Projectgroup Ecological Epidemiology - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Project Group

Ecological Epidemiology

"Epidemiology is the ecology of infectious diseases" (Dobson&Grenfel 1995)

EcoEpi Publications

EcoEpi Partners

Podcast MDR: EcoEpi Modelle im Einsatz gegen die Afrikanische Schweinepest beim Wildschwein (2020)

EcoEpi Researchers' Statement on African swine fever in wild boar.

Press release. EFSA report on ASF in wild boar.

Research systems

SwiFCoIBM: Swine Fever & Co in an Individual-Based Model. Modelling infectious disease control in wild boar (ASF, CSF, FMD)

sick-bees: Modelling pollinators and pathogens in different landscapes

FarmECS: Modelling cattle diseases in large populations (BVD, IBR)

IRIS: Modelling local and global tick population under climate projection scenarios

EcoEpi today

Jakob Jeuk - Trainee, ASF in Saxony

Jonas Brock - (PhD Thesis) IBR model

Henning Nolzen - HICAM tick model

Adam Reichold - Voodoo Pollinator Model

Martin Lange - Swine Fever Control Model; BVD Model

Hans-Hermann Thulke - EcoEpi Lab

EcoEpi Allumni

Deborah Wolf, ASF modelling

Laura Meier, ASF modelling; UFZ

Julia Schmid, theoretic epidemiology; UFZ

Enrique Sulbaran-Romero, Chagas epidemiology; Bell Flavors & Fragrances

Henning Siemen, ASF; BfR

Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, CSF modelling; IZW Leibniz Inst Zoo & Wildlife Res, Berlin

Nestor Fernandez, CSF modelling; iDiv, Leipzig

Katrin Meyer, plant behaviour; Ecosystem Modelling, Georg-August-University of Göttingen

Finn Bastiansen, fox tapeworm modelling; RIFCON GmbH

Gideon Wasserberg, modelling Leishmania in gerbils; Uni of North Carolina at Greensboro

Frank Hansen & Dirk Eisinger

German Media References

- African Swine Fever (ASF) in wild boar

MDR online: EcoEpi Modelle im Einsatz gegen die Afrikanische Schweinepest beim Wildschwein (2020)

Online Artikel: Afrikanische Schweinepest bedroht die Fleischindustrie (2014)

- Barbary defence behaviour (plant intelligence)

ARD Wissenschaftsfeature zu "Bekämpfungsentscheidungen" der Berberitze (Berberis vulgaris) nach Meyer et al. 2014 Am Nat. 183: 376-383

- Classical Swine Fever (CSF) in wild boar

"Offensive gegen die Schweinepest" von Kerstin Viering (Berliner Zeitung 31.03.2009)

UFZ_Newsletter_maerz09_web_.pdf (1.6 MB)
"Kampf dem Virus" (Newsletter UFZ; März 2009; special thanks to Jürgen Teuffert, Petra Kranz & Christoph Staubach - FLI Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Wusterhausen)

"Schweinepest verstehen, dann bekämpfen!" (Zentralverband der Deutschen Schweineproduktion e.V. - ZDS)

- Rabies in Foxes

"Tollwut im Computer - Simulationen bilden Ökosysteme nach" von Roland Knauer (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 09.11.2001)

- Small Fox Tapeworm

"Computer gegen den Killerwurm" von Drago Bock (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung 09.03.2002)

"Krieg dem Wurm. Computer gegen Parasiten" von Mario Ulbrich (Freie Presse 10.09.2001)

EcoEpi News

Latest output: Jonas Brock et al. A large-scale epidemiological model of BoHV-1 spread in the Irish cattle population to support decision-making in conformity with the European Animal Health Law. Pre Vet Med 192:105375.

--> Editors Choice July 2021

Jakob Jeuk won the first price for young presenters at the International DACh-Meeting of DVG in Bern (Switzerland) for his talk about ASF spread in wild boar of the Bundesland Sachsen and the investigation of mitigation vs. control measures.

EcoEpi contributions to the international epidemiological DACh Meeting 2021 in Bern (Switzerland) held on September 1st-3rd (Programme):

The fifth EcoEpi contribution to EFSA's output in response to EU Commission mandates on wild boar health covers the problem of exiting the restricted status of a region after ASF virus was spreading in the species.

Martin Lange speaks about the EcoEpi model of African swine fever in wild boar in an MDR Interview - listen the Radio-Podcast.

EcoEpi research in media. German broadcast provided a science feature about research on decision making in parasitised barbery plants (Berberis vulgaris) published in 2014 (Meyer et al. Am Nat. 183: 376-383). Unfortunately this brilliant science cast is no longer public due to the new German PR law.

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