Date: September, 25th, Tuesday
Time: 11:45 am
Place: Little 339 (the Atrium)
Speaker: Dr. S. Pilyugin


Drinks and Pizza will be provided after the talk

Title:  IMMUNE RESPONSE TO A MALARIA INFECTION: PROPERTIES OF A MATHEMATICAL MODEL

        authored by Dr. P. DeLeenher and Dr. S. Pilyugin


Abstract:

 We establish some properties of a within host mathematical model of
malaria proposed by Recker which includes the role of the immune
system during the infection. The model accounts for the antigenic
variation exhibited by the malaria parasite (P. falciparum). We show that
the model can exhibit a wide variety of dynamical behaviors. We provide criteria for global stability, competitive exclusion, and persistence. We also demonstrate that the disease equilibrium can be
destabilized by non-symmetric cross-reactive responses.
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