Understanding how evolution works is an open question in ecological systems. In the last years there has been an effort to understand host-parasite systems. Despite the advances in the field of computational epidemiology, there are many features of the observed viral strains that we cannot understand yet: why are most viruses mild? How does natural selection operate in these systems? How does co-evolution with host emerges? In this talk, I will review a stochastic evolutionary model that displays an emergent trade-off between transmission and virulence by a self-organization mechanism, called «self-evolved criticality». I will show how this self-evolved criticality regulates the virulence of the epidemy, making it mild, and how extensions of this model can give new insights into the field of evolutionary biology.
Conferenciante: Víctor Buendía Ruiz-Azuaga. Departamento de Electromagnetismo y Física de la Materia. Universidad de Granada
Fecha/Hora: Martes 18 de diciembre, 12:00h.
Lugar: Aula de Informática (F6). Departamento de Física de la Materia. Facultad de Ciencias.
