COS 41 - Disease Ecology III

Wednesday, August 10, 2016: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Floridian Blrm BC, Ft Lauderdale Convention Center
8:00 AM
Hosts traits and modular species interactions predict dynamical disease outcomes
Alexander T. Strauss, Indiana University; Anna M. Bowling, Indiana University; Carla E. Càceres, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan; Spencer Hall, Indiana University
8:20 AM
Macro-epidemiology of Poliomyelitis transmission across the globe
Navideh Noori, University of Georgia; Pejman Rohani, University of Georgia
8:40 AM
Early-warning signals for emerging and re-emerging disease outbreaks
Tobias S. Brett, University of Georgia; Pejman Rohani, University of Georgia
9:00 AM
Non-vector community members influence pathogen success in an agroecosystem
Paul Chisholm, Washington State University; David Crowder, Washington State University
9:20 AM
Rapid evolution and host population persistence in an amphibian-fungal pathogen system
Catherine L. Searle, Purdue University; Mark R. Christie, Purdue University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Inferring transmission modes and contact networks in a solitary wildlife species
Pratha Sah, Georgetown University; Shweta Bansal, Georgetown University
10:10 AM
Control of emerging infectious diseases: How synchronicity of vector reduction efforts affect the size of Zika virus outbreaks
Samantha R. Schwab, Rutgers University; Agnesa Redere, Rutgers University; Nina H. Fefferman, Rutgers University
10:30 AM
Quantifying heterogeneity in susceptibility and vaccine protection
Kate E. Langwig, Virginia Tech; Andrew Wargo, Virginia Institute of Marine Science; M. Gabriela M. Gomes, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Marc Lipsitch, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10:50 AM
Does parasite transmission mechanism predict effects of urbanization on songbird parasitism?
Rachel E. Hanauer, Indiana University; Abigail M. Brenner, Indiana University; Ellen D. Ketterson, Indiana University
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