Week 15 - Sept 6

Logistics

• Manuela out all week
• Monday Sept 6: holiday
• Tuesday Sept 7, 10am: AMMnet seminar
• Tuesday Sept 7, 11am: capacity development conversation with IDM
• Friday Sept 10: journal club
• Friday Sept 10: final draft of Aims pages due

Technical track (EMOD)

No technical instruction this week. Continue to refine own research projects.

Presentations

Prepare slide decks for final EMOD research project presentations.

Journal club

Presenter: Ethel

Facilitator: Jaline

Selvaraj P, Wenger EA, Bridenbecker D, Windbichler N, Russell JR, Gerardin J, Bever CA, Nikolov M. Vector genetics, insecticide resistance and gene drives: An agent-based modeling approach to evaluate malaria transmission and elimination. PLoS computational biology. 2020 Aug 14;16(8):e1008121.

Additional recommended reading:

Impact of mosquito gene drive on malaria elimination in a computational model with explicit spatial and temporal dynamics

Modeling impact and cost-effectiveness of driving-Y gene drives for malaria elimination in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Proposal writing

Aims final drafts due Friday.