The IMMEM XI meeting in Portugal is fantastic – lots of good friends here, and by eating grilled fish every night I can convince myself that eating a custard pastry every day is still okay.<\/p>\n
My keynote followed a tour de force presentation by Ed Feil, who basically covered the entire history of bacterial diversity in 45 minutes. I was somewhat less ambitious, but did cover the ten simple rules i outlined in my earlier blog. The slides are now up at my Slideshare page<\/a>, along with slides from my SMBE and IUATLD NAR talks from the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n I was a little surprised by my survey question in the talk – I asked how many people worked with epidemic models like SIR. A tiny number of hands (a handful of hands? Is that even a thing?) went up. While I don’t think everybody needs to be able to do the math, \u00a0I find that thinking about cases and how they move through compartments during an outbreak (e.g. susceptible, exposed, infected, removed, etc…) is very helpful for understanding transmission. If you want a gentle introduction to compartment models (and zombies), try Robert Smith?’s (yes, that is a ?) excellent 2009 paper When Zombies Attack: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The IMMEM XI meeting in Portugal is fantastic – lots of good friends here, and by eating grilled fish every night I can convince myself that eating a custard pastry every day is still okay. My keynote followed a tour de force presentation by Ed Feil, who basically covered the entire history of bacterial diversity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gardylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}