SMIDDY 2013 was organized by the Theoretical Biology group of the Institute for Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, the Biostatistics division, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, and the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich. The meeting took place at the ETH Zurich on Friday, 13 September 2013.
| 09:30 | Welcome address |
| 09:40 | Dynamics of HIV in the cell in replication and in latency Prof. Dr. Amalio Telenti Institute of Microbiology, University Hospital of Lausanne, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 10:10 | Do protective HLA-B alleles confer partial tolerance against HIV? Dr. Roland Regoes Theoretical Biology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 | The long-term impact of viral load monitoring and tracing patients lost to follow-up on the HIV epidemic: a mathematical modelling study Dr. Jane Estill Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 11:20 | Determinants of viral persistence and clearance during HIV and HCV infections (Slides) Dr. Christian Althaus Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland |
| 11:40 | Pre-existence and emergence of viral drug resistance (Slides) Helen Alexander Theoretical Biology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | On modelling heterogeneity in the acquisition of infectious diseases (Slides) Prof. Dr. Niel Hens Interuniversity Institute of Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics, Hasselt University, Belgium |
| 14:00 | Modelling power-law spread of infectious diseases (Slides) Sebastian Meyer Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 14:20 | Coffee break |
| 14:50 | Recent Developments in Identifying Transmission Routes of Healthcare Associated Infections using Whole Genome Sequence Data (Slides) Dr. Theodore Kypraios Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK |
| 15:20 | Phylogeographic analysis of infectious disease agents based on birth–death processes (Slides) Denise Kühnert Theoretical Biology, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 15:40 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Global Haplotype Reconstruction of HIV-1 (Slides) Francesca Di Giallonardo & Armin Töpfer Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 16:20 | Viral Quasispecies Theory and Deep Sequencing Data David Seifert Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 16:40 | Estimating the dynamics of Plasmodium vivax infections in a cohort of children in Papua New Guinea Dr. Amanda Ross Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel, Switzerland |
| 17:00 | Closing address |
| 17:10 | Apero |