COS 65: Disease And Epidemiology 3

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific

Presentations:

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A community ecology perspective on the role of hosts in vector-borne disease transmission
Presenting Author: Andrea Swei – Biology, San Francisco State University
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A system to study pathogen emergence: Caenorhabditis nematodes and Orsay virus
Presenting Author: Clara Shaw – Biology, Pennsylvania State University
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Association between environmental variation and severity of host population declines following pathogen invasion varies across species in a multi-host pathogen system
Presenting Author: Alexander T. Grimaudo – Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
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Community composition, abundance, and environmental conditions may enhance transmission of a ranavirus in larval amphibian communities
Presenting Author: Daniel Suh – Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
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Differences in growth between historical and contemporary isolates of a virulent fungal pathogen
Presenting Author: Nichole A. Laggan – Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
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Does early life exposure to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis promotes tolerance to chytrid fungal infection in post-metamorphic amphibians?
Presenting Author: Aura Y. Muñiz Torres – Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts-Boston
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Exploring how generalist pathogens and priority effects alter the risk of being infected by specialist pathogens
Presenting Author: Jing Jiao – Biological Science, Florida State University
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Implications of drought for a tritrophic plant-host-pathogen system
Presenting Author: Wilnelia Recart – Biology, University of San Diego
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Sex-biased infections and mortality in a multi-host fungal pathogen of bats
Presenting Author: Macy Kailing – Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
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Uncertainty and realism in a national cattle foot-and-mouth disease model
Presenting Author: Kendra E. Gilbertson – Biology, Colorado State University