Wednesday, August 6, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
202 D, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 69 - Disease Ecology and Epidemiology I
1:30 PMCOS 69-1The feeding and slaughter of elk and bison in the Greater Yellowstone for disease control
Paul Chafee Cross, US Geological Survey
1:50 PMCOS 69-2Seasonal host switching in a vector of eastern equine encephalitis virus
Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena, Auburn University, Micky D. Eubanks, Texas A&M University, Thomas R. Unnasch, University of South Florida, Hassan Kamal Hassan, University of South Florida
2:10 PMCOS 69-3Strong seasonality produces spatial asynchrony in the outbreak of raccoon rabies
Scott M. Duke-Sylvester, Emory University, Leslie A. Real, Emory University
2:30 PMCOS 69-4Chimpanzee infant mortality cycles are self-organized and critical
Peter D. Walsh, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Yasmin Moebius, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Christophe Boesch, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Hjalmar S Kuehl, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2:50 PMCOS 69-5Ecology of avian influenza viruses in the Camargue (South of France)
Camille Lebarbenchon, CNRS/IRD 2724, Chung-Ming Chang, CNRS/IRD 2724, Benjamin Roche, CNRS/IRD 2724, Viviane Granhomme, CNRS/IRD 2724, Yves Kayser, Centre de Recherche de la Tour du Valat, Jean-François Guégan, CNRS/IRD 2724, François Renaud, CNRS/IRD 2724, Sylvie Van der Werf, Institut Pasteur, Frédéric Thomas, CNRS/IRD 2724, Michel Gauthier-Clerc, Centre de Recherche de la Tour du Valat
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 69-6Coexistence through age-structured or temporal niche segregation in Bordetella pertussis and B. parapertussis
Jennie S. Lavine, The Pennsylvania State University, Ottar Bjørnstad, The Pennsylvania State University, Eric Harvill, The Pennsylvania State University, Linda Han, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
3:40 PMCOS 69-7Stress, immunity, and blood parasites in a free-living population of white-crowned sparrows in Colorado
Courtney Murdock, University of Michigan, Matt Dietz, University of Michigan, Michael Romero, Tufts University, Johannes Foufopoulos, University of Michigan
4:00 PMCOS 69-8Eastern fence lizards clean the agent of Lyme borreliosis from blacklegged ticks
Jean I. Tsao, Michigan State University, Sarah H. Hamer, Michigan State University, Russell L. Burke, Hofstra University

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