WP 3

Objective

Adapt network analysis to find novel indicators and sampling strategies to enhance the temporal and spatial scopes of epidemiological surveillance.

Tasks

• Construct networks to formalize the real-life networks through which plant pathogens can spread.
• Use network analysis to describe the salient characteristics and topology of the constructed such as degree distribution, cliques (strongly connected substructures) and small-worldness (balance between local and long-distance connectivity) and relate them to key epidemiological concepts such as the reproductive ratio or the permeability of a landscape.
• Design network-based surveillance strategies under a set of realistic time and labor constraints.

WP3 leader: Davide Martinetti 

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