Session: SYMP 17 - How Does Having a Vector Matter? Perspectives on Vector Biology and Disease Ecology for Prediction and Control of Emerging Infections


Thursday, August 6, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Blrm B, Albuquerque Convention Center
SYMP 17 - How Does Having a Vector Matter? Perspectives on Vector Biology and Disease Ecology for Prediction and Control of Emerging Infections
Many important diseases of wildlife, domestic animals, and humans rely on biting arthropods for transmission. Unrealistic assumptions regarding vector biology can fundamentally alter our interpretation of vector-borne disease systems with dramatic implications for prediction and control; this symposium emphasizes important generalities, differences, and gaps in knowledge across host-vector-pathogen systems and highlights avenues for reconciling models and data to produce quantitative frameworks for vector-borne disease control.
Organizer:	Juliet R. C. Pulliam, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
Co-organizer:	Andy P. Dobson, Princeton University
Moderator:	F. Ellis McKenzie, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
8:00 AM		Introductory Remarks
8:05 AM	SYMP 17-1	The buzzing in my ear: Mosquito biology and the dynamics of disease transmission David L. Smith, University of Florida
8:30 AM	SYMP 17-2	Host communities as regulators of vector abundance and disease transmission Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Jesse Brunner, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Shannon T. K. Duerr, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Mary Killilea, New York University, Kathleen LoGiudice, Union College, Kenneth A. Schmidt, Texas Tech University, Holly Vuong, Rutgers University and Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Felicia Keesing, Bard College
8:55 AM	SYMP 17-3	Vector feeding patterns and the transmission of multi-host pathogens A. Marm Kilpatrick, University of California, Santa Cruz, Juliet R. C. Pulliam, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Matthew J. Jones, New York State Department of Health, Peter Marra, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Peter Daszak, The Consortium for Conservation Medicine, Laura D. Kramer, Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept Health and SUNY Albany
9:20 AM	SYMP 17-4	Modeling vector biology to decipher mechanisms of plague maintenance in wild hosts Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University
9:45 AM		Break
9:55 AM	SYMP 17-5	Inferring epicenters of vector-borne epidemics from vector biology, with an example of Chagas disease in Peru Michael Z. Levy, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Dylan Small, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Daril A. Vilhena, University of Pennsylvania, F. Ellis McKenzie, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Juan G. Cornejo del Carpio, Direccion Regional del Minsterio de Salud, Arequipa, Peru, Eleazar Cordova-Benzaquen, Universidad Nacional San Agustin, Robert H. Gilman, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Caryn Bern, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Joshua B. Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania
10:20 AM	SYMP 17-6	Effects of climate on key entomological parameters determining R₀ Matthew B. Thomas, Penn State University, Krijn P. Paaijmans, Penn State University, Simon Blanford, Penn State University, Andrew F. Read, Penn State University
10:45 AM	SYMP 17-7	Semifield systems for the study of vector ecology Heather Ferguson, University of Glasgow
11:10 AM		Panel Discussion

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