COS 34 - Disease And Epidemiology I

Tuesday, August 13, 2019: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
L011/012, Kentucky International Convention Center
Presider:
Patrick A. Clay
1:30 PM
The enemy of my enemy is a parasite: Infection tolerance as a competitive strategy
David Nguyen, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Clay Cressler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1:50 PM
Western pond turtles and shell disease: Uncovering the role of the microbiome in species recovery
Monique S. Hazemi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Angela Kent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:10 PM
Local environmental variation shapes pathogen community composition but does not alter disease burden in a wild plant-pathogen system
Johannah E. Farner, Stanford University; Erin R. Spear, Regis University; Erin Mordecai, Stanford University
2:30 PM
Local and regional dynamics of arboviruses: reconstructing the introduction of Zika and chikungunya viruses into the Americas
Sean M. Moore, University of Notre Dame; James Soda, University of Notre Dame; Benoit Raybaud, Institute for Disease Modeling; Edward Wenger, Institute for Disease Modeling; Alex Perkins, University of Notre Dame
2:50 PM
Do host traits affect viral transmission? Accounting for imperfect detection when exploring individual-level heterogeneity
Anna Sjodin, University of Idaho; Morgan W. Tingley, University of Connecticut; Simon J. Anthony, Columbia University; Michael R. Willig, University of Connecticut
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
The effects of experimental manipulation of predator communities on multiple parasites in prey populations
Robert Richards, University of Georgia; Gail Morris, The Jones Center at Ichauway; Mike Conner, The Jones Center at Ichauway; John M. Drake, University of Georgia; Vanessa O. Ezenwa, N/A
3:40 PM
Amphibian cold tolerance impacted by fungal infection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Spencer R. Siddons, Purdue University; Marin C. Bray, Purdue University; Jeannine L. Toth, Purdue University; Isabel A. Rengifo, Purdue University; Mariah J. Burgmeier, Purdue University; Catherine L. Searle, Purdue University
4:00 PM
Limited conditions promote evolutionary rescue in highly pathogenic host-pathogen systems
Benjamin Golas, Colorado State University; Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University
4:20 PM
The tropical precipitation-diversity relationship: Do fungal pathogens infect more seedlings as precipitation increases?
Valerie R. Milici, University of Connecticut; Robert Bagchi, University of Connecticut
4:40 PM
Inferences about spatial patterns of zoonotic spillover of yellow fever virus are sensitive to assumptions about urban transmission
T. Alex Perkins, University of Notre Dame; Rachel Oidtman, University of Notre Dame; Amir S. Siraj, University of Notre Dame; Anita Lerch, University of Notre Dame; Sean M. Moore, University of Notre Dame
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