COS 279 - Parasitism And Host-Parasite Interactions 4

Presentations:

• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EDT

  Female Preference Strength and Feedback Shapes Parasite-Mediated Sexual Selection
  

  Presenting Author: Faith Rovenolt – University of Pittsburgh

  Coauthor: Jason Walsman – University of Pittsburgh

  Coauthor: Jessica Stephenson, PhD – University of Pittsburgh
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

  Interactions between ticks and small mammals at the regional scale in a tick-borne disease system
  

  Presenting Author: John R. Foster – Boston University Department of Earth and Environment

  Coauthor: Howard Ginsberg – United States Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center

  Coauthor: Shannon L. LaDeau – Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

  Coauthor: Andrew Royle – United States Geological Survey, Eastern Ecological Science Center

  Coauthor: Michael C. Dietze – Boston University
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM EDT

  CANCELLED - Effect of migration on synchrony in a host-parasitoid system
  

  Coauthor: Alan Hastings – University of California Davis

  Presenting Author: Appilineni Kushal – UC Davis

  Coauthor: Karen Abbott – Case Western Reserve University
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

  Evidence of nematodes (Caenorhabditis elegans) as alternative hosts for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal)
  

  Presenting Author: Alexis M. Korotasz, B.S. – University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, IN

  Coauthor: Jason R. Rohr, Ph.D. – University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, IN
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM EDT

  Community descriptors are more sensitive to parasite species resolution than to host sampling completeness
  

  Presenting Author: Cristina Llopis-Belenguer – ETH Zurich

  Coauthor: Juan Antonio Balbuena – University of Valencia

  Coauthor: Isabel Blasco-Costa – Natural History Museum of Geneva

  Coauthor: Anssi Karvonen – University of Jyvaskyla

  Coauthor: Volodimir Sarabeev – Zaporizhzhia National University

  Coauthor: Jukka Jokela – ETH Zurich