COS 95
Disease And Epidemiology V

Thursday, August 14, 2014: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Regency Blrm B, Hyatt Regency Hotel
8:00 AM
 Bovine tuberculosis transmission in the United States, inferred from population genetic structure
Kimberly Tsao, Colorado State University; Suelee Robbe-Austerman, USDA APHIS VS NVSL; Ryan S. Miller, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Katie Portacci, USDA APHIS VS CEAH; Colleen Webb, Colorado State University
8:20 AM
 Uncovering the structure of foliar parasite metacommunities in California grasslands
Fletcher W. Halliday, University of North Carolina; Charles E. Mitchell, UNC-Chapel Hill
8:40 AM
 Host life-history and host-parasite syntopy predict resistance and tolerance to parasites
Jason R. Rohr, University of South Florida; Brittany F. Sears, University of South Florida; Paul W. Snyder, University of South Florida
9:00 AM
 Disease pressure in plant communities: The joint roles of abundance and phylogenetic structure
Ingrid M. Parker, University of California, Santa Cruz; Gregory S. Gilbert, University of California Santa Cruz; Megan Saunders, University of California Santa Cruz
9:20 AM
 Natural enemy ecology: comparing the effects of predation risk, infection risk and disease on host traits
Daniel L. Preston, University of Colorado; Clara E. Boland, University of Colorado; Jason T. Hoverman, Purdue University; Pieter T.J. Johnson, University of Colorado
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
 Modelling the ecological niche of emerging infectious diseases: The case of Mycobacterium ulcerans causing Buruli ulcer in humans
Kevin Carolan, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement de Montpellier; Solange Meyin À Ebong, Centre Pasteur du Cameroun; Andres Garchitorena, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement; Danny Lo-Seen, Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement; Jean-François Guégan, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement de Montpellier
10:10 AM
 Effects of temperature and resource level on host traits and susceptibility to sylvatic dengue virus in a wild and laboratory population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
John I. Hammond, University of New Mexico; Christy C. Andrade, New Mexico State University; Immo A. Hansen, New Mexico State University; Kathryn A. Hanley, New Mexico State University
10:30 AM
 Predicting bat reservoirs of zoonotic infectious diseases
Barbara A. Han, University of Georgia; John Paul Schmidt, University of Georgia; Sarah E. Bowden, University of Georgia; John M. Drake, University of Georgia
10:50 AM
 A mechanistic basis for the disease-diversity relationship for directly transmitted microparasites
Suzanne M. O'Regan, University of Georgia; John E. Vinson, University of Georgia; Andrew W. Park, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
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