COS 96 - Disease and Epidemiology III

Thursday, August 11, 2011: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
10B, Austin Convention Center
8:00 AM
Climate variability and the seasonality of Lyme Disease
Sean M. Moore, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Rebecca J. Eisen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Paul Mead, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
8:20 AM
The dual role of lizards in Lyme disease ecology in the far-western United States
Andrea Swei, San Francisco State University; Cheryl J. Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara; Robert S. Lane, University of California - Berkeley; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
8:40 AM
The effect of epidemiological model structure on patterns of viral diversity
Katia Koelle, Duke University; David A. Rasmussen, Duke University
9:00 AM
Modeling to evaluate management strategies for Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease
Hamish I. McCallum, Griffith University; Menna E. Jones, University of Tasmania; Nick Beeton, University of Tasmania; Rodrigo K. Hamede, University of Tasmania; James D. Bashford, University of Tasmania
9:20 AM
Reduced impact of Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease at the current disease front
Menna E. Jones, University of Tasmania; Rodrigo K. Hamede, University of Tasmania; Alexandre Kreiss, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania; Katherine Belov, The University of Sydney; Anne-Maree Pearse, Tasmanian State Government; Hamish I. McCallum, Griffith University
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
The ecology of an emerging tick-borne pathogen, Babesia microti: How host quality affects disease risk
Michelle H. Hersh, Eastern Michigan University; Michael Tibbetts, Bard College; Mia Strauss, Bard College; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies; Felicia Keesing, Bard College
10:10 AM
Tick accumulation on vertebrate hosts: Differential susceptibility or just bad luck?
Justin M. Calabrese, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoological Park; Jesse Brunner, Washington State University; Richard S. Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
10:50 AM
Effects of elevated CO2 and ozone on the spillover potential and dilution potential of an insect transmitted plant virus
Emily C. Pollina, Cornell University; Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University; Alison G. Power, Cornell University
11:10 AM
Barley yellow dwarf virus and its vectors differentially affect native and invasive perennial grasses in California’s coastal prairie
Tawny M. Mata, Michigan State University; Bryce W. Falk, University of California, Davis; Marcel Holyoak, University of California, Davis
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