Daniele Da Re is a Postdoctoral Researcher, at the University of Trento, Italy. Pachka Hammami is a modeler and epidemiologist specialized in epidemiological models for metapopulations and network dynamics, and currently works at CIRAD (UMR ASTRE), France. During the 2023 MOOD Summer School, these two experts hosted a session that gave a general overview on mechanistic models in epidemiology and for vector borne diseases (VBD) in particular. They gave an introduction to two published models for VBD: ArboCarto and dynamAedes. They also gave a demo on both models, and did a comparison of the predicted mosquitoes population dynamics of the two models.