Postdoctoral Fellowship: MPS-Ascend: Advancing Mosquito-borne Disease Models with Distributed Delay Equations

博士后奖学金：MPS-Ascend：利用分布式延迟方程推进蚊媒疾病模型

• 批准号: 2316455
• 负责人: Kyle Dahlin
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Dahlin, Kyle Joseph-Marley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2316455&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Fellowship; MPS; Ascend; Advancing

Dr. Kyle Dahlin is awarded a National Science Foundation Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NSF MPS-Ascend) to conduct a program of research, education, and activities related to broadening participation by groups underrepresented in STEM. This fellowship supports the research project entitled "Advancing Mosquito-borne Disease Models with Distributed Delay Equations". The project activities will be conducted at the host institution, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, under the mentorship of Dr. Lauren Childs.Mosquito-borne diseases are one of the greatest challenges faced by humanity, but understanding their drivers is a challenge as transmission involves interactions between three organisms: vector, host and parasite. This project entails developing novel models of mosquito-borne disease transmission to incorporate key biological and ecological processes via three objectives: (i) incorporate realistic mosquito feeding behaviors into mathematical models; (ii) integrate behavioral dynamics into mosquito-host contact models; and (iii) combine these mosquito behaviors into disease transmission models. This work will be conducted in parallel with several broadening participation activities aimed at increasing the participation of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders in STEM, including the development of a calculus curriculum that incorporates topics from traditional Pacific Islander practices of oceanic wayfinding.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

凯尔·达林（Kyle Dahlin）博士被授予国家科学基金会的数学和物理科学，上升博士后研究奖学金（NSF MPS-ASCEND），以进行研究，教育和活动计划，这些计划与STEM中代表性不足的团体扩大参与有关。该奖学金支持题为“具有分布式延迟方程式的蚊子传播疾病模型”的研究项目。该项目活动将在劳伦·克里奇（Lauren Child）博士的指导下在弗吉尼亚理工学院和州大学的东道机构，弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学进行。Mosquito-Borne疾病是人类面临的最大挑战之一，但是理解他们的驾驶员是一个挑战，因为三个生物体之间的互动涉及三种生物体：Vector，Vector，Toctor，Host和Parasite。该项目需要开发新型的蚊子传播模型，以通过三个目标结合关键的生物学和生态过程：（i）将逼真的蚊子喂养行为纳入数学模型； （ii）将行为动力学整合到蚊子宿主接触模型中； （iii）将这些蚊子行为结合到疾病传播模型中。这项工作将与几项旨在增加夏威夷原住民和其他太平洋岛民参与STEM的参与活动并行进行，包括开发一项微积分课程，其中纳入了传统的太平洋岛民实践的主题，从传统的太平洋岛民实践中进行了海洋之路的实践，这是NSF的法定任务，反映了通过评估的构成者的范围，这是由Infectirial构成的构成者的范围。