97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012)

1:30 PM

COS 106-1

Environmental and demographic determinants of avian influenza viruses in waterfowl across the contiguous United States
Matthew L. Farnsworth, Conservation Science Partners; Ryan S. Miller, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Kerri Pedersen, USDA-Wildlife Services; Mark W. Lutman, USDA-Wildlife Services; Seth R. Swafford, USDA-Wildlife Services; Philip D. Riggs, United States Department of Agriculture; Colleen T. Webb, Colorado State University

1:50 PM

COS 106-2

Biodiversity and disease risk: Dilution effect or simply habitat change?
A. Marm Kilpatrick, University of California, Santa Cruz; Matthew J. Jones, New York State Department of Health; Laura D. Kramer, Wadsworth Center, New York State Dept Health and SUNY Albany; Peter Marra, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute; Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance

2:10 PM

COS 106-3

Increased plant resistance to stem-lesions caused by Phytophthora spp. following biochar amendment
Drew C. Zwart, University of Washington; Soo-Hyung Kim, University of Washington

2:30 PM

COS 106-4

Beyond temperature: Comparing the roles of temperature, nutrients and evaporation on parasite seasonality and amphibian disease risk in natural systems
Sara H. Paull, University of California Santa Cruz; Pieter TJ Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder

2:50 PM

COS 106-5

Water quality and the incidence of Avian Malaria in the Western Cape, South Africa
Sharon Okanga, University of Cape Town; Graeme S. Cumming, University of Cape Town; Philip A.R. Hockey, University of Cape Town; Jeffrey L. Peters, Wright State University

3:10 PM

COS 106-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 106-6

Inferring epidemiological parameters and dynamics in structured populations from sequence data
David A. Rasmussen, Duke University; Erik M. Volz, University of Michigan; Katia Koelle, Duke University

3:40 PM

COS 106-7

Quantifying the biomass of parasites in amphibian hosts to understand their role in aquatic food webs
Jason P. Lambden, University of Colorado; Pieter T. J. Johnson, University of Colorado at Boulder

4:00 PM

COS 106-8

Shifts in amphibian symbiotic bacterial communities are linked to epidemic spread of the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Andrea J. Jani, University of California - Santa Barbara; Cheryl J. Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara

4:20 PM

COS 106-9

A metabolic modeling framework to predict geographical and temporal changes in parasite fitness under climate change
Péter K. Molnár, Princeton University; Susan J. Kutz, University of Calgary; Bryanne M. Hoar, University of Calgary; Andrew P. Dobson, Princeton University

4:40 PM

COS 106-10

Predicting the evolutionary fate of the virus resistant transgene in wild populations of Cucurbita pepo
Jacquelyn E. Harth, The Pennsylvania State University; Matthew J. Ferrari, Penn State University; Andrew G. Stephenson, The Pennsylvania State University

COS 106 - Disease And Epidemiology II