El grupo de Física Estadística y de los Sistemas Complejos les invita al siguiente seminario:

Ponente: Víctor Buendía. 

Título:  Evolution in host-pathogen systems: emergent trade-offs and self-evolved criticality.

Resumen: 

Understanding how evolution works is an open question in ecological systems. In the last years there has been an effort to understand host-parasite systems. Despite the advances in the field of computational epidemiology, there are many features of the observed viral strains that we cannot understand yet: why are most viruses mild? How does natural selection operate in these systems? How does co-evolution with host emerges? In this talk, I will review a stochastic evolutionary model that displays an emergent trade-off between transmission and virulence by a self-organization mechanism, called "self-evolved criticality". I will show how this self-evolved criticality regulates the virulence of the epidemy, making it mild, and how extensions of this model can give new insights into the field of evolutionary biology.  

Lugar: Seminario de Física estadística. Planta baja del edificio de Física. Facultad de Ciencias. 

Más información: https://ic1.ugr.es/eventos/wp/seminariosinternos16/2018/12/11/evolution-in-host-pathogen-systems-emergent-trade-offs-and-self-evolved-criticality/

Atentamente,