Projects

Project details

• Students will work in groups of 2-3 to complete a project.

• You have 2 weeks after the completion of the summer school to hand-in your final project (Due 9am NST Monday September 18).

• As part of your final project, you must create something permanent. This may be:

  • a presentation of your project that you upload to a website;
  • software (i.e., hosted on github) or a dataset;
  • a web app (i.e., R Shiny);
  • a website aimed to communicate your results to the public;
  • you may indicate that you plan to continue working on your project and publish it as a pre-print and submit it for peer-review;

• You must also complete a written project so that we can evaluate the technical details of your work.

Specific expertise of the instructors includes spatial epidemiology, importations, within-host models, zoonotic spillover, and COVID-19. Groups that have their own project idea, please discuss this will the instructors.

Possible projects

1. A guide for infectious disease models aimed to provide decision support

2. Forecasting sampled tick abundance

3. Conditions for forming and suspending the Atlantic bubble

4. Investigating the conditions for locally transmitted dengue infections

5. Simulating the global spread of SARS-CoV-2

6. Leprosy and Biological Invasion

7. Behaviour change in an epidemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an observed resurgence in many sexually transmitted infections (STIs) like syphilis, gonorrhoea, and chlamydia in Canada. Two of the most concerning patterns observed include:

8a. Congenital syphilis and 8b. Antimicrobial-resistent gonorrhoea

9. Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus

10. Dicrocoelium dendriticum and the Zombie Ants