Mathematical Biology

It’s my great pleasure to announce the continuation of our weekly Math-Bio seminar series! As a reminder, these meetings take place every Wednesday at 2:00 pm (Pacific Time) in the PIMS lounge (ESB 4133). PIMS tea will follow the seminar at around 3:00 pm.

Attend online:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/64671573478?pwd=J1kiOTYqD0TukMjoVRpTWfBbqSr5TM.1
Meeting ID: 646 7157 3478
Passcode: 97957

Following a vaccine inoculation or disease exposure an immune response  develops in time, where the description of its time evolution poses an  interesting problem in dynamical systems. The principal goal of  theoretical immunology is to construct models capable of describing  long term immunological trends from the properties and interactions of  its elementary components. In this talk I will give a brief  description of the human immune system and introduce a simplified  version of its elementary components. I will then discuss our  contributions to the field achieved through my postdoctoral work with  Dr. Jane Heffernan at York University. I will focus on our mechanistic  modelling work describing vaccine-generated SARS-CoV-2 immunity and  applications of our work towards understanding vaccination responses  in people living with HIV. Finally, I will discuss our on-going work  towards developing a machine learning public health platform capable  of predicting immune response outcomes from repeated-dose  immunological data.