Thursday, August 9, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
J1, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
COS 103 - Disease ecology: Models and human disease
8:00 AMCOS 103-1Globalization and the spread of pathogens
A. Marm Kilpatrick, The Consortium for Conservation Medicine, Aleksei Chmura, The Consortium for Conservation Medicine, David Gibbons, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Robert Fleischer, Smithsonian Institution, Peter Marra, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Peter Daszak, The Consortium for Conservation Medicine
8:20 AMCOS 103-2Globalization of human infectious disease
Katherine F. Smith, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia,, Dov F. Sax, Brown University, Steven D. Gaines, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara,, Vanina Guernier, Unité 707 INSERM, Jean-Francois Guegan, Génétique & Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses
8:40 AMCOS 103-3Demographic and social underpinnings of transmission: Host movement and disease dynamics
Nita Bharti, Penn State University, Yingcun Xia, National University of Singapore, Ottar N Bjornstad, Penn State University, Matthew J Ferrari, Penn State University, Rebecca F. Grais, Medecis Sans Frontieres, Bryan T Grenfell, Penn State University
9:00 AMCOS 103-4New insights into cholera dynamics: Rapid loss of immunity, transmission mode, and climate drivers
Aaron A. King, University of Michigan, Edward L. Ionides, University of Michigan
9:20 AMCOS 103-5Spatial clustering in the spatio-temporal dynamics of endemic cholera
Diego H. Ruiz-Moreno, University of Michigan, Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan, Michael Emch, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA, Mohammad Yunus, ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 103-6Estimating the importance of zoonotic reservoir hosts in pathogen transmission
Jesse Brunner, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Richard S Ostfeld, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
10:10 AMCOS 103-7Social marginalization and forest destruction in the spatio-temporal patterns of a vector-borne disease
Luis Fernando Chaves, University of Michigan, Justin M. Cohen, University of Michigan, Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan, Mark L. Wilson, University of Michigan
10:30 AMCOS 103-8Metapopulation on the edge of chaos: Measles persistence in the Sahel
Matthew Ferrari, Penn State University, Bryan Grenfell, Penn State University, Ottar N. Bjornstad, Penn State University, Nita Bharti, Penn State University, Rebecca F. Grais, Medecis Sans Frontieres
10:50 AMCOS 103-9Nipah Virus in Peninsular Malaysia: Process of emergence and risk of re-emergence
Juliet R. C. Pulliam, Princeton University, Jonathan H. Epstein, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, Jonathan Dushoff, Princeton University, Hume E. Field, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Andrew P. Dobson, Princeton University, Peter Daszak, The Consortium for Conservation Medicine
11:10 AMCOS 103-10Dynamics of infectious diseases and pulse vaccination: Teasing apart the embedded resonances effects
Marc Choisy, Génétique & Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses, Jean-Francois Guegan, Génétique & Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses, Pejman Rohani, Institute of Ecology

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