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IMAG/MSM Working Group on Multiscale Modeling and Viral Pandemics Mini Seminars

Jan 6, 2022

Welcome - The meeting will start at 3PM ET

 

NOTE: THE MEETING WILL BE RECORDED, STREAMED AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE�FOR THOSE MEMBERS UNABLE TO ATTEND

Agenda

  1. Welcome
  2. Links, people, other info
  3. Social media links
  4. Quick Announcements
  5. Upcoming Mini-Seminars and Request for Future Speakers
  6. Jeremie Guedj, INSERM, France. Title: Quantifying the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viral load and infectiousness.
  7. na
  8. Request for Further Business

 

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People

Co-Lead: Reinhard Laubenbacher, PhD

Department of Medicine

Laboratory for Systems Medicine

University of Florida

reinhard.laubenbacher@medicine.ufl.edu

Co-Lead: James A. Glazier, PhD

Dept. of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Biocomplexity Institute

Indiana University, Bloomington

jaglazier@gmail.com

Web Administration, Slack: James P. Sluka, PhD

Dept. of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Biocomplexity Institute

Indiana University, Bloomington

jsluka@indiana.edu

Activities Coordination: Bruce G. Shapiro, PhD, PMP

Laboratory for Systems Medicine

University of Florida

bruce.shapiro@medicine.ufl.edu

 

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Please follow the�group on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/MsmViral

If you could re-tweet the weekly announcements �(there are usually two, one for each speaker) �that would help boost attendance and community awareness.

 

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Announcements

Any short (~1 minute) items such as;

  • announcements
  • meetings
  • funding
  • publications
  • requests for help
  • ???

 

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Schedule for Upcoming Meetings and mini-Seminars

Jan 13:

  1. Robert Hester, University of Mississippi Medical Center. Title: Multiscale modeling of Human Physiology.
  2. TBD

Jan 20:

  1. Catherine Beauchemin, Ryerson University.
  2. TBD

Jan 27:

  1. Stacey Smith?, University of Ottawa. Title: Is a COVID-19 Vaccine Likely to Make Things Worse?
  2. TBD

Request for future speakers (Jan 13, …)

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Rules of the Meeting

Please mute your microphone and hold questions until after the presentations

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Mini-SeminarQuantifying the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 �viral load and infectiousness

Jeremie GuedjINSERM, France

The relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viral load and infectiousness is poorly known. Using data from a cohort of cases and high-risk contacts, we reconstructed viral load at the time of contact and inferred the probability of infection. The effect of viral load was larger in household contacts than in non-household contacts, with a transmission probability as large as 48% when the viral load was greater than 1010 copies per mL. The transmission probability peaked at symptom onset, with a mean probability of transmission of 29%, with large individual variations. The model also projects the effects of variants on disease transmission. Based on the current knowledge that viral load is increased by two- to eightfold with variants of concern and assuming no changes in the pattern of contacts across variants, the model predicts that larger viral load levels could lead to a relative increase in the probability of transmission of 24% to 58% in household contacts, and of 15% to 39% in non-household contacts.

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Requests for Input/Suggestions

  

 

We would like the subgroup leads to prepare brief presentations for the Thursday meetings, please let us know when you would like to present

Ideas/help for publicising our Thursday mini-seminars more effectively and for speakers to invite

Suggestions for agenda items and approaches to organizing the Steering Committee Meetings more effectively

There have also been a number of requests for more explicit statements of goals and tasks from the WG leadership, we would appreciate your suggestions

Please contact Reinhard Laubenbacher, James Glazier, James Sluka or Bruce Shapiro with your ideas on all of these issues

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Have you made new research contacts or collaborations based on the Viral Pandemics working group?

  • New collaborations that come out of this working group is an important metric of our success.

  • If you have new collaborations could you let the WG leads know?
    • co-writing a paper?
    • preparing a grant proposal?
    • preparing a teaching or modeling resource?
    • simply extensive discussions?

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Additional Business

 

We ask that everyone sign up for subgroups using the Google Form at

https://forms.gle/Vf6RtapTeXfXLBaq6

People are welcome to post tools and software to IMAG/MSM website, but be careful to be clear that a posting does not include endorsement by NIH

Please register on IMAG/MSM web site https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/index.php/�(Details are on the next slide)

  

 

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Charge to subgroups�(review):

Deliverable: White paper on the subgroup focus areas.�Due date: February 26, 2021

Steps to be taken:

  1. Subgroup lead(s) write one or two paragraphs on the topic of the subgroup and the main problems to be focused on. Due to working group leads: January 17
  2. Email to all subgroup members with this description and call for an initial meeting (if not happened yet) on or before January 26. Bruce can help with address lists and scheduling.
  3. At the initial meeting, discussion of the main topics of a white paper that surveys the subgroup topic and lists major problems and potential solutions.
  4. Subsequently, subgroup leads develop a document based on the meeting with sections for main topics and find leads for each of the sections. Completed by January 29.
  5. Leads for main topics draw on other subgroup members to complete an initial draft by �February 12.
  6. Entire subgroup edits, refines, expands document, including references etc. Final document delivered to working group leads by February 26.

Should be added to the subgroup’s Wiki page

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To register for the MSM�(Multiscale Modeling Consortium):

  1. https://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/index.php/
  2. In the upper right select “LOG IN
  3. Select “Create new account
  4. Select the “To edit the wiki as a MSM member
  5. Fill out the name, email etc. fields
  6. In the “WG Involvement*” box scroll down and select

Multiscale Modeling and Viral Pandemics

  1. In the “MSM funded project title” enter the title for any grants or other funding sources you would like to acknowledge.
  2. MSM Resources” you can leave blank
  3. MSM grant no.” enter the grant number for the project entered in #7. If there is no number enter 000000
  4. Enter project start and end dates, these can be approximate.
  5. The remaining fields are all optional.

If you have any problems please contact JSluka@iu.edu

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Current Subgroup Updates

  • The Drug Development subgroup was left off the initial subgroup joining form (Robert Stratford and Jim Sluka).
    • If anyone is interested in joining this subgroup please email Bruce bruce.shapiro@medicine.ufl.edu

  • We may merge the slack channels for “drug development” and “therapeutics-and-medicine”

  • Merged sub groups:
    • [Integration Within and Across Scales and challenges]
    • [Integration Between Within-host and Population Scales]
    • Now “Integration” LEADS: J Barhak, R Bowness, Y Liu, R Thompson

  • Merged sub groups:
    • [Dissemination, training and outreach to the public, research community and Liaisons]
    • [Health Equity]
    • Leads: T Helikar, B Madamanchi, J Rice

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Subgroup Roll Call and Feedback

Subgroup leads quick check in (subgroup list on next slides):

  • Has your group met yet?
  • Do you have a future meeting schedule set (date of next meeting, if scheduled)?
  • Anything to report?

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Subgroups 1 of 2(28 total subgroups)

Leads Names

Physiological Models

[Innate and Adaptive Immune Response] J Shoemaker, R Datta, V Zarnitsyna, E Schwartz

[Host-pathogen Interactions] Y Liu, J Thakar, W Garira

[Tissue Damage and Recovery] Y Jiang, K Ye

Virus Models

[Viral Transport and Modes of Entry and Barrier Functions] MG Forest

[Viral Replication and Release] J Faeder, P Rangamani, EY Kim

[Viral Evolution] F Adler, A Zilman

Therapeutics and Medicine

[Drug Development] R Stratford

[Vaccine Development] K Ye, E Schwartz

[Modeling individual responses to disease and treatment] G An, E Schwartz, T Mapder

[Modelling Decontamination of Surfaces/Materials] K Kiradjiev

[Machine Learning for Health Monitoring] G Lin, Y Jiang

Individual Organ Systems

[Lungs] Y Jiang

[Heart],[Vasculature] C Lynch

[Kidney and Liver] M Rafailovich, C Mazza, C Mahapatra, C Yedjou

[Comorbidities] J Barhak, G Gonzalez-Parra

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Subgroups 2 of 2

Data

[Experimental and Clinical Data for Model Construction and Validation] S Schnell

[AI-based Data Processing, Heterogeneous Data Fusion] O Gevaert, Y Kevrekidis

[Infection in experimental models including Relationship between in vivo � and in vitro responses and Infection in vivo model organisms] tbd

[Infection in zoonotic reservoir animals and Interspecies Transmission] G An, J Rice, T Mapder

[Coinfection and/or other pathogens] H. Dobrovolny

[Emerging and Reemerging Diseases] A Gumel

Modeling Technology

[Aerosol Transport in Lung, Lymph and Blood] M Tawhai, C Darquenne

[Integration] ** J Barhak, R Bowness, Y Liu, R Thompson

[Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling] SMR Naqvi, J Thakar

[Crowd-sourcing Models] R Laubenbacher, P Macklin

[Model Standards, Credibility, and Annotation] J Barhak, R Sheriff

�Social Issues

[Dissemination, training and outreach to the public, � research community and Liaisons] T Helikar, B Madamanchi, J Rice

[Health Equity] *** B Madamanchi

[Dissemination and Communication to funding agencies] J Glazier, R Laubenbacher

** Merged two groups – � [Integration Within and Across Scales and challenges]

[Integration Between Within-host and Population Scales]

*** Merged

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Please Sign Up For Subgroups!

Subgroup Sign up

We ask that everyone sign up for subgroups using the Google Form at:

https://forms.gle/Vf6RtapTeXfXLBaq6

�The form allows you to join a group and volunteer to lead. If you think subgroups overlap, feel free to sign up for multiple groups. We will likely combine some of the groups based on the number of participants and the number of people common across related groups.

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Discussion of Recruitment of Subgroup Leads, Subgroup Members and WG Members

Procedure for the establishment of new subgroups:

New subgroup proposals should include a brief description of the focus, at least one person who has agreed to lead the subgroup, and a rationale why the proposed subgroup focus is not covered by already existing subgroups.