Session: Disease and Epidemiology I (96th ESA Annual Meeting (August 7 -- 12, 2011))

1:30 PM

COS 12-1

The influence of host movement on epidemic dynamics: Commuting patterns in cities and their consequences for the spread of influenza
Benjamin D. Dalziel, Cornell University; Stephen Ellner, Cornell University

1:50 PM

COS 12-2

Statistical prediction of West Nile Virus transmission intensity in New York City
Sarah E. Bowden, University of Georgia; John M. Drake, University of Georgia; Krisztian Magori, Eastern Washington University; Waheed Bajwa, New York Department of Health

2:10 PM

COS 12-3

A probablistic model of spatio-temporal disease dynamics: Urban cholera in Dhaka
Robert C. Reiner Jr., University of California, Davis; Aaron A. King, University of Michigan; Michael Emch, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA; Mohammad Yunus, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; A. S. G. Faruque, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B); Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute

2:30 PM

COS 12-4

Age-specific measles transmission in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for reactive vaccination
Matthew J. Ferrari, Penn State University; Rebecca F. Grais, Epicentre

2:50 PM

COS 12-5

Synthesizing epidemiological and economic optima for control of immunizing infections
Petra Klepac, Princeton University; Ramanan Laxminarayan, Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy; Bryan T. Grenfell, Princeton University

3:10 PM

COS 12-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 12-6

Comparing the effects direct and indirect pathogen transmission have on epidemic time series
Michael Cortez, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joshua S. Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology

3:40 PM

COS 12-7

Mechanisms of intra- and interspecific transmission of a newly discovered pathogen: Hemoplasma in felids
Scott S. Carver, University of Tasmania; Sue VandeWoude, Colorado State University; Kevin R. Crooks, Colorado State University; Michael Lappin, Colorado State University

4:00 PM

COS 12-8

Modeling host-disease dynamics of bovine tuberculosis in lions in Kruger National Park
Margaret Kosmala, Harvard University; Philip S. Miller, IUCN Species Survival Commission; Douglas Armstrong, Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo; Roy Bengis, Department of Agriculture; Peter Buss, South Africa National Parks; Brenda Daly, Conservation Breeding Specialist Group Southern Africa; Sam Ferreira, South Africa National Parks; Paul Funston, Tshwane University of Technology; Markus Hofmeyr, South Africa National Parks; Dewald Keet, Department of Agriculture; Craig Packer, University of Minnesota; John P. Pollack, Cornell University

4:20 PM

COS 12-9

Healthy herds and peaked packs: How infection alters inducible defenses against predators
Maya Groner, Virginia Institute of Marine Science; Rick A. Relyea, University of Pittsburgh

4:40 PM

COS 12-10

The effect of gypsy moth larval feeding behavior on the transmission of LdNPV
Libby Eakin, University of Chicago; Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago

COS 12 - Disease and Epidemiology I