95th ESA Annual Meeting (August 1 -- 6, 2010)

Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

411, David L Lawrence Convention Center

Presider:

Ellen M. Mackey, MWD of So. Cal. and Council for Watershed Health

8:00 AM

COS 56-1

Species extinction vs. ecosystem transformation with forest disease: Sudden Oak Death in California
Richard C. Cobb, University of Califorina Davis; Joao A. N. Filipe, University of Cambridge; Ross K. Meentemeyer, North Carolina State University; Christopher A. Gilligan, Unvirsity of Cambridge; David M. Rizzo, University of California, Davis

8:20 AM

COS 56-2

Investigating mercury in bottlenose dolphin skin: What we have learned and where we go from here
Debra L. Miller, Center for Wildlife Health, Dept of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries, Univ Knoxville, TN; Victoria M. Woshner, Private Contractor; Matthew J. Gray, University of Tennessee; Eloise L. Styer, University of Georgia; Katrina K. Knott, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Randall S. Wells, Chicago Zoological Society; Todd M. O'Hara, University of Alaska Fairbanks

8:40 AM

COS 56-3

Vector behavior and pathogen spread: Implications of host resistance versus tolerance
Matthew P. Daugherty, University of California, Riverside

9:00 AM

COS 56-4

The role of immune mediated co-infections on disease transmission
Isabella M. Cattadori, Penn State University; Ash Pathak, The Pennsylvania State University; Lisa Murphy, University of Glasgow

9:20 AM

COS 56-5

Within host ecology: The evolution of drug resistance in malarial parasites in immunosuppressed hosts
Edward P. Levri, Penn State Altoona; Victoria Barclay, The Pennsylvania State University; Sylvie Huijben, The Pennsylvania State University; Derek Sim, The Pennsylvania State University; Andrew F. Read, Penn State University

9:40 AM

COS 56-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 56-6

Multimodal epidemics in multihost pathogens
Krisztian Magori, Auburn University; Chris Michael, Brookwood High School; John M. Drake, University of Georgia

10:10 AM

COS 56-7

Male-biased transmission of a trophically-transmitted nematode parasite
Daniel A. Grear, Colorado State University; Lien Luong, Pennsylvania State University; Peter J. Hudson, Penn State University

10:30 AM

COS 56-8

Modeling viral and bacterial biological control of the gypsy moth
James R. Reilly, Rutgers University; Bret D. Elderd, Louisiana State University

10:50 AM

COS 56-9

Does variation in host immune function explain differences in reservoir competence among small mammals?
M. Andrea Previtali, Universidad Nacional del Litoral; Rhea Hanselmann, Oregon State University; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Felicia Keesing, Bard College; Anna E. Jolles, Oregon State University; Lynn B. Martin, University of South Florida

11:10 AM

COS 56-10

Genotypic diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi detected in Ixodes scapularis larvae collected from North American songbirds
R. Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond; Corrine Folsom, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine; Stephen J. Bent, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine; Kimberly Tsao, Colorado State University; Durland Fish, Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine; Maria Diuk-Wasser, Columbia University

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