Dr. Morgan Craig is a Researcher at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Centre and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Université de Montréal. She was a postdoc in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University working with Dr. Alison Hill after receiving her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Université de Montréal. The Quantitative and Translational Medicine Laboratory that she runs focuses on the application and implementation of quantitative approaches, particularly computational biology, to study how heterogeneity impacts on disease and treatment outcomes. Her research focuses on the development of predictive, mechanistic models in a variety of disease contexts, particularly cancers and diseases caused by viruses, to identify pathophysiological mechanisms and tailor therapeutic regimens according to patient-specific characteristics. Dr. Craig’s research is highly multidisciplinary and is conducted in close collaboration with experimentalists and clinicians.

Michel Delfour is a Guggenheim, Killam, and SIAM Fellow and was awarded the Urgel-Archambault Prize for Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering from ACFAS. His research interests are: optimization and design of shapes and geometries, analysis and control of ordinary, delay, and partial differential systems, control and stabilization of large space structures, numerical methods in differential equations and optimization. His recent interests include the frequency assignment methods to land mobiles, the modelling and control of thin and asymptotic shells, the design of endoprotheses in interventional cardiology, and the design of the dynamics of drug release. He is the author of 13 books and more than 175 papers.

He has been president of the Canadian Mathematical Society and has served on numerous Canadian granting and advisory committees, as well as on panels,  boards, and executive committees of international organizations. He has been a professional engineer (Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec) since 1966 and has been involved in numerous consulting activities for Canadian organizations.

I am a mathematical and computational biologist with a broad interest in evolutionary biology. I have worked on a diverse array of topics, including social evolution, host-pathogen (co)-evolution, and evolutionary conflict. Recently, my research focus has been on the evolution of infectious diseases. Pathogens adapt rapidly to drugs and vaccines and a better understanding of the evolutionary epidemiology of infectious diseases raises many theoretical challenges and has important public health applications.