COS 12 - Disease and Epidemiology I

Monday, August 2, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
412, David L Lawrence Convention Center
Presider:
Eric Schauber, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
1:30 PM
 Severe First & Mild Later: Evolution on multiple traits shaping the ordered expression of malaria var genes
Yael Artzy-Randrup, University of Michigan and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Andy P. Dobson, Princeton University; Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Santa Fe Institute
1:50 PM
 Using Bayesian techniques to estimate the force of infection from serologic data
Alicia M. Ellis, Research & Policy in Infectious Disease Dynamics; Thomas Scott, University of California, Davis; Aaron King, University of Michigan; Amy Morrison, University of California - Davis; Sharon Minnick, UC-Davis; Claudio Rocha, Naval Medical Research Center; Brett Forshey, Naval Medical Research Center; Steven T. Stoddard, University of California, Davis; Kevin Russell, Naval Medical Research Center; James Olson, Naval Medical Research Center; Patrick Blair, Naval Medical Research Center; Douglas Watts, Naval Medical Research Center; Moises Sihuincha, Loreto Regional Reference Laboratory; Tadeusz Kochel, Naval Medical Research Center
2:10 PM
 Disease emergence in a changing world: Ecological dynamics of polio in the US 1910-1980
Micaela E. Martinez-Bakker, University of Michigan; Pejman Rohani, University of Michigan
2:30 PM
 Relative risks of livestock intensification on infectious disease spillover events
Ilana Brito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ruth S. DeFries, Columbia University
2:50 PM
 Exceptions to the rule: Why parasites are not always aggregated
Lien Luong, Pennsylvania State University; Beth Vigliotti, The Penn State University; Daniel A. Grear, Colorado State University; Peter J. Hudson, Penn State University
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Understanding whooping cough transmission among age groups
Lawrence M. Chien, Pennsylvania State University; Jennie S. Lavine, The Pennsylvania State University; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Penn State University
3:40 PM
 Variability in global pertussis dynamics: dynamical regime switching the in prevaccine era
Jennie S. Lavine, The Pennsylvania State University; Aaron King, University of Michigan; Ottar N. Bjornstad, Penn State University
4:00 PM
 Quantifying the effects of space on disease transmission: A Bayesian analysis of smallpox outbreaks in Missions of the Southwest United States
Bret D. Elderd, Louisiana State University; Vanja Dukic, University of Chicago; Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago
4:20 PM
 Contact among white-tailed deer: Effects of landscape and social structure
Eric M. Schauber, Southern Illinois University; Clayton K. Nielsen, Southern Illinois University; Lene J. Kjær, Southern Illinois University; Charles Anderson, Southern Illinois University
4:40 PM
 Transmission dynamics of a vector-borne pathogen: An experimental test
Jennifer M. Koslow, Cornell University; Alison Power, Cornell University; Jasmine S. Peters, Cornell University
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