COS 61
Disease And Epidemiology III

Wednesday, August 13, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Regency Blrm C, Hyatt Regency Hotel
8:00 AM
Spatiotemporal variation of childhood disease epidemics spanning the 20th century
Kevin M. Bakker, University of Michigan; Pejman Rohani, University of Michigan
8:20 AM
Ecological interference: A mechanism of pathogen interaction may explain erratic periodicity of whooping cough dynamics
Samit Bhattacharyya, The Pennsylvania State University; Matthew Ferrari, Penn State University; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Pennsylvania State University
8:40 AM
Effects of barley yellow dwarf virus on plant fitness components in perennial switchgrass
Helen M. Alexander, University of Kansas; Carolyn Malmstrom, Michigan State University
9:20 AM
Invasion of an emerging infectious disease, white-nose syndrome, eliminates continental differences in sociality and alters distributional patterns of its hosts
Winifred F. Frick, University of California, Santa Cruz; Sébastien Puechmaille, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology; Barry Nickel, University of California, Santa Cruz; Joseph Hoyt, University of California, Santa Cruz; Kate E. Langwig, Virginia Tech; A. Marm Kilpatrick, University of California, Santa Cruz
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Reconciling seemingly divergent effects of diversity on disease: A metacommunity approach
Maxwell B. Joseph, University of Colorado; Joseph R. Mihaljevic, University of Colorado at Boulder; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado-Boulder
10:10 AM
Linking aggregation patterns to pathogen seroprevalence: Are there multiple ways to be dense and spread disease?
Angela Brennan, Montana State University; Paul Chafee Cross, US Geological Survey; Megan D. Higgs, Montana State University; William H. Edwards, Wyoming Game and Fish Department; Brandon M. Scurlock, Wyoming Game and Fish Department; Scott Creel, Montana State University
10:30 AM
Impacts of a virus resistant transgene on the establishment and spread of powdery mildew in wild squash
Jacquelyn E. Harth, The Pennsylvania State University; Andrew G. Stephenson, The Pennsylvania State University
10:50 AM
Highland malaria moves up in altitude with warmer temperatures
Mauricio Santos-Vega, University of Michigan; Amir Siraj, University of Notre Dame; Menno J. Bouma, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute
11:10 AM
Exotic species and native parasites: Biotic resistance versus parasite spillback
Catherine Searle, University of Michigan; Katherine Hunsberger, University of Michigan; Dylan C. Grippi, University of Michigan; Isabella A. Oleksy, University of Michigan; Clara L. Shaw, University of Michigan; Solanus de la Serna, University of Michigan; Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan
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