Session: Disease ecology: Models and human disease (ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007))

8:00 AM

Globalization and the spread of pathogens
A. Marm Kilpatrick, University of California, Santa Cruz; Aleksei Chmura, The Consortium for Conservation Medicine; David Gibbons, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Robert Fleischer, National Zoological Park; Peter Marra, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance

8:20 AM

COS 103-2

Globalization of human infectious disease
Katherine F. Smith, Brown University; Dov F. Sax, Brown University; Steven D. Gaines, University of California, Santa Barbara; Vanina Guernier, Unité 707 INSERM; Jean-Francois Guegan, Génétique & Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses

8:40 AM

COS 103-3

Demographic and social underpinnings of transmission: Host movement and disease dynamics
Nita Bharti, Princeton University; Yingcun Xia, National University of Singapore; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew J. Ferrari, Penn State University; Rebecca F. Grais, Epicentre; Bryan T. Grenfell, Princeton University

9:00 AM

COS 103-4

New insights into cholera dynamics: Rapid loss of immunity, transmission mode, and climate drivers
Aaron A. King, University of Michigan; Edward L. Ionides, University of Michigan

9:20 AM

COS 103-5

Spatial clustering in the spatio-temporal dynamics of endemic cholera
Diego H. Ruiz-Moreno, University of Michigan; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute; Michael Emch, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA; Mohammad Yunus, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

9:40 AM

COS 103-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 103-6

Estimating the importance of zoonotic reservoir hosts in pathogen transmission
Jesse Brunner, Washington State University; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

10:10 AM

COS 103-7

Social marginalization and forest destruction in the spatio-temporal patterns of a vector-borne disease
Luis Fernando Chaves, Emory University; Justin M. Cohen, University of Michigan; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute; Mark L. Wilson, University of Michigan

10:30 AM

COS 103-8

Metapopulation on the edge of chaos: Measles persistence in the Sahel
Matthew Ferrari, Penn State University; Bryan Grenfell, Pennsylvania State University; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Pennsylvania State University; Nita Bharti, Princeton University; Rebecca F. Grais, Epicentre

10:50 AM

COS 103-9

Nipah Virus in Peninsular Malaysia: Process of emergence and risk of re-emergence
Juliet R. C. Pulliam, University of Florida; Jonathan H. Epstein, Consortium for Conservation Medicine; Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University; Hume E. Field, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries; Andrew P. Dobson, Princeton University; Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance

11:10 AM

COS 103-10

Dynamics of infectious diseases and pulse vaccination: Teasing apart the embedded resonances effects
Marc Choisy, Génétique & Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses; Jean-Francois Guegan, Génétique & Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses; Pejman Rohani, University of Michigan

COS 103 - Disease ecology: Models and human disease