COS 83
Disease And Epidemiology II

Wednesday, August 12, 2015: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
322, Baltimore Convention Center
1:30 PM
 How important are hemoparasites to migratory songbirds? Evaluating physiological trade-offs during migratory stopover
Emily A. Cornelius, University of Wisconsin; Andrew K. Davis, University of Georgia; Sonia Altizer, University of Georgia
1:50 PM
 Using (modular) random graphs to explore the effect of modular contact networks on wildlife disease spread
Pratha Sah, Georgetown University; Shweta Bansal, Georgetown University
2:10 PM
 Using hierarchical, multi-response models to disentangle coexposure and parasite interactions across multiple scales in wetland amphibian communities
William E. Stutz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cheryl J. Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara; Andrew R. Blaustein, Oregon State University; Jason R. Rohr, University of South Florida; Jason T. Hoverman, Purdue University; Pieter T.J. Johnson, University of Colorado
2:30 PM
 The effects of correlation between the first and second scheduled doses of measles vaccine on the maintainability of measles elimination
Amalie McKee, The Pennsylvania State University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University; Matthew J. Ferrari, The Pennsylvania State University
2:50 PM
 The relative impacts of invasive and persistence of a chronic pathogen on bighorn sheep demography, age structure and population growth rate
Kezia Manlove, Washington State University; Frances Cassirer, Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game; Paul Chafee Cross, US Geological Survey; Raina K. Plowright, Montana State University; Peter J. Hudson, Penn State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Characterizing the regional distribution and burden of cholera in Africa: Spatial modeling to guide prevention and control efforts
Sean M. Moore, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Justin Lessler, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Andrew A. Azman, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:40 PM
 Estimating drivers of chikungunya virus transmission and spread in its invasion of the Americas
Alex Perkins, University of Notre Dame; Christopher Barker, University of California, Davis; Bryan Grenfell, Princeton University; Michael Johansson, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Moritz Kramer, University of Oxford; Jessica Metcalf, Princeton University; Robert Reiner, Indiana University; Andrew Tatem, University of Southampton
4:00 PM
 Context matters in disease control
William J. M. Probert, The Pennsylvania State University; Katriona Shea, The Pennsylvania State University; Christopher J. Fonnesbeck, Vanderbilt University; Michael C. Runge, US Geological Survey; Michael J. Tildesley, University of Warwick; Matthew J. Ferrari, The Pennsylvania State University
4:20 PM
 Seasonal activity of the western blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) and human Lyme disease risk in southern California
Andrew J. MacDonald, University of California, Santa Barbara; Cheryl J. Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara
4:40 PM
 Parasite persistence in the environment drives infection dynamics for a butterfly host
Dara A. Satterfield, University of Georgia; Sonia Altizer, University of Georgia; Richard J. Hall, University of Georgia; Mary-Kate Williams, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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