talks

Invited seminars, conference presentations, and symposia.

invited talks and seminars

Year Title Venue
2026 Cross-Scale Feedback Motifs: Structure-Preserving Models and Computational Tools for Complex Systems Biological Oceanography Seminar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2026 Decision-Support Modeling for One Health Pathogens Differential Equations Seminar, University of Maryland Baltimore County
2025 Modeling long-term viral infections Mathematics Seminar, Shippensburg University
2025 Scenario and forecast modeling for respiratory viruses Navajo Nation Epidemiology Center Data Summit, Window Rock, AZ
2024 Impacts of host behavior and viral life history on infectious disease transmission Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech; Infectious Disease Dynamics Group, Johns Hopkins University
2024 Within-host viral life histories predict FMDV transmission dynamics for African buffalo Hawlena Lab, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
2024 Modeling process-based effects of harmful algal blooms Department of Mathematics, University of Essex, UK
2023 Modeling process-based effects of harmful algal blooms School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University; Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa; Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences, Eilat
2023 Patterns of cultural variation in the Austronesian expansion Fortunato Lab, University of Oxford (virtual)
2022 Consilience in FMDV ecology Gresham Lab, New York University; Obolski Lab, Tel Aviv University

selected conference presentations

Year Title Conference
2026 Decision-Support Modeling for One Health Pathogens: Using Mechanistic Models for Surveillance and Forecast Design Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Graz, Austria (mini-symposium)
2025 Recovering Ecological Geometry: A Trait- and Depth-Structured IPDE Model of Plankton Dynamics Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Edmonton, Canada (mini-symposium)
2025 Biologically Grounded Surrogate-Driven Parameter Inference for Sparsely Observed Dynamical Systems Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research, Fairfax, VA
2023 Forward hysteresis and Hopf bifurcation in an NPZD model with application to harmful algal blooms Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH (mini-symposium)
2023 Within-host viral growth and immune response rates predict FMDV transmission dynamics for African buffalo SIAM TXLA, Lafayette, LA (mini-symposium)
2022–2023 Dengue immunodynamics: antibody-dependent enhancement, cross-reactive immunity, and model–data confrontation SIAM TXLA (2023); Mathematical Perspectives on Immuno-Biology, Bulgaria (2023); Center for Combatting Pandemics, Tel Aviv (2023); ECTMB, Heidelberg (2022)
2022 Within-host viral growth and immune response rates predict FMDV transmission dynamics for African buffalo SMB Epidemiology-Immunology Midyear Meeting (virtual)
2021 Disease dynamics necessarily operate across scales SIAM TXLA, South Padre Island, TX (mini-symposium)
2021 Modeling COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States with distinct testing, lockdown speed, and fatigue rates Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting (virtual)

symposia organized

Year Symposium Conference
2023 Data-driven mathematical and statistical modeling approaches to population biology SIAM TXLA
2023 Disease Dynamics Across Scales SMB Annual Meeting
2022 Multi-scale and data-driven modeling approaches in ecology, immunology, and epidemiology SMB/ESTMB Joint Meeting
2021 Reproducibility, reliability, and robustness: confronting models from across mathematical biology with data SIAM TXLA
2019 Population Dynamics in Ecology and Epidemiology SIAM TXLA