94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Thursday, August 6, 2009: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Santa Ana, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Gregg Hartvigsen, State University of New York College at Geneseo

1:30 PM

COS 104-1

Wolf network structure affects disease dynamics in Yellowstone
Gregg Hartvigsen, State University of New York College at Geneseo

1:50 PM

COS 104-2

Cholera epidemics and forest fires as critical phenomena
Richard D. Zinck, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Ecological Research - UFZ; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute; Volker Grimm, UFZ, Helmholtz Centre for Ecological Research - UFZ; Menno J. Bouma, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London

2:10 PM

COS 104-3

An age structured model for Sin Nombre hantavirus
Angela D. Luis, Colorado State University; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Penn State University

2:30 PM

COS 104-4

A stage-structured model for spread of pathogens into naive populations
Michael F. Antolin, Colorado State University; Stu Field, Colorado State University; Jennifer Klutsch, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Anna W. Schoettle, Rocky Mountain Research Station; Simon J. Tavener, Colorado State University

2:50 PM

COS 104-5

Mathematical model for infection of juvenile salmon with trematodes
Masami Fujiwara, Texas A&M University; Aaron Greenberg, National Marine Fisheries Service

3:10 PM

COS 104-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 104-6

Measles dynamics on a seasonal and population gradient: implications for vaccination programs in Niger
Matthew J. Ferrari, Penn State University; Nita Bharti, Princeton University; Ali Djibo, Ministry of Health; Rebecca F. Grais, Epicentre; Bryan T. Grenfell, Princeton University; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Penn State University

3:40 PM

COS 104-7

Models with natural immune-boosting help explain pertussis dynamics and changes in age-specific incidence during the vaccination era
Jennie S. Lavine, The Pennsylvania State University; Aaron King, University of Michigan; Sourya Shrestha, University of Michigan; Ottar N. Bjørnstad, The Pennsylvania State University

4:00 PM

COS 104-8

Optimizing reactive responses to outbreaks of immunizing infections: Case management vs vaccination
Petra Klepac, Princeton University; Ottar Bjornstad, Pennsylvania State University; Rebecca F. Grais, Epicentre; Bryan Grenfell, Pennsylvania State University

4:20 PM

COS 104-9

Estimating the duration of pertussis immunity using epidemiological signatures
Helen J. Wearing, University of New Mexico; Pejman Rohani, University of Michigan

4:40 PM

COS 104-10

Maintaining pathogens with short infectivity in seasonally structured tick populations: Relative importance of three transmission pathways
Etsuko Nonaka, Umea University; Gregory D. Ebel, University of New Mexico School of Medicine; Helen J. Wearing, University of New Mexico

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