Monday, August 4, 2008: 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Exhibit Hall CD, Midwest Airlines Center
PS 6 - Disease and Epidemiology
PS 6-87		Using herbarium data to study sunflower rust (Puccinia helianthi) incidence in the sunflower species Helianthus annuus and Helianthus petiolaris Kathryn A. Sparks, University of Kansas, Helen M. Alexander, University of Kansas
PS 6-88		Landscape mediated water quality effects on aquatic community structure and mycobacterial pathogen distribution: Implications for disease ecology of West African waterbodies M. Eric Benbow, Michigan State University, Mollie D. McIntosh, Michigan State University, Heather Williamson, University of Tennessee, Ryan Kimbirauskas, Michigan State University, Stephanie Miller, Michigan State University, Jiaguo Qi, Michigan State University, Richard W. Merritt, Michigan State University, R. Jan Stevenson, Michigan State University, Pamela L.C. Small, University of Tennessee, Daniel Boakye, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Rebecca Kolar, Michigan State University, Charles Quaye, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research
PS 6-89		Investigating the role of host contact in disease transmission using a novel surveillance system Patrick Ely, University of Utah, Jeremy Jones, University of Utah, Sean Laverty, University of Utah, M. Denise Dearing, University of Utah
PS 6-90		Persistence of tick-borne diseases in populations of ticks with seasonally asynchronous life stages Etsuko Nonaka, University of New Mexico
PS 6-91		Growth and survivorship of American chestnut trees in six Michigan populations: Influence of a blight pathogen and hypoviruses Joshua C. Springer, Michigan State University, Anita L. Davelos Baines, The University of Texas - Pan American, Andrew M. Jarosz, Michigan State University
PS 6-92		Pathogen evolution: An agent-based approach to understand the effects of transmission and host population structure Sourya Shrestha, University of Michigan, Aaron A. King, University of Michigan
PS 6-93		Feeding behavior of gypsy moth larvae and its effect on LdNPV transmission Elizabeth P. Eakin, University of Chicago, Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago
PS 6-94		Scaling up: Connecting within host disease dynamics to between host disease dynamics David A. Kennedy, University of Chicago, Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago

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