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SUMMARY:Ecological niche modeling and infectious disease -  Dr. Daniel Hen
 k\, University of Bath
DTSTART:20130130T140000Z
DTEND:20130130T150000Z
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CONTACT:Danielle Stretch
DESCRIPTION:Ecological niche modelling is a set of computational technique
 s that predicts complete geographic ranges of species based on environment
 al data from the locations in which individuals of a species have been fou
 nd. This approach is widely used in evolutionary biology and ecology and p
 articularly useful when data about species are sparse or individuals are d
 ifficult to locate\, such as rare organisms or cryptic organisms. Naturall
 y\, predicting the geographic ranges of diseases\, particularly newly iden
 tified or rarely reported diseases caused by 'environmental' microbes woul
 d be a beneficial pursuit. We will attempt to review how the techniques wo
 rk\, have been used\, and in what ways they are appropriate to use in the 
 context of microbial pathogens.\n\nThe talk is part of the CCBI seminar se
 ries and the DTP graduate course Reviews in Computational Biology\, but is
  open to all attendees.
LOCATION:MR4\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambr
 idge
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