COS 155 - Disease And Epidemiology IV

Thursday, August 9, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
D138, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Community ecology and emerging infectious disease: idiosyncracies of local biodiversity
Daniel J. Salkeld, Colorado State University; James Holland Jones, Stanford University
1:50 PM
 Disentangling the role of herd immunity versus novel strain introduction in outbreaks of an infectious disease
Tiffany L. Bogich, Princeton University; Sebastien Ballesteros, Princeton University; Jon Zelner, Princeton University; Hoang Quoc Cuong, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit; Cameron Simmons, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit; Tran Tinh Hien, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit; Eddie Holmes, Penn State University; Jeremy Farrar, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit; Nguyen van Vinh Chau, Hospital for Tropical Diseases; H. Rogier van Doorn, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit; Jane Cardosa, Sentinext Therapeutics; Bryan T. Grenfell, Princeton University
2:10 PM
 Improving disease prediction and modeling through the use of meteorological ensembles: Rainfall and human plague cases in Uganda
Sean M. Moore, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Rebecca J. Eisen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Andrew Monaghan, National Center for Atmospheric Research
2:30 PM
 Sources of heterogeneity and scales of transmission of mosquito-borne pathogens
T. Alex Perkins, Fogarty International Center, NIH; David L. Smith, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Thomas Scott, University of California, Davis
2:50 PM
 Children ailments treated with medicinal plants: Results from a cross-sectional survey within Meherpur district, Bangladesh
Md. Ariful Haque Mollik, Practical Academy on Wise Education and Research Foundation
3:10 PM
3:40 PM
 Simplifying networks: Spread of White-nose syndrome in North America
Andrew M. Kramer, University of Georgia; J. Tomlin Pulliam, University of Georgia; Sean P. Maher, Missouri State University; John M. Drake, University of Georgia
4:00 PM
 Host foraging ecology drives transmission of a fungal parasite of Daphnia
David J. Civitello, University of South Florida; Susan E. Pearsall, Indiana University; Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan; Spencer R. Hall, Indiana University
4:20 PM
 Nutrient enrichment and altered habitat structure increase disease in the plankton
Rachel M. Penczykowski, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jessica L. Hite, Indiana University; Marta S. Shocket, Indiana University; Spencer R. Hall, Indiana University; Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan
4:40 PM
 The effects of community structure on host-pathogen dynamics of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Julia C. Buck, Oregon State University; Katharina I. Scholz, Oregon State University; Andrew R. Blaustein, Oregon State University