Welcome to IPAK-EDU, Dr. Vanden Bossche!

Geert has joined the IPAK-EDU Faculty and will be teaching Immune Biology of Pandemics and Epidemics starting in January 2023

AMAZING NEWS @ IPAK-EDU - DR. GEERT VANDEN BOSSCHE is teaching "The Immune Biology of Pandemics of Epidemics" weekly starting in January 2023-June 2023.

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Here’s a course description w/topics (Subject to Change), Gift Cards Available!

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Syllabus

Immune biology of pandemics and epidemics

Instructor: Geert Van Den Bossche

This course will focus on the factors that influence the dynamics of epidemics and pandemics, including, but not limited to:

General Factors

• Factors determining the shape and frequency of pandemic waves

• Role of innate immunity in controlling a pandemic

• Infectiousness and virulence of acute self-limiting viral infections or acute self-limiting viral diseases

Public Health Response Factors

• Control of pandemics or epidemics

• The role of asymptomatic infection in viral transmission and control thereof

• Use of vaccines to control outbreaks of viral infections

• Public Health guidance on when to conduct mass vaccination campaigns

Immunological Factors

• Molecular mechanisms of immune pressure exerted on viral infectiousness, neutralizability or virulence

• What is herd immunity and how does a population generate herd immunity?

• The impact of mass vaccination on herd immunity

• ‘Original’ versus ‘conditional’ antigenic sin

• Antibody-Dependent Enhancement

• Differences between natural and vaccine-induced immunity

Evolutionary Factors

• Origin and evolutionary dynamics of natural pandemics/ epidemics

• Factors driving natural selection and immune escape; how to prevent immune escape?

• Key mechanisms of immune evasion

• Mechanisms of immune dampening and immune refocusing and their impact on viral evolutionary dynamics

• Evolutionary and devolutionary immune escape mutations

• Role of breakthrough infections on the evolutionary dynamics of a pandemic

Long-Term Factors

• Immunological interference between distinct viral pandemics/ epidemics

• The impact of trained innate immunity on abrogation of viral transmission

• Pathogenic Priming

• Pandemic preparedness: Factors predisposing to new pandemics/ epidemics and how to mitigate the risk?