COS 44
Disease And Epidemiology II
Tuesday, August 12, 2014: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Regency Blrm E, Hyatt Regency Hotel
2:50 PM
Prion amplification and hierarchical Bayesian modeling refine detection and prevalence estimates of chronic wasting disease in a free-ranging elk population
A. Christy Wyckoff, Colorado State University;
Nathan Galloway, Colorado State University;
Crystal Meyerett-Reid, Colorado State University;
Jenny Powers, National Park Service;
Terry Spraker, Colorado State University;
Ryan Monello, National Park Service;
Bruce Pulford, Colorado State University;
Margaret Wild, National Park Service;
Michael Antolin, Colorado State University;
Kurt VerCauteren, National Wildlife Research Center-USDA;
Mark Zabel, Colorado State University
3:20 PM
How a multi-host pathogen is affected by the trophic structure of its host community?
Elsa Canard, Centre National de la Recherche Scientique;
Benjamin Roche, IRD-UPMC;
Andres Garchitorena, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement;
Aaron Morris, University of Bournemouth;
Laurent Marsollier, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale;
Rodolphe E. Gozlan, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle;
Jean-François Guégan, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement de Montpellier