报告题目：Recent work on killing mosquitoes with more mosquitoes

报告人：郑波，广州大学数学与信息科学学院教授

报告时间：2019年10月19日（周六）14:00-16:00

报告地点：数计学院4号楼229报告厅

报告摘要：Dengue fever is the most common mosquito-borne viral disease. A promising control strategy targets the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti by releasing the mosquitoes infected by the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia to invade and replace the wild population. With infection, Wolbachia reduces the mosquito's dengue transmission potential, and brings infected females a reproductive advantage through cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). As Wolbachia often induces fitness costs, it is important to analyze how the reproductive advantage offsets the fitness costs for the success of population replacement. In this talk, I will introduce our mathematical models for the past seven years for Wolbachia spread in mosquito populations. This is a joint work with Prof. Moxun Tang, Prof. Zhiyong Xi from Michigan State University, and Prof. Jianshe Yu from Guangzhou University.

报告人简介：郑波，广州大学数学与信息科学学院教授。近五年来从事生物数学与泛函微分方程的研究，在《Nature》、《SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics》、《Journal of Mathematical Biology》、《中国科学》、《Journal of Theoretical Biology》、《Theoretical Population Biology》等国际国内重要刊物上发表论文10余篇。先后主持国家自然科学基金4项、广州市教育局3项，2014年入选广东省高校优秀青年教师培育对象，2019年获得首届秦元勋青年数学奖，是教育部创新团队“泛函微分方程及相关问题”的骨干成员。