EcoHealth2020: Complex networks in ecology and eco-epidemiology University of Sapienza Rome, Italy, July 6-7, 2020 |
Conference website | https://ecohealth-2020.weebly.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecohealth2020 |
Networks underlies the relationships between living organisms. Network science is thus essential to study ecological systems and to address the consequences of ecological forces for the health of human, animal and plant populations.
Examples are many. At the miscroscopical scale, ecological networks of microbial communities alter the risk of host infection. Also, their disruption is associated to health problems, ranging from localized gastroenterologic disorders to neurologic illnesses. Reconstructing their topology is a necessary step toward understanding their function and predicting the outcome of their alterations.
At a larger scale, the interactions between diverse host and pathogen populations drive emerging diseases, such as pandemic influenza, coronavirus and vector-borne diseases. Unraveling this complex web is essential to improve pandemic preparedness, response and prevention.
Recent theoretical advances in the fields of network ecology and network epidemiology, are providing ground knowledge to face modern challenges in ecosystems health. Powerful quantitative tools – e.g. multi-layer networks, temporal networks, random matrix theory, interacting dynamical systems and physics of spreading processes – allow for modelling ecological and disease ecological systems at different scales, from microscopic biological interactions, to the level of populations and their spatiotemporal organization.
The aim of the satellite EcoHealth is to create a space for exchanging state-of-the-art results and current developments of network theory applied to ecological systems, and strengthen the dialogue within the diverse and interdisciplinary community of scientists working on modeling multi-level and multi-agent interaction dynamics in ecology, epidemiology and public health. The meeting will be an occasion to identify open questions and new challenges, shortening the path from theory to application
Submission Guidelines
. Submission of contributed talks will be made by sending an abstract (max. 1 page).
Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the Program Committee members, based on :
- Relevance of the topic with respect to the aim of the satellite.
- Novelty of the research
- Diversity and balance with respect to gender, geographic origin, career stage
Program and Organizing Committee
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Chiara Poletto, INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris
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Sandro, Meloni, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Palma De Mallorca
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Samir Suweis, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova, Padova
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Javier Galeano, Department of Agroforestry, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid
Invited Speakers
- Ben Althouse (Institute for Infectious Disease Modeling, Seattle, US) confirmed
- Rosa del Campo (IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain) confirmed
- Yang-Yu Liu (Harvard Medical School, Boston, US) confirmed
- Jacopo Grilli (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy) TBC
- Karoline Faust (KU Leuven, Belgium) TBC
- Sam Scarpino (Northeastern University, Boston, US) confirmed
Venue
Rome - see https://netsci2020.netscisociety.net/
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to suweis at pd dot infn dot it
Sponsors
University of Padova, Dept. Physics and Astronomy; INSERM, Sorbonne Université, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health; Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems