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Disease Ecology

Monday, August 7

2:10 PM

Evaluating the role of host behavior in determining risk of vector-borne disease
Douglas G. Barron
Contributed Talks, room E147-148

4:00 PM

Cascade-fueled epidemics: Predators spread infectious disease by enhancing within-host parasite production
Maja Sljivar
Contributed Talks, room E147-148

4:30 PM

Tracking disease and fungal community structure in chestnut blight cankers on American chestnut in Michigan and Wisconsin
Matthew Kolp
Contributed Posters, room Exhibit Hall

4:40 PM

Interactions among environmental change, plant chemistry, and disease transmission: Disease dynamics in our phytochemical future
Mark D. Hunter
Organized Oral Sessions, room D136

Tuesday, August 8

8:40 AM

Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but not with biodiversity
Chelsea L. Wood
Contributed Talks, room D137

9:00 AM

Defining the phenotype of mange disease in bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus)
Alynn M. Martin
Contributed Talks, room D137

9:20 AM

Mechanisms driving resistance and resilience to community change after the sea star wasting disease outbreak
Sarah Gravem
Contributed Talks, room E142

10:10 AM

Effects of an antibacterial on disease dynamics in larval amphibians
Vanessa P. Wuerthner
Contributed Talks, room E147-148

1:50 PM

Applying the disease triangle in an epidemiological framework
Richard C. Cobb
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 257

2:10 PM

Snake fungal disease disrupts the skin microbiome of endangered Eastern Massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus)
Angela D. Kent
Contributed Talks, room D137

4:00 PM

Impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States
Jeffrey A, Hicke
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 257

4:20 PM

Data-driven approaches to building predictive capacity for zoonotic disease
Barbara Han
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 256

4:20 PM

Predisposition in plant disease: Signal conflicts and synergies in stress hormone pathways and response
Richard Bostock
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 257

4:20 PM

Dynamics of foot-and-mouth disease in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer): Calf-to-calf transmission alone is incompatible with disease persistence
Erin Gorsich
Contributed Talks, room D137

4:40 PM

Combined effects of reduced hydroperiod and pathogen exposure on amphibians experiencing endemic disease
Michel E B Ohmer
Contributed Talks, room D137

Wednesday, August 9

8:40 AM

Climate- and disease-induced demographic shifts in an endemic conifer of coastal California
Sarah Bisbing
Contributed Talks, room B118-119

8:40 AM

Scale-free measures of progress towards disease elimination in a metapopulation
Amalie McKee
Contributed Talks, room D137

9:00 AM

The shape of the contact-density function matters for disease persistence: Evidence from an experiment-driven simulation model
Benny Borremans
Contributed Talks, room D137

9:00 AM

The shape of the contact-density function matters for disease persistence: Evidence from an experiment-driven simulation model
Benny Borremans
Contributed Talks, room D137

9:00 AM

The shape of the contact-density function matters for disease persistence: Evidence from an experiment-driven simulation model
Benny Borremans
Contributed Talks, room D137

10:50 AM

Disturbance legacies and the post-fire dynamics of an emerging, introduced forest disease
Allison Simler
Contributed Talks, room B112

1:50 PM

Microbiome assembly dynamics in healthy and diseased corals
Courtney M. Dunphy
Contributed Talks, room C122

2:30 PM

Wildfire disturbance initially increases Lyme disease risk in California, yet dampens disease risk through time
Andrew J. MacDonald
Contributed Talks, room D137

4:00 PM

Molecular diversity of foliar fungal endophytes in relation to defense strategies and disease in whitebark pine
Lorinda Bullington
Contributed Talks, room E145

4:20 PM

Ecological feedbacks reveal disease can accelerate host evolution of lower resistance
Jason M. Walsman
Contributed Talks, room D137

Thursday, August 10

8:00 AM

Microbial diversity and pathogen acquisition altered by host blood meal in the microbiome of a key disease vector, Ixodes pacificus
Jessica Y. Kwan
Contributed Talks, room D137

9:00 AM

Disease structured N-mixture models: A tool for inference of disease dynamics without mark-recapture methods
Graziella V. DiRenzo
Contributed Talks, room B113

9:20 AM

Relationship between canopy structure, microclimate, and Swiss needle cast disease severity among young and mature Douglas-fir forests
Yung-Hsiang Lan
Contributed Talks, room D137

9:50 AM

Disease resistance genes in maize: Evidence for side-effects on non-pathogenic microbes
Maggie Wagner
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 255

11:10 AM

Modeling metapopulation dynamics in coupled natural-human systems: Integrating rails, wetlands, landowners, drought, and disease
Steven R. Beissinger
Organized Oral Sessions, room Portland Blrm 254

1:50 PM

Coral genetic diversity and disease dynamics
Pradeep Pillai
Contributed Talks, room E143-144

2:30 PM

The response of a parasite community to disease invasion: Bovine tuberculosis leads to functional changes in parasite communities within a host
Brianna Beechler
Contributed Talks, room D137

3:40 PM

Biotic and abiotic factors predisposing marri trees (Corymbia calophylla) to canker disease caused by the fungus Quambalaria coyrecup
Sarah J. Sapsford
Contributed Talks, room D137

4:00 PM

Raising the alarm on emerging diseases: quantitative methods for detection and decision making
Tobias S. Brett
Contributed Talks, room D137

4:20 PM

Some like it hot: Thermoregulation, amphibian disease and decline
Erin L. Sauer
Contributed Talks, room D137

4:40 PM

The impacts of farm and cattle density on foot-and-mouth disease epidemic spread
Amanda J. Meadows
Contributed Talks, room D137

4:40 PM

The impacts of farm and cattle density on foot-and-mouth disease epidemic spread
Amanda J. Meadows
Contributed Talks, room D137

Friday, August 11

8:00 AM

Connecting ecology and emerging infectious diseases: Insights from citizen science, fried chicken, and Lyme disease
Daniel J. Salkeld
Contributed Talks, room D137

8:20 AM

National scale surveillance for an exotic amphibian disease threat, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Bsal
Daniel A. Grear
Contributed Talks, room E142

8:30 AM

A framework for estimating the potential effects of climate change on tick-borne disease risk in Panama
Erin C Welsh
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

8:30 AM

Natural drivers of microbiome variation in the California Lyme disease vector
Lisa I. Couper
Latebreaking Posters, room Exhibit Hall

10:30 AM

Disease implications of animal social organization and network structure: A quantitative analysis
Pratha Sah
Contributed Talks, room D137

11:10 AM

Ecosystem and microbial drivers of Lyme disease risk in southern Vermont
William J. Landesman
Contributed Talks, room D137