OOS 23
Models and Mechanisms of Fungal Disease
Tuesday, August 11, 2015: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
342, Baltimore Convention Center
Organizer:
Noam Ross, UC Davis
Co-organizers:
Cheryl J. Briggs, University of California, Santa Barbara; and
Richard C. Cobb, University of Califorina Davis
Moderator:
Richard C. Cobb, University of Califorina Davis
Fungal diseases play critical roles in structuring natural communities, and can have devastating impacts on important ecological, economic, or cultural resources as well as human health. Emerging fungal and fungal-like pathogens such as white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats, amphibian chytridiomycosis (Bd), and sudden oak death (SOD) share common patterns of rapid spread and mass mortality in hosts. These fungal pathogens may also share common physiological and epidemiological mechanisms that account for their dynamics and strong effects on host populations. These mechanisms include spore accumulation, host generality, and persistence in the environment.
Recent advances in understanding fungal disease have emerged from observational, experimental and modeling studies of outbreaks of disease as well as study of native fungi and model fungal disease systems. In this session, we aim to synthesize these advances by highlighting both commonalities and unique, biologically driven, differences among systems. Talks in this session will feature new research on the mechanisms of disease spread, host mortality, and host-pathogen dynamics in fungal epidemics.
8:20 AM
Habitat, hosts, and fungus in the field: Regulators of Metschnikowia epidemics in natural zooplankton communities
Alexander T. Strauss, Indiana University;
Marta S. Shocket, Indiana University;
Jessica L. Hite, Indiana University;
David J. Civitello, University of South Florida;
Rachel M. Penczykowski, University of Helsinki;
Carla E. Cáceres, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Meghan A. Duffy, University of Michigan;
Spencer R. Hall, Indiana University
