Session: Disease and Epidemiology (93rd ESA Annual Meeting (August 3 -- August 8, 2008))

Monday, August 4, 2008: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Exhibit Hall CD, Midwest Airlines Center

PS 6-87

Using herbarium data to study sunflower rust (Puccinia helianthi) incidence in the sunflower species Helianthus annuus and Helianthus petiolaris
Kathryn A. Sparks, University of Kansas; Helen M. Alexander, University of Kansas

PS 6-88

Landscape mediated water quality effects on aquatic community structure and mycobacterial pathogen distribution: Implications for disease ecology of West African waterbodies
M. Eric Benbow, University of Dayton; Mollie D. McIntosh, Michigan State University; Heather Williamson, University of Tennessee; Ryan Kimbirauskas, Michigan State University; Stephanie Miller, Michigan State University; Jiaguo Qi, Michigan State University; Richard W. Merritt, Michigan State University; R. Jan Stevenson, Michigan State University; Pamela L.C. Small, University of Tennessee; Daniel Boakye, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research; Rebecca Kolar, Michigan State University; Charles Quaye, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research

PS 6-89

Investigating the role of host contact in disease transmission using a novel surveillance system
Patrick Ely, University of Utah; Jeremy Jones, University of Utah; Sean Laverty, University of Utah; M. Denise Dearing, University of Utah

PS 6-90

Persistence of tick-borne diseases in populations of ticks with seasonally asynchronous life stages
Etsuko Nonaka, Umea University

PS 6-91

Growth and survivorship of American chestnut trees in six Michigan populations: Influence of a blight pathogen and hypoviruses
Joshua C. Springer, Michigan State University; Anita L. Davelos Baines, The University of Texas - Pan American; Andrew M. Jarosz, Michigan State University

PS 6-92

Pathogen evolution: An agent-based approach to understand the effects of transmission and host population structure
Sourya Shrestha, University of Michigan; Aaron A. King, University of Michigan

PS 6-93

Feeding behavior of gypsy moth larvae and its effect on LdNPV transmission
Elizabeth P. Eakin, University of Chicago; Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago

PS 6-94

Scaling up: Connecting within host disease dynamics to between host disease dynamics
David A. Kennedy, University of Chicago; Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago

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