Marcus Daniels will give a TechTalk today at 3:00 pm at sfX on disease
transmission between deer infected with Bovine Tuberculosis and cattle
in the northern counties of the lower peninsula of Michigan.
Marcus will discuss his work with USDA and the Michigan Wildlife
Service using an extensive dataset developed by the state of Michigan
that tracks harvested deer down to the square mile. His work also used
an agent-based model simulating the activities of several hundred
thousand deer to predict how disease proliferation might be
controlled. In the model, the deer reproduce, move around a home range
of realistic size, and die, at realistic rates for their age and sex.
This allowed the state to estimate the disease risk to cattle in the
vicinity of the simulated sick deer.
Marcus proposes to expand the original study with additional data that
are now available. Anyone interested in participating in this project
or curious about his earlier work is welcome to attend.
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Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
a community studio creating connections across science, technology and
art
624 Agua Fria
Santa Fe, NM 87501
www.sfcomplex.org
505/216.7562
505/670.9432 (cell)
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