Thursday, August 6, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Blrm B, Albuquerque Convention Center
Organizer:
Juliet R. C. Pulliam
Co-organizer:
Andy P. Dobson
Moderator:
F. Ellis McKenzie
Many important diseases of wildlife, domestic animals, and humans rely on biting arthropods for transmission. Unrealistic assumptions regarding vector biology can fundamentally alter our interpretation of vector-borne disease systems with dramatic implications for prediction and control; this symposium emphasizes important generalities, differences, and gaps in knowledge across host-vector-pathogen systems and highlights avenues for reconciling models and data to produce quantitative frameworks for vector-borne disease control.
8:30 AM
Host communities as regulators of vector abundance and disease transmission
Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies;
Jesse Brunner, Washington State University;
Shannon T. K. Duerr, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies;
Mary Killilea, New York University;
Kathleen LoGiudice, Union College;
Kenneth A. Schmidt, Texas Tech University;
Holly Vuong, Rutgers University and Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies;
Felicia Keesing, Bard College
8:55 AM
Vector feeding patterns and the transmission of multi-host pathogens
A. Marm Kilpatrick, University of California, Santa Cruz;
Juliet R. C. Pulliam, University of Florida;
Matthew J. Jones, New York State Department of Health;
Peter Marra, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute;
Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance;
Laura D. Kramer, Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept Health and SUNY Albany
9:55 AM
Inferring epicenters of vector-borne epidemics from vector biology, with an example of Chagas disease in Peru
Michael Z. Levy, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health;
Dylan Small, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania;
Daril A. Vilhena, University of Pennsylvania;
F. Ellis McKenzie, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health;
Juan G. Cornejo del Carpio, Direccion Regional del Minsterio de Salud, Arequipa, Peru;
Eleazar Cordova-Benzaquen, Universidad Nacional San Agustin;
Robert H. Gilman, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health;
Caryn Bern, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Joshua B. Plotkin, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
