COS 44
Disease And Epidemiology II

Tuesday, August 12, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Regency Blrm E, Hyatt Regency Hotel
1:30 PM
Seasonal abundance of Anopheles mosquitoes and their association with meteorological factors and malaria incidence in Bangladesh
Kabirul Bashar, Jahangirnagar University; Nobuko Tuno, Kanazawa University; Asaduzzaman ., Jahangirnagar University
1:50 PM
Implications of post white-nose syndrome survival on population viability of little brown bats
Brooke Maslo, Rutgers University; Mick Valent, New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife; John F. Gumbs, BATS Research Center; Winifred F. Frick, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:10 PM
Host abundance thresholds to pathogen invasion in a Daphnia-microparasite system
Tad A. Dallas, University of Georgia; John M. Drake, University of Georgia
2:30 PM
Climate and immunity as drivers of interannual variability of human West Nile vrus cases
Sara H. Paull, University of California Santa Cruz; D.E. Horton, Stanford; N.S. Diffenbaugh, Stanford; A. Marm Kilpatrick, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:50 PM
Prion amplification and hierarchical Bayesian modeling refine detection and prevalence estimates of chronic wasting disease in a free-ranging elk population
A. Christy Wyckoff, Colorado State University; Nathan Galloway, Colorado State University; Crystal Meyerett-Reid, Colorado State University; Jenny Powers, National Park Service; Terry Spraker, Colorado State University; Ryan Monello, National Park Service; Bruce Pulford, Colorado State University; Margaret Wild, National Park Service; Michael Antolin, Colorado State University; Kurt VerCauteren, National Wildlife Research Center-USDA; Mark Zabel, Colorado State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
How a multi-host pathogen is affected by the trophic structure of its host community?
Elsa Canard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientique; Benjamin Roche, IRD-UPMC; Andres Garchitorena, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement; Aaron Morris, University of Bournemouth; Laurent Marsollier, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale; Rodolphe E. Gozlan, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle; Jean-François Guégan, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement de Montpellier
3:40 PM
The impact of abiotic parameters and host community structure on a multi-host pathogen: the case of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Cameroon
Andres Garchitorena, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement; Benjamin Roche, IRD-UPMC; Sara Eyangoh, Centre Pasteur du Cameroun; Laurent Marsollier, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale; Jean-François Guégan, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement de Montpellier
4:00 PM
Experimental evolution of viral strains in response to coinfection
Katherine M. Marchetto, Cornell University; Anna M. Stapelfeldt, Cornell University; Alison G. Power, Cornell University
4:20 PM
Competition within susceptible hosts drives differential transmission of pathogen genotypes
G. Kai Blaisdell, University of California, Berkeley; Siming Zhang, University of California, Berkeley; Kent M. Daane, University of California, Berkeley; Monica L. Cooper, UC Cooperative Extension; Rodrigo P. Almeida, University of California, Berkeley
4:40 PM
Epidemiological modeling for the assessment of bovine tuberculosis surveillance in the dairy farm network in Emilia-Romagna (Italy)
Gianluigi Rossi, Università di Parma; Giulio DeLeo, Stanford University; Stefano Pongolini, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia-Romagna; Stefano Natalini, Regione Emilia-Romagna; Simone Vincenzi, University of California Santa Cruz; Luca Bolzoni, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia-Romagna
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