COS 171 - Disease And Epidemiology 1

Presentations:

• 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT

  Understanding the role of Tetrodotoxin on skin microbiome composition and chytrid fungal infection in rough-skinned newts (Taricha granulosa).
  

  Presenting Author: Talon Jost – Eastern Washington University

  Coauthor: Alysha Henderson – Washington State University

  Coauthor: Jenifer Walke – Eastern Washington University

  Coauthor: Jonah Piovia-Scott – Washington State University, Vancouver
• 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

  Snake Fungal Disease: Estimating the impacts of an emerging multi-host pathogen across a Southeastern gradient
  

  Presenting Author: Dane A. Conley – Virginia Tech

  Coauthor: Kate E. Langwig – Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech

  Coauthor: Gaelle Blanvillain – Virginia Tech

  Coauthor: John Kleopfer – Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources

  Coauthor: Joseph R. Hoyt – Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
• 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM PDT

  Skin peptides inhibit Batrachochytrium fungi from an undescribed Ranidae frog from Panamá
  

  Presenting Author: Aura Y. Muniz Torres – Purdue University

  Coauthor: Louise A. Rollins-Smith – Vanderbilt University

  Coauthor: Laura K. Reinert – Vanderbilt University

  Coauthor: J. Michael Conlon – University of Ulster

  Coauthor: Douglas C. Woodhams – UMass Boston
• 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

  CANCELLED - Land use gradients drive spatial variation in Lassa fever host communities in Eastern Sierra Leone.
  

  Presenting Author: David Simons, MBBS – The Royal Veterinary College

  Coauthor: Rory Gibb, PhD – Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

  Coauthor: Umaru Bangura, PhD – Njala University

  Coauthor: Dianah Sondufu – Njala University

  Coauthor: Joyce Lamin – Njala University

  Coauthor: James Koninga – Kenema General Hospital

  Coauthor: Momoh Jimmy – Kenema General Hospital

  Coauthor: Michael Dawson – Njala University

  Coauthor: Joseph Lahai – Njala University

  Coauthor: Rashid Ansumana, PhD – Njala University

  Coauthor: Deborah Watson-Jones, PhD – The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  Coauthor: Richard Kock, PhD – The Royal Veterinary College

  Coauthor: Kate E. Jones, PhD – University College London
• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT

  Evaluation of species diversity metrics to predict Lyme disease risk
  

  Presenting Author: Shannon Summers – San Francisco State University

  Coauthor: Andrea Swei, Phd – San Francisco State University
• 11:15 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

  Disease Ecology of Buruli ulcer: Aquatic Community Associations of Mycobacterium ulcerans and other Mycolactone Producing Mycobacteria in the Southern USA and French Guiana
  

  Presenting Author: M. Eric Benbow, PhD – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Jennifer Pechal – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Sophie Picq – Field Museum

  Coauthor: Magdalene Dogbe – Mississippi State University

  Coauthor: Alex Rakestraw – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Kayla Fast – Mississippi State University

  Coauthor: Matthew Scott – Mississippi State University

  Coauthor: Joseph Receuver – University of Maryland, Baltimore

  Coauthor: Alexandra Bauer – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Kelly Waters – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Anthony Grigsby – Michigan State University

  Coauthor: Christine Chevillon – Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs : Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et Contrôle (MIVEGEC), Université de Montpellier (UM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut pour la Recherche et le Développement

  Coauthor: Michael Sandel – Mississippi State University

  Coauthor: Heather Jordan – Mississippi State University

  Coauthor: Jean-François Guégan – 7UMR Animal, santé, territoires, risques et écosystèmes, Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE), Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (Cirad), Université de Montpellier (UM)