Course content

To see details about the live ‘Methods for infectious disease modelling using genomics’ course and the original programme, you can refer to the course page and programme.

The contents table below outlines the different sessions that were included in the course, as well as the format of the materials (slides/videos/practicals) and each session’s trainer. Either proceed through the materials using the arrows at the end of each page or pick your topic of interest from the table below to skip straight to it.

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 Practicals – View or download the slides, exercises, datasets, analysis scripts and results

Format SubjectTrainer
Concepts in infectious disease modelling
Introduction to infectious disease modellingJohn Lees
SIR models and surveillanceYang Liu
Leonie Lorenz
When traditional epidemiological surveillance fails: Phylodynamics
Swapnil Mishra
Interpreting scientific articles on modellingJohn Lees
Sonja Lehtinen
Joel Hellewell
Leonie Lorenz
 Pathogens and climate change – keynote presentationRachel Lowe
Infectious disease modelling and tools and phylogenetic analysis
Introduction to modelling in STANTimothy Russell,
Víctor Rodríguez Bouza,
Matt Russell
Modelling pathogen evolution using odin.dustSonja Lehtinen
Leonie Lorenz
Nowcasting using EpiNowSam Abbott
Joel Hellewell
Modelling pangenome dynamicsJohn Lees
Jacqueline Toussaint
Leonie Lorenz
Joel Hellewell
Timed phylogenies and ancestral state reconstruction with BEAST2Nicola De Maio
Jacqueline Toussaint
Data management and pathogen databases
Responsible research data managementAjay Mishra
Biomodels databaseRahuman S. Malik Sheriff
Pathogens portalNadim Rahman