Speakers
Description
The HIV-1 epidemic has been ongoing for over 40 years and has prompted a large interdisciplinary effort involving experimentalists, mathematicians, epidemiologists, and public health officials. Together, these communities have worked not only to understand the virus and its modes of transmission, but also to develop therapies, interventions, and educational strategies aimed at reducing the global HIV-1 burden. Despite this substantial progress, a definitive cure remains elusive. In this session, we examine perspectives on HIV-1 across time and across disciplines within mathematical biology, highlighting how new modeling approaches and emerging experimental data are being integrated to advance our understanding. We aim to encourage discussion of emerging directions in HIV-1 research and mathematical modeling. To support this goal, we have assembled a diverse group of speakers spanning multiple research areas – including epidemiology, viral dynamics, and within-host evolution—and career stages, from graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to established faculty.
