Don’t miss this opportunity to hear how Washington’s life science community (which includes long time MIDAS member Betz Halloran) partnered with public health officials to help lower the Seattle region’s pandemic curve. Continue Reading Life Science Washington to hold COVID-19 Webinar on April 23
Dr. Marc Lipsitch is the author of an opinion article in the New York Times on COVID-19 and immunity. He and other authors also discuss this in the context of transmission and post-pandemic preparedness in a Science article. Continue Reading New York Times: MIDAS member Dr. Marc Lipsitch offers key insights on COVID-19 and immunity
John Drake has been named a 2020 Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Continue Reading Professor John Drake named 2020 Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
In ongoing efforts to provide extracted parameter estimates for MIDAS members’ modeling research, many in-patient parameters can now be found in the COVID-19 Data Portal in addition to the growing collection of transmission parameters. Continue Reading COVID-19 Parameter Estimates Now Expanded to Clinical Outcomes
This new article discusses a coarse taxonomy of models and explores the context and significance of the Imperial College and other models in contributing to the analysis of COVID-19. Continue Reading Commentary by Stephen Eubank et al. highlights MIDAS
NIH releases new notices about funding opportunities for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. Continue Reading New NIH COVID-19 Funding Announcements
The New York Times continues to feature expertise from MIDAS members in articles published about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Continue Reading MIDAS members featured in New York Times articles on COVID-19
MIDAS member Micaela Martinez discusses seasonality of infectious disease in Science! Continue Reading Dr. Micaela Martinez Featured in Science
An extraordinary collection of data and information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic created by MIDAS members and the broader public health and research community. Continue Reading MIDAS Releases Online Portal for COVID-19 Modeling Research
The National Science Foundation has several funding opportunities related to COVID-19. Find details of these announcements here! Continue Reading New COVID-19 Funding Announcements from NSF
Since the beginning of 2020, our network has grown from 230 members to over 300 members from over 16 different countries, including people from undergraduate students to professors to industry professionals. Continue Reading MIDAS Network Reaches Over 300 Members!
Check out this month’s exciting job opportunities in infectious diseases and mathematical modeling! Continue Reading New Job Opportunities in March
In the wake of the novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), several MIDAS researchers have been contacted by the press to share their expertise in infectious disease dynamics and genetic sequencing to better understand how the COVID-19 outbreak may develop. Continue Reading News Outlets Approach MIDAS Researchers for Expertise During COVID-19 Outbreak
Hurry to apply for an exciting post-doc position at SACEMA, fellowship in Outbreak Science, or lecturer position at the University of Edinburgh! SACEMA Postdoctoral Fellowship… Continue Reading Job Opportunities
Below are current funding opportunities related to infectious disease modeling: NSF – Algorithms for Threat Detection NSF 20-531Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 18, 2020 The… Continue Reading New Funding Opportunities
Click here to see current job opportunities related to the MIDAS mission. Continue Reading Job Opportunities
The MIDAS Coordination Center has released a central GitHub repository for researchers to share relevant resources for COVID-19 modeling.
Continue Reading MIDAS COVID-19 Repository Now Public
New Notice of Special Interest Funding through NIH for the 2019 novel Coronavirus. Continue Reading New Notice of Special Interest Funding through NIH
MIDAS members Marc Lipsitch, Joseph Wu, and Alessandro Vespignani were featured in Science News. Continue Reading MIDAS Members Discuss 2019-nCoV in Science News
Trevor Bedford and his team were featured in Science News for their use of Nextstrain study the genome of 2019-nCoV. Continue Reading Trevor Bedford and Nextstrain Featured in Science News
Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Continue Reading Early Research on Novel Coronavirus Published in New England Journal of Medicine
There is an open postdoctoral position to work in collaboration with Robert Woods, Aaron King, Andrew Read, and their teams. Continue Reading Collaborative Post-Doc Position Open
Outbreak Science PREreview is a platform for sharing and reviewing pre-prints for 2019-nCoV studies. Continue Reading Outbreak Science PREreview a Platform for Pre-Prints for 2019-nCoV Studies
Pejman Rohani has been named Regents’ Professor for research that is recognized both nationally and internationally as innovative and pace-setting. Continue Reading Pejman Rohani named Regents’ Professor at University of Georgia
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications to establish Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB) Interdisciplinary Research Units (CARBIRUs) focused on improving our understanding of bacterial and host factors important for antibacterial resistance and infection to inform development of new approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat antibacterial-resistant infections.
Continue Reading New RFA Funding Opportunity Available Through NIAID
The MIDAS Network Coordination Center has launched a Flickr account! Continue Reading MIDAS Network Launches Flickr Account
Since early December 2019, 61 new MIDAS members joined, 26 faculty, 30 students, and 5 postdocs from the US and other countries. Continue Reading Over 60 new MIDAS members!
Brent Allman, a fourth-year student at Emory University in the Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution doctoral program, has been named the Laney Graduate School’s 2019-20 Kharen Fulton Diversity Awardee. Continue Reading Brent Allman receives the Kharen Fulton Award
NIAID has established the Emerging Leaders in Data Science Fellowship Program to develop a cadre of talented data scientists who have a strong interest in applying their bioinformatics and data science expertise to advance research on infectious and immune-mediated diseases. Application deadline is February 8, 2020.
Continue Reading Emerging Leaders in Data Science Fellowship
On behalf of the non-profit Outbreak Science, Mike Johansson enlists help to improve the way epidemiological data are shared during outbreaks. Continue Reading Outbreakscience.org enlists help with data sharing
Natalie Dean and Ira Longini from University of Florida talk about the value of a licensed Ebola vaccine and how it relates to their research on a local news station WCJB in Gainesville, FA Continue Reading MIDAS members Natalie Dean and Ira Longini were featured on WCJB in Florida about licensing of the new Ebola rVSV-ZEBOV vaccine
The 16th MIDAS Annual Network Meeting will take place on April 15-17, 2020, in the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Downtown Seattle. The theme will be “Envisioning the future of infectious disease modeling”. Continue Reading MIDAS 2020 dates and location announced