ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

J4, San Jose McEnery Convention Center

8:00 AM

COS 145-1

Transmission of canine rabies and implications for control
Katie Hampson, Princeton University; Jonathan Dushoff, McMaster University; Daniel T. Haydon, University of Glasgow; Sarah, C. Cleaveland, University of Edinburgh; Andy P. Dobson, Princeton University

8:20 AM

COS 145-2

Heterogeneity in disease transmission: Nematodes and tuberculosis in juvenile and adult African buffalo
Anna E. Jolles, Oregon State University; Vanessa O. Ezenwa, University of Georgia

8:40 AM

COS 145-3

Devil of a disease: The impact of Devil Facial Tumour Disease on the demography and population dynamics of Tasmanian devils
Shelly Lachish, University of Queensland; Menna E. Jones, University of Tasmania; Hamish McCallum, University of Tasmania

9:00 AM

COS 145-4

Managing a fatal infectious cancer in a threatened species: Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease
Hamish I. McCallum, Griffith University; Menna E. Jones, University of Tasmania

9:20 AM

COS 145-5

Effects of nematodes on Bovine Tuberculosis in free-ranging African buffalo: Implications for TB dynamics and microparasite invasion
Vanessa O. Ezenwa, University of Georgia; Anna E. Jolles, Oregon State University; Rampal Etienne, University of Groningen

9:40 AM

COS 145-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 145-6

Disease establishment within and among deer social groups: A neighborhood-based modeling approach
Eric M. Schauber, Southern Illinois University; Lene J. Kjaer, Southern Illinois University

10:10 AM

COS 145-7

Effects of fire management on the abundance of Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Missouri Ozarks
Brian F. Allan, University of Illinois

10:30 AM

COS 145-8

Community composition and Lyme disease risk: An update
Kathleen LoGiudice, Union College; Shannon T. Duerr, Cary Institue of Ecosystem Studies; Michael J. Newhouse, Institue of Ecosystem Studies; Kenneth A. Schmidt, Texas Tech University; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

10:50 AM

COS 145-9

Community ecology and disease risk: Squirrels, lizards, and Lyme disease in california
Daniel J. Salkeld, Colorado State University; Jeomhee Mun, University of California - Berkeley; Robert S Lane, University of California - Berkeley

11:10 AM

COS 145-10

Impact of community structure and composition on disease dynamics in wildlife
Benjamin Roche, IRD-UPMC; Jean-Francois Guegan, Génétique & Evolution des Maladies Infectieuses

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