Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases – PI Network Meeting

Prospector’s Square Lodge and Conference Center

Park City, Utah

March 30-April 3 2009

FINAL AGENDA

March 30

6:00 -9:30 Birding trip to see lekking sage grouse

10:00-3:30 Trip to Antelope Island to see Bison

12:00 – 5:30 Small group Influenza meeting (Coalition Rm 1)

5:15 Bar opens in Silver King room

5:30 Welcome (Silver King Room) – Denise Dearing, University of Utah

5:45 Invited talk - Peter Hudson, Penn State (Silver King Room)

6:10 Welcome reception: Appetizers and Cash bar (Silver King Room)

7:30 Dinner on your own

March 31

8:15-8:45 Continental Breakfast (Prospector Theater)

8:45 Welcome and meeting plan: (Prospector Theater)

Josh Rosenthal (NIH) and Tom Hobbs (NSF)

9:00 Featured Talk (Prospector Theater)

9:00

Cherie Briggs

An introduced forest pathogen, Phytophthora ramorum, lowers risk of Lyme disease in California

9:30 EID Research talks: (Prospector Theater)

9:30	Felicia Keesing	Hosts as ecological traps for zoonotic disease vectors
9:50	Tony Barbet	Anaplasma phagocytophilum strain diversity
10:10	Sarah Bevins	Yersinia pestis seroprevalence in bobcats (Lynx rufus) and pumas (Puma concolor)

10:30 Break: Coffee & light snack in hallway

11:00 EID Research talks (15 minutes each, including questions)

11:00	Omar E. Cornejo	Polymorphism in the competence peptide and the limits to recombination in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
11:20	Jeffrey Shields	Ecological Aspects of Hematodinium infections in the American blue crab
11:40	Yan Wei	The role of bacteriophage in modulating outbreaks of cholera

12:00 Lunch (on your own)

1:30 EID Research talks (Prospector Theater)

1:30	Cheryl L. Dybas	News "Speed Dating" for scientists and journalists: conveying Ecology of Infectious Diseases findings in Haiku-short form
2:00	John M. Drake	Percolation like spread of West Nile virus in New York City
2:20	Gabe Hamer	Eco-epidemiology of West Nile virus II
2:40	Ryan Harrigan	Socioeconomic factors best explain the prevalence of West Nile virus in a local hotspot

3:00 Break: Coffee & light snack in or near Silver King

3:00 – 6:00 Poster Session (Silver King)

4:00 -6:00 Reception (no host bar & appetizers: Silver King)

6:00 Adjourn for day

Dinner on your own

April 1

8:00 Continental Breakfast (Prospector Theater)

8:30 EEID Research featured talk: (Prospector Theater)

9:00 EEID Research talks (Prospector Theater)

9:00	Uriel Kitron	Eco-epidemiology of Chagas disease in the Argentinian Chaco
9:30	Sue VandeWoude	The effects of urban fragmentation and landscape connectivity on disease prevalence and transmission in North American felids
9:50	Virginia Pitzer	The role of demographic variability and vaccination in the spatiotemporal dynamics of rotavirus
10:10	Dave Pleydell	Spatial ecology and transmission of a zoonotic helminth in Tibetan pastoralist communities

10:30 Break: Coffee and light snack in hallway

10:50 EEID Research Talks

10:50	Nathan Nieto	Major antigen expression site diversity in Anaplasma phagocytophilum arises from clustered, over-represented functional pseudogenes.
11:10	Michael Emch and Larry McKay	Does Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh Raise Exposure to Bacterial and Viral Pathogens?
11:30	Jonna Mazet	Pathogen Pollution: Marine mammals as sentinels of rapid change in disease ecology
11:50	Daniel Rejmanek	Sarcocystis Neurona: Exploring the fatal link between opossums and sea otters in coastal California
12:10	Parviez Hosseini	The effects of host community composition on disease spread

12:30 Lunch (on your own)

2:00 Research Project talks

2:00	Vincent Meunster
2:20	Andrew Wargo	In vivo virulence tradeoffs in an RNA virus
2:40	Jennifer Apodaca	Evolution of the regulatory and transcriptional response to oxygen

3:00 Coffee and light snack in hallway

3:30 Research Project talks

3:30	Jeff A. Tracey	An agent-based movement model to assess the impact of landscape fragmentation on disease transmission
3:50	Richard C. Cobb	Apparent competition in canopy trees mediated by Sudden Oak Death: disease spread, changes in ecosystem processes, and conservation challenges
4:10	Justin Remais	Quantifying parasite spread: linking molecular genetics and environmental modeling to identify diffusion pathways of human schistosomes in China
4:30	Nabie Bayoh	Population replacement of malaria vectors is mediated by widespread use of bed nets

5:00 Adjourn for day

Dinner on your own

April 2

7:30-8:00 Continental Breakfast (in or near Coalition 1)

Workshops: Coalition 1

1) 8-11 Biosafety

9:30- 45 Break (Coffee and light snack)

2) 12:45-3:45 Techniques in EcoImmunology

2:00-2:15 Break (Coffee and light snack)

3) 4-5:30 Isotopes in Disease Ecology

Dinner on your own

Apr 3

7:30 am bus to UU for stable isotopes tour

8:00-9:30 Continental breakfast and tour of SIRFER

9:30 depart from UU on bus to airport for a 10 am arrival

Agenda

EEID

03/31/2009 - 04/01/2009

Agenda