Speaker
Michael Lässig
(Universität Köln)
Description
The seasonal influenza A virus has been systematically
observed for over 40 years. Coalescent trees spanning this
period can be constructed from influenza sequence data. How
can the underlying evolution of influenza be inferred from
the shape of such trees? In this talk, I show how this
process is shaped by a competition between different viral
strains and by stochastic fluctuations.
