Session: Disease And Epidemiology I (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

8:00 AM

COS 80-1

Malaria population dynamics with superinfection: Critical transitions and responses to forcing
Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute; David Alonso, Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB‐CSIC), Spanish Council for Scientific Research; Yael Artzy, University of Michigan AND Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Andy Dobson, Princeton University

8:20 AM

COS 80-2

Viral sharing in bats and rodents: Viruses may pass more easily between sympatric bat species than sympatric rodent species
Angela D. Luis, Colorado State University

8:40 AM

COS 80-3

Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of rabies exposure in vampire bats: Implications for transmission and control
Daniel G. Streicker, University of Georgia; Julie C. Blackwood, University of Michigan; Sergio Recuenco, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; William Valderrama, Ministry of Agriculture; Jorge Gomez, Ministry of Health; Victor Pacheco, National University of San Marcos; Charles E. Rupprecht, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Pejman Rohani, University of Michigan; Sonia Altizer, University of Georgia

9:00 AM

COS 80-4

Environmental pathogen reservoirs and habitat heterogeneity in a metapopulation
Clinton B. Leach, Colorado State University; Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University; Paul Chafee Cross, US Geological Survey

9:20 AM

COS 80-5

A model for the evolutionary dynamics of receptor binding avidity in influenza A and its effect on antigenic drift
Sean Yuan, Duke University; Katia Koelle, Duke University

9:40 AM

COS 80-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 80-6

Investigating the effects of a ubiquitous endosymbiotic bacteria and its relationship with a threatened butterfly species
Amy M. Truitt, Portland State University

10:10 AM

COS 80-7

Environmental and domestic transmission of antibiotic resistance in community chicken farms in rural Ecuador
Marissa Grossman, Emory University; Karla Vasco, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Lixin Zhang, University of Michigan; William Cevallos, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Gabriel Trueba, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Joseph N.S. Eisenberg, University of Michigan; Karen Levy, Emory University

10:30 AM

COS 80-8

Understanding lyssavirus dynamics in an African fruit bat population
David T. S. Hayman, Massey University

10:50 AM

COS 80-9

Fear, food, and infections: Linking host behaviors to disease transmission in an experimental tadpole system
Jesse Brunner, Washington State University

11:10 AM

COS 80-10

The sad song of the Yosemite toad: The role of the amphibian chytrid fungus in an enigmatic decline
Celeste M. Dodge, San Francisco State University; Vance T. Vredenburg, San Francisco State University

COS 80 - Disease And Epidemiology I