COS 80 - Disease And Epidemiology I

Wednesday, August 8, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
D137, Oregon Convention Center
8:00 AM
 Malaria population dynamics with superinfection: Critical transitions and responses to forcing
Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute; David Alonso, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas; Yael Artzy, University of Michigan AND Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Andy Dobson, Princeton University
8:40 AM
 Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of rabies exposure in vampire bats: Implications for transmission and control
Daniel G. Streicker, University of Georgia; Julie C. Blackwood, University of Michigan; Sergio Recuenco, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; William Valderrama, Ministry of Agriculture; Jorge Gomez, Ministry of Health; Victor Pacheco, National University of San Marcos; Charles E. Rupprecht, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Pejman Rohani, University of Michigan; Sonia Altizer, University of Georgia
9:00 AM
 Environmental pathogen reservoirs and habitat heterogeneity in a metapopulation
Clinton B. Leach, Colorado State University; Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University; Paul Chafee Cross, US Geological Survey
9:40 AM
10:10 AM
 Environmental and domestic transmission of antibiotic resistance in community chicken farms in rural Ecuador
Marissa Grossman, Emory University; Karla Vasco, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Lixin Zhang, University of Michigan; William Cevallos, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Gabriel Trueba, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Joseph N.S. Eisenberg, University of Michigan; Karen Levy, Emory University
11:10 AM
 The sad song of the Yosemite toad: The role of the amphibian chytrid fungus in an enigmatic decline
Celeste M. Dodge, San Francisco State University; Vance T. Vredenburg, San Francisco State University