Session: Disease And Epidemiology V (2018 ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10))

1:30 PM

COS 80-1

Ecological drivers of wildlife feeding and consequences for parasite transmission
Richard J. Hall, University of Georgia

1:50 PM Cancelled

COS 80-2

Diversity, ecology and epidemiology of Fusarium species in coastal environments and their association with sea turtle nest fouling in Florida (widthdrawn)
Christopher W. Smyth, The Pennsylvania State University; Jullie M. Sarmiento-Ramirez, Spanish National Research Council; Dylan P. Short, The Pennsylvania State University; Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo, Spanish National Research Council; David M. Geiser, The Pennsylvania State University

2:10 PM

COS 80-3

Natural enemy ecology: Assessing the individual and combined effects of predators and pathogens on communities
Turner DeBlieux, Indiana University; Jason T. Hoverman, Purdue University

2:30 PM

COS 80-4

The role of contact structure in the spread of wildlife disease
Clinton B. Leach, Colorado State University; Erin E. Gorsich, Colorado State University; Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University

2:50 PM

COS 80-5

Modeling how temperature-induced variation in the number of infectious mosquito bites affects arboviral reproductive ratios
Amalie McKee, University of New Mexico; Helen J. Wearing, University of New Mexico

3:10 PM

COS 80-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 80-6

Susceptibility to infection and productivity determine the strength of parasite-driven trophic cascades
Jason M. Walsman, Indiana University; Spencer Hall, Indiana University; Paul Orlando, Indiana University

3:40 PM

COS 80-7

Long-lasting individual immunity influences disease-driven population dynamics in mountain yellow legged frogs
Mary Toothman, University of California, Santa Barbara; Mark Wilber, University of California, Santa Barbara; Cheryl J. Briggs, UC Santa Barbara; Roland A. Knapp, Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory, University of California; Jessie Bushell, San Francisco Zoo; Vance T. Vredenburg, San Francisco State University; Adrian Mutlow, San Francisco Zoo; Erica Bree Rosenblum, University of California, Berkeley

4:00 PM

COS 80-8

Killing the young: Predation on less susceptible stages of hosts increases epidemic size
Maja Sljivar, Indiana University; Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan; Spencer Hall, Indiana University

4:20 PM

COS 80-9

Biotic and abiotic drivers of the tick microbiome: implications for pathogen transmission
Andrea Swei, San Francisco State University; Jessica Y. Kwan, San Francisco State University; Betsabel Chicana, University of California, Merced; Caitlin Miller, San Francisco State University; Reid Griggs, UC Dais

4:40 PM

COS 80-10

Varying temperature effects on the growth of the amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Zach Gajewski, Virginia Tech; Leah R. Johnson, Virginia Tech

COS 80 - Disease And Epidemiology V