladesh 15:00-15:20 [O4.4] Immune history and [O5.5] The Virome of Manhattan: A [O6.4] Spread of hospital- forecasting the evolution of testbed for radically advancing acquired infections: A seasonal influenza virus understanding and forecast of viral comparison of healthcare K. Kim*1, S. Hensley2, S. respiratory infections networks Cobey1, 1The University of Chicago, J. Shaman*1 ,2, P. Planet2 ,3, R. N. Nekkab*1 ,2, P. Astagneau3 ,4, L. USA, 2The University of Rabadan1, W. Chung1, S. Anthony1, Temime1 ,2, P. Crépey3 Pennsylvania, USA D. Hsu1, G. Freyer1, 1Columbia ,6, 1Conservatoire National des University, USA, 2American Museum Arts et Métiers, France, 2Institut of Natural History, USA, 3University Pasteur, France, 3Ecole des of Pennsylvania, USA Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique, France, 4Centre de prévention des infections associées aux soins, France, 5Sorbonne Universités, France, 6Faculté de Médecine- Timone, France, 7Université de Rennes 1, France 15:20-15:40 [O4.5] Comparison of ensemble [O5.6] What drives antigenic [O6.5] A novel methodology to methods for forecasting influenza diversity in pathogenic bacteria? study the uncertainty in the in the United States Insights from integrated genomic structure of contact leading to N.G. Reich*, A. Tushar, G.C. approaches transmission Gibson, E.L. Ray, University of R.J. Mostowy, Imperial College M. Baguelin*1 ,2, E. van Leeuwen1 Massachusetts Amerst, USA London, UK ,3, P. Klepac1 ,3, N. Demiris4, 1Public Health England, UK, 2London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, 3Imperial College London, UK, 4Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Epidemics6 - International Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics 2017 | Oral Programme 15:40-16:10 Refreshment Break I Hall Tramuntana Rooms Tramuntana II/III Mestral Garbi 16:10-17:50 Session 7: Phylodynamics 1 Session 8: Dengue Session
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