97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

COS 131 - Disease And Epidemiology III

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
D139, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
Asymmetries in dispersal alter coevolutionary trajectories for host resistance and parasite virulence in a metapopulation
Michael G. Buhnerkempe, University of California - Los Angeles; Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University; Mike Boots, University of Exeter
8:20 AM
Disease ecology: New conceptual models to facilitate prediction
Felicia Keesing, Bard College; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
8:40 AM
Ecological roles of parasites in food web structure, animal biomass and secondary production in pond ecosystems
Daniel L. Preston, University of Colorado; Sarah A. Orlofske, University of Colorado at Boulder; John P. McLaughlin, University of California at Santa Barbara; Jason P. Lambden, University of Colorado; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado-Boulder
9:00 AM
Maintenance and transmission of the amphibian pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, during metamorphosis
Catherine L. Searle, University of Michigan; Gisselle Yang Xie, Oregon State University; Andrew R. Blaustein, Oregon State University
9:20 AM
More hosts, more problems: Factors related to the distribution and abundance of a four-host trematode parasite in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA
Ian D. Buller, University of Colorado; Katherine L. D. Richgels, University of Colorado; Sarah A. Orlofske, University of Colorado at Boulder; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado-Boulder
9:40 AM
10:30 AM Cancelled
COS 131-8
Resources of hosts elevate disease in a planktonic host-parasite system (widthdrawn)
Spencer Hall, Indiana University; Claes Becker, Sweco Environment; Rachel M. Penczykowski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan; Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois
10:50 AM
Deer, predators, and the emergence of Lyme disease
Taal Levi, University of California, Santa Cruz
11:10 AM
The population dynamics of pathogens and social groups
Andy Dobson, Princeton University