A PhD position in Theoretical Biology is open in the Research Group for Theoretical Models of Eco-evolutionary Dynamics (https://tecoevo.github.io) at the Max Planck Institute For Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.

Well-motivated and highly-qualified students from all countries are welcome to
apply. A Master of Science degree or a Diploma as well as a strong interest in
Evolutionary Biology and flexibility in the research project are prerequisites. 

The exact project can be decided upon given the mutual interests of the candidate, group and the department. 

Further details about the offer, requirements and method of application can be found https://www.mpg.de/15412368/phd-position

Application deadline: 1st November 2020

Start: Negotiable beginning 2021

Duration: 3 years

For any queries do not hesitate to contact Chaitanya S. Gokhale (gokhale@evolbio.mpg.de)

A PhD position in applied algebra in biology is available under the supervision of Elisenda Feliu at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in algebra related topics, and interest in problems in molecular biology.

Deadline: 15th November 2020
Application form: https://www.math.ku.dk/english/about/jobs/phd-stipends-in-mathematics-2021
Questions about the position can be addressed to efeliu@math.ku.dk

We are seeking for a highly skilled Post-Doc in the field of computational systems biology at the Robert Koch Institute (www.rki.de) in Berlin/Germany.
HIV-1 pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a novel anti-retroviral based strategy to curb HIV infection. The goal of the BMBF-funded project is to establish and refine integrative modelling and simulation tools to estimate the clinical-, as well as epidemiological efficacy of HIV-1 pre-exposure prophylaxis based on in vitro/cellular and explant pharmacological and virological data, together with our collaboration partners in the US, UK, Europe and nationally at the RKI. The specific focus of the post-doc project is to elucidate the mechanisms of action of PrEP in different risk groups (e.g. male vs. female) using stochastic- and hybrid modelling & simulation techniques. The project lies at the interface of systems biology, pharmacology, infectious disease modelling and epidemiology, offers opportunities for academic and intellectual advancement and excellent carrier possibilities.

The position is for up to 5 years under salary scale TV-ÖD E13.

Please apply through the following link: 
https://interamt.de/koop/app/stelle?20&id=623660
(Stellenangebots-ID: "623660", Kennung: "96/20")

If you face any problems with the application process, please contact Christine Steinicke (HR): SteinickeC[at]rki.de

For more information regarding the position, please contact me (Max von Kleist: KleistM@rki.de)

The webinar "Infectious Disease Outbreaks" will be hosted by the University of Bordeaux.  The goal of this series of talks is to present multiple aspects of mathematical modelling to address important problems relevant to infectious disease outbreaks. Such problems can be addressed from many different angles from data, to mathematical models, to simulations and their combinations. COVID-19 pandemic will indeed be one of major topics in this series of lectures. We organize this series of lectures, between France (Europe) and Canada (North America), to bring together mathematicians from both continents. 

The first talk will take place on Thursday October 15 2020: 

9:00-9:45 AM (Eastern time) or 17:00-17:45 (in France) 

Jacques Demongeot (University Grenoble Alpes), Modelling Covid-19 outspread dynamics involving geoclimatic and demographic factors

9:45-10:00 AM  (Eastern time) or 17:45-18:30 (in France) 

Glenn Webb, Vanderbilt University, USA, Predicting the Development of COVID-19 Epidemics from Reported Case Data 

We plan to have one meeting every two weeks, which will consist in two 45-minutes talks given by one speaker from Europe and one speaker from North America. All the information concerning the talks will be given on the webpage https://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~pmagal100p/webinar2020.html  except for the zoom meeting information, which will be communicated by e-mail. 

We would be very pleased to welcome you in the online seminar. If you are willing to attend and wish to keep receiving information about this event, please contact Quentin Griette quentin.griette@u-bordeaux.fr  so that we add you to the mailing list. 

Sincerely yours, 

•  Quentin Griette (Université de Bordeaux) 
• Jane Heffernan (York University) 
• Yvon Maday (Sorbonne Université) 
• Pierre Magal (Université de Bordeaux) 
• Jianhong Wu (York University)

(the organization committee)

PhD position: Funded PhD position on Context-specific factors that drive HIV transmission among men who have sex with men: Modelling the role of behaviours, social and legal factors.

Closing date: 5pm on Monday, 23rd November 2020. 

This Infectious Disease modelling PhD Studentship is via the GW4 BioMed MRC Doctoral Training Programme.

Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk of HIV infection. Behavioural, legal and social factors all contribute to this heightened risk. Epidemiological analysis and modelling will be used to explore the role of context-specific factors (e.g. chemsex in UK, stigma and criminalisation in Africa) in elevating HIV transmission among MSM. We propose to:
1. Utilise data from systematic reviews of how chemsex is associated with HIV transmission and related risk behaviours, to undertake modelling of the potential contribution of chemsex to HIV transmission in a range of HIV epidemics.
2. For contrasting global settings, utilise available epidemiological data to develop and parameterise HIV transmission models to investigate the role of context-specific factors (including chemsex, stigma, history of arrest) in driving HIV transmission among MSM, incorporating their effects on risk behaviours and uptake of prevention and treatment services.
3. Through modelling, assess the impact of different HIV prevention and treatment interventions or structural interventions that may reduce the harms modelled in 2.

Further details on the project and how to apply can be found at: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/context-specific-factors-that-drive-hiv-transmission-among-men-who-have-sex-with-men-modelling-the-role-of-behavioural-social-and-legal-factors/?p124092

For any questions contact Peter Vickerman (peter.vickerman@bristol.ac.uk) or Jack Stone (jack.stone@bristol.ac.uk) 

Student applications can be made via the GW4 BioMed website: https://www.gw4biomed.ac.uk.

Postdoc position: Senior Research Associate in Mathematical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. University of Bristol.

Closing date: 15^th November 2020

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Senior Research Associate to join a research team based within Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School at the University of Bristol.

You will join a collaborative team of mathematical modellers, epidemiologists, and health economists interested in the transmission dynamics of blood borne viruses, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and other infections. Within this group, led by Professor Peter Vickerman, the post will undertake mathematical modelling and epidemiological analyses focussed on prevention and treatment needs for tackling the global epidemic of HIV, HBV and HCV, with a specific focus on high-risk groups such as people who inject drugs in lower, middle and high income settings. Specific settings of interest include Myanmar, Pakistan, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and the USA.  As part of these projects you will be involved in the technical aspect of modelling, epidemiological analyses and possibly economic evaluations, and will collaborate with other modellers, health economists and epidemiologists in this team.

For further information please contact Peter Vickerman (peter.vickerman@bristol.ac.uk) or Hannah Fraser (hannah.fraser@bristol.ac.uk)

Further details  on how to apply are available at: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=76034&nPostingTargetID=198698&option=28&sort=DESC&respnr=5&ID=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&Resultsperpage=10&lg=UK&mask=uobext

International Workshop on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, IWSPA 2020

The organizing committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the first edition of the International Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications (IWSPA 2020), which will take place virtually and online on November 24th and 26th, and December 1st and 3rd using video conferencing tools.

The workshop is organized by the Working Group on “Stochastic Processes and Their Applications” of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research (SEIO). We welcome contributions from all areas of stochastic processes, including, but not limited to birth and death processes, branching processes, diffusion processes, Markovian arrival processes, matrix-analytic methods, random walks in continuous time, renewal theory, space-time processes, and others, as well as their applications in population dynamics, genetics, epidemiology, cancer, cell kinetics, economics, finance, reliability, geophysics, environment, etc.

The program will consist of four 45-minute keynote talks and twenty 30-minute contributed talks.

The keynote speakers and their talks are as follows:

- Some results and applications of geometric counting processes, by Antonio Di Crescenzo, Università degli Studi di Salerno

- Exact approaches for the analysis of stochastic epidemic processes on networks, by Martín López García, University of Leeds

- Epidemics on networks with preventive rewiring, by Frank Ball, University of Nottingham

- Limit theorems, scaling of moments and intermittency for integrated finite variance supOU processes, by Nikolai Leonenko, Cardiff University

Website of IWSPA 2020: blogs.mat.ucm.es/presa/workshop/

International Conference Dynamical Systems in Systems and Synthetic Biology
(DynS^3Bio) . Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (Barcelona).

Organizers

After careful consideration of all available options and in view of the safety and well-being of all participants, a final decision was made to move the date of the 8th European Congress of Mathematics - 8ECM, due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID - 19).

More information:
https://www.8ecm.si
8emc2020@famnit.upr.si

International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications in Science and Engineering – ICMA2SC'21

Porto, Portugal, June 21-25 2021.

The main goal is to bring together researchers in every discipline of applied mathematics, science, engineering, industry, and technology, to discuss the development of new mathematical models, theories, and applications that contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge and practice.

We expect the authors to propose research including topics such as partial and ordinary differential equations, mathematical modeling, integer and fractional order differential equations, linear algebra, numerical analysis, operations research, discrete mathematics, optimization, control, probability, computational mathematics, amongst others.

The conference is designed to maximize the involvement of all participants and will present the state-of-the-art research and the latest achievements.

The webpage of the conference is here:

https://www.isep.ipp.pt/Page/ViewPage/ICMASC

Special Issues (to be updated):

https://www.isep.ipp.pt/Page/ViewPage/ICMASC_papers

Special sessions (to be updated):

https://www.isep.ipp.pt/Page/ViewPage/ICMASC_SS

REGISTRATION (payment after January 1st 2021):

https://www.isep.ipp.pt/Page/ViewPage/ICMASC_regist

DEADLINE for submission - MARCH 31st 2021.