The Center for the Mathematics of Biosystems (VT-CMB) is having a busy summer, full of research, outreach, and activity!  

Summer 2026 activities kicked off with a two-week workshop, May 18-29. Undergraduate students from Virginia Tech and nearby colleges and universities met on VT's campus, 9am-4pm each day, to develop "Quantitative Skills for Modern Bioscience." More information about the annual workshop can be found on VT-CMB's outreach page: https://cmb.science.vt.edu/outreach.html.

Dr. Saucedo giving a presentation at the EEID workshop

The next day, VT-CMB began a pre-conference workshop on the "Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID)." The workshop, which ran May 30-June 1, engaged 17 advanced graduate students and postdocs in the reseach topic of spatial epidemiology. The research trainees participated in  lectures and interactive coding, and ultimately presented group projects.

Q&A panel at EEID conference

As the pre-conference workshop came to a close, the main event commenced. VT-CMB was a sponsor of the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) 2026 Conference, hosted here at Virginia Tech. More than 450 attendees from around the world participated in the conference, which took place June 1-5. VT Math postdoc Kyle Dahlin gave a talk. Several other members of the deparment presented posters: Ben Bruncati (PhD candidate), Nusrat Tabassum (Postdoc), Leah LeJeune (Postdoc), Mahmudul Bari Hridoy (Postdoc), Mohammad Mihrab Uddin Chowdhury (VAP), and Angela Peace (Professor).

A full schedule of conference events can be found here: https://cpe.vt.edu/eeid2026.html.

Dr. Saucedo giving a presentation at the EEID workshop