The Hidden Architecture of Disease: How Animal Behavior Shapes Infectious Disease Transmission

Abstract: Host social behavior represents a major gap in our understanding of infectious disease dynamics, from emergence to forecasting to elimination. In this talk, I'll use a comparative analysis across 90+ animal species to show the opportunities and constraints social networks provide for infectious disease transmission. I'll conclude with a case study of bottlenose dolphins, demonstrating how integrating social and spatial network data can predict individual disease vulnerability and optimize wildlife surveillance strategies.

astrophysicscomputational biologycomputational engineering, finance, and sciencegeneral mathematicsnonlinear sciencescomputational physicsfluid dynamicsgeneral physics

Audience: researchers in the topic

Northwestern Applied Mathematics Seminar