calendarConference: Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
May 2006 (hosted by CIDD). Note: the 2007 conference will be hosted at Cornell — click here to go to the 2007 EEID website.
Downloadable material, 2006 conference
- Abstracts for contributed talks and posters: (528KB pdf)
- Session synthesis presentations: for session 1 (775kB pdf), session 2 (175kB pdf), and session 3 (40kB pdf).
- List of conference attendees (60KB pdf)
Logistics, 2006 conference
- When: May 18-20, 2006; the associated workshop for graduate students is on May 17.
- Where: Penn State's University Park campus, State College, PA.
- Who: For graduate students, postdocs and faculty researching infectious diseases.
- Administrative contact: Kristle Krichbaum.
- Conference and workshop evaluation: We'd really appreciate your taking the time to give us your feedback on the conference — and the workshop if you attended it. The web-based survey is now closed, but if you haven't yet given us feedback, or would like to tell us something else, please contact Catherine Williams.
Conference agenda, 2006 conference
Invited speakers have 25 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions. Contributed talks have 10 minutes, with 5 minutes for questions. Session syntheses have a 15-minute slot.
Thursday May 18, Session One: Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of viruses
- 8:00-8:40am Registration: please collect your conference packs from outside the lecture theater
- 8:45 Welcome and introduction to conference
- 9:00 Colin Parrish (Cornell): Evolution of host range and antigenic variation in parvoviruses - selection of overlapping binding sites
- 9:30 Eddie Holmes (Penn State): The molecular evolution of influenza A virus
- 10:00 Laura Pomeroy (Penn State): Paramyxovirus phylodynamics
- 10:15 Damien Tully (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): Selection shifts and adaptive molecular co-evolution in Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV) serotypes
- 10:30 (Coffee)
- 11:00 Nikolaos Vasilakis (University of Texas Medical Branch): Potential of ancestral sylvatic dengue-2 viruses to re-emerge
- 11:15 Helen Wearing (University of Georgia): Ecological and immunological determinants of dengue outbreaks
- 11:30 Juliet Pulliam (Princeton): Underlying cause of Nipah virus emergence in Peninsular Malaysia
- 11:45 Sioban Duffy (Yale): Rapid evolution of reproductive isolation in an RNA virus
- 12:00 Katie Hampson (Princeton): Noisy synchrony of rabies epidemics on a continental scale
- 12:15 Session synthesis by Roman Biek (Emory) and Katia Koelle (Penn State). Download this presentation: 775kB pdf
- 12:30 (Lunch)
Thursday May 18, Session Two: Parasites in field systems
- 1:30pm Kevin Lafferty (USGS): The ecology of trematodes in salt marsh ecosystems
- 2:00 Curt Lively (Indiana): Parasites and sex in natural populations of a New Zealand snail
- 2:30 Amy Pedersen (University of Georgia): Parasites contribute to crashes in a wild mouse population
- 2:45 Matt Ferrari (Penn State): Inbreeding effects on pathogen exposure and susceptibility in the wild gourd, Cucurbita pepo ssp. Texana
- 3:00 (Coffee)
- 3:30 Brian Allan (Washington University, St Louis): The effects of forestry practice on human risk of tick-borne diseases in the Missouri Ozarks
- 3:45 Nicole Gottdenker (University of Georgia): What do Kissing Bugs, Palms and Opposums have in common? Modeling the effects of land use change on the ecology of Trypanosoma cruzi
- 4:00 Dan Salkeld (Colorado State University): Enzootic plague on the prairie: are small mammals plague reservoirs?
- 4:15 Michael Levy (Emory): Identifying Chagas disease infection in children during a spray campaign: predictors, time and space
- 4:30 Alexander Hernandez (Florida International University): Parasitism, food webs and biomass patterns in natural ecosystems
- 4:45 Session synthesis by Jason Rohr (Penn State) and Noah Whiteman (U Missouri, St Louis). Download this presentation: 175kB pdf
Friday May 19, Session 3: Paths to pathogenicity
- 8:55am Introduction to day
- 9:00 Drew Harvell (Cornell): Climate and disease threats to coral reefs: a hundred year climate event
- 9:30 Stephan Schuster (Penn State): Genome evolution and host adaptation in Helicobacter
- 10:00 Sam Brown (University of Texas at Austin): Microbes invade by changing the game
- 10:15 Jacobus DeRoode (University of Georgia): Virulence evolution in monarch butterfly parasites
- 10:30 (Coffee)
- 11:00 Grainne Long (Edinburgh University): The immunological path to virulence in malaria
- 11:15 Natalia Mantilla-Beniers (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia): Charmed by immunity? Perhaps ecology matters more
- 11:30 Andreas Handel (Emory): Compensatory mutations and the emergence of drug resistance
- 11:45 Aisling Ni Ruirarc (National University of Ireland, Maynooth): Unraveling the antimicrobial activity of CCL28 and CCL 27
- 12:00 Andrew Wargo (Edinburgh University): Does curative drug treatment accelerate the evolution of drug resistance in malaria?
- 12:15 Session synthesis by Jesse Brunner (Institute of Ecosystem Studies) and Andrea Graham (Edinburgh). Download this presentation: 405kB pdf
- 12:30 (Lunch)
Friday May 19, Session 4: Poster session
In the first part of Session Four, each poster presenter will be asked to present a brief summary (up to 2 minutes with 1 optional PowerPoint slide) of their main research questions and findings. Once these presentations have taken place in 113 IST Building (same venue as conference talks), posters will be displayed in the Stuckeman Building (also known as SALA; see the campus map). Attendees will need to walk from the IST building to the Stuckeman Building.
- 1:30pm Introduction to posters
- 1:40 Parviez Hosseini (Princeton): The potential role of disease in grassland community structure in California
- …Then at 3 minute intervals thereafter…
- Guillaume Barbier (IRD): Do the boundaries of bird sanctuaries act as natural frontiers against disease spread into their outskirts?
- Roman Biek (Emory): The genetics of demographic and spatial expansion in epizootic rabies virus
- Jesse Brunner (Institute of Ecosystem Studies): The 80:20 rule in Lyme disease dynamics: causes and consequences of variable tick burdens on white-footed mice
- Rubing Chen (Penn State): Far from stasis: the rapid evolutionary dynamics of Avian Influenza A virus
- Meggan Craft (University of Minnesota): Lions are social, too: Development of a lion social network model
- Daniel Grear (Wisconsin/Penn State): Influence of genetic relatedness and spatial proximity on CWD transmission among female white-tailed deer
- Sean Griffing (Emory): Spatially explicit raccoon rabies model
- Dana Hawley (Smithsonian Institution): Healthy house finches preferentially feed near sick flockmates
- J Caroline Henderson (Emory): Assessment of Raccoon Rabies Expansion into Eastern Ohio
- Karin Hoelzer (Cornell): Evolution of the single stranded DNA genome
- Chris Jennelle (Cornell): Accounting for demographic structure and transience in a Mycoplasma gallisepticum - House Finch disease system
- Angie Luis (Penn State): Hibernation patterns in mammals: a role for bacterial growth?
- Shelli Meyer (Texas A&M University): Environmental factors affecting abundance and distribution of a marine human pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus
- Zachariah Miller (University of Michigan): The diversity of fungal pathogens associated with host plant species as a function of plant species range and morphology: phylogenetic independence and the pace of disease community assembly
- Tonya Mixson (Emory University and CDC): Inference of the demographic history and population structure of Amblyomma americanum using DHPLC
- Martha Nelson (Penn State): Stochastic processes are key determinants in the short-term evolution of influenza A virus
- Leslie Reparant (Princeton): Urban transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis and other zoonotic parasites in the city of Geneva, Switzerland
- Benjamin Roche (IRD): Modeling the impact of biological diversity on the transmission of vector-borne disease using multi-agent systems
- Jason Rohr (Penn State): The role of landscape and local variables in the prevalence and intensity of amphibian helminth infections
- Manojit Roy (University of Florida): Effect of predation on host-pathogen dynamics with an immune class
- Bala Thiagarajan (Kansas State): Prevalence of Bartonella species in rodents and fleas associated with black-tailed prairie dogs
- Trista Welsh (University of Alaska, Fairbanks): Avian influenza and the MHC Class I region in Alaskan waterfowl
- Noah Whiteman (University of Missouri St Louis): Disease ecology and evolution in the endemic Galapagos hawk and its ectoparasites
- Aryn Wilder (Colorado State University): Early-phase transmission of plague (Yersinia pestis) by the prairie dog flea (Oropsylla hirsuta)
- Yang Zhou (Penn State): Comparative analysis reveals no consistent association between the secondary structure of the 3'-UTR of dengue viruses and disease syndrome
Saturday May 20
- Networking day hike at Black Moshannon State Park
- Conclusions and future directions (venue off-campus; details in conference packs)
Other information, 2006 conference
- The first session on Thursday May 18 will start at 8:45am; the final session on Saturday May 20 will end at 5pm, with an evening social to follow.
- For the conference hike, you will need to bring stout shoes and suitable outdoor gear (e.g. waterproofs, a sweater, a sun hat, insect repellent, sun screen).
- Evening venues will be arranged from Wednesday May 17 to Saturday May 20.
- Venue for Tues May 16 (workshop participants): meet at The Deli (see a google map of the location), from 8pm onwards
- Venue for Weds May 17: meet at Mad Mex (next to the Day's Inn hotel: map), from 7pm onwards
- Venue details for subsequent nights will be in the conference pack
- Previous conferences in this series have been held at Colorado State University (2005), Emory University (2004), and Penn State (2003).
- Chair of organizing committee at Penn State: Peter Hudson.
Workshop for graduate students, 2006
- Subject: How phylogenetics can be applied to emerging diseases
- When: May 17, 2006, plus the associated conference
- Who: Particularly suitable for graduate students wishing to complement their ecological studies with molecular data. Applications for the workshop greatly exceeded the number of slots available (by more than 2:1). All places have been filled.
- Instructor: Eddie Holmes
- Venue: Sparks building (see the campus map)
- Agenda:
- 10am - noon: Lecture in 10 Sparks
- Noon - 1pm: Lunch (provided)
- 1 pm - 5pm: Lecture in 15A Sparks
Through lectures and computer practicals, we will show how phylogenetic analysis of pathogen gene sequence data can provide crucial insights into the process of disease emergence, including: identification of the reservoir population; the role played by natural selection and recombination/reassortment in enabling pathogens to spread in new host species; the rate at which pathogens populations are growing in size. Computer practical sessions will provide training in use of relevant software (e.g. PAUP*, MrBayes, HYYPHY, BEAST), using real data examples (e.g. dengue, HIV) to illustrate:
- Principle methods of phylogenetic analysis (maximum likelihood, parsimony, neighbor-joining, Bayesian methods)
- Analysis of the selection pressures acting on genes
- Detection of recombination and reassortment
- Estimation of population growth rates using coalescent methodologies