Wednesday, 25 June

Variation and Selection Workshop

How are effects of individual variation in population dynamics accounted for in epidemiology, economics, immunology, ecology, microbiology?

By Gabriela Gomes

Date and time

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:30 - 18:30 GMT+1

Location

Livingstone Tower, Room LT908

26 Richmond Street Glasgow G1 1XH United Kingdom

Agenda

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Welcome and coffee

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

University of Strathclyde

Gabriela Gomes

Topic overview

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

University of Oslo

Morten Valberg

Unobserved heterogeneity in risk: Presence, magnitude and implications

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Leiden University

Hein Putter

Parameter estimation in compartmental epidemic models with heterogeneity in susceptibility

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

University of Manchester

Gemma Shields

Identifying key patient characteristics for acknowledgement of patient heterogeneity in economic evaluations in severe mental illness

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

NOVA University of Lisbon

Jorge Carneiro

Quantifying and modelling cellular heterogeneity in the immune system: does multimodality reflect multiple stable states?

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Freie Universität Berlin

Ulrich Steiner

Non-genetic, non-environmental individual heterogeneity, quantification, consequences, evolution and maintenance

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

University of Oxford

David Steinsaltz

Quasistationarity in models of biological populations

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Strathclyde and Glasgow

Gabriela Gomes and Daniel Haydon

Wrap-up and closure

About this event

Event lasts 9 hours

Variation and Selection Workshop

Welcome to our Variation and Selection Workshop! Join us for an exciting event where we will hear about common biases affecting studies involving populations and explore general approaches to the problem.

Location: Livingstone Tower

Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to learn from experts in the field and engage in groundbreaking discussions. Come and join us for an intellectually stimulating day!

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