We’ve scheduled a full day of events including talks, a poster session, and a catered reception.
9:00-9:20 am: Opening Remarks, Dr. John Drake, Director CEID
9:20-10:25 am: Morning Session I
Courtney Murdock, University of Georgia. Virus-vector Interactions
Laura Harrington, Cornell University Vector Behavior and Disease Transmission
Michael Strand, University of Georgia. Vector-microbiome Interactions
10:25-10:50 am: Coffee Break
10:50-12:20 pm: Morning Session II
Alun Lloyd, North Carolina State University. Agent-based Models of Disease Transmission for Applications
Bobby Reiner, University of Washington. Integrating over variation: the impact of heterogeneity, stochasticity, and uncertainty in mosquito population dynamics on pathogen transmission models
Alex Perkins, University of Notre Dame. Spatial Epidemiology of Vector-borne Diseases
Nicholas Reich, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Forecasting Disease Transmission
12:20-1:20 pm: Lunch
1:20-2:50 pm: Afternoon Session I
Mike Boots, University of California, Berkeley. Virulence Evolution
Ary Hoffmann, University of Melbourne. Interactions Between Wolbachia Strains and Host Background in Aedes Mosquitoes
Sadie Ryan, University of Florida. Direct and Indirect Social Drivers and Impacts of Vector-borne Diseases
Erin Mordecai, Stanford University. Environmental Drivers of Disease Transmission in a Changing World
2:50-3:10 pm: Coffee Break
3:10-4:40 pm: Afternoon Session II
Derek Cummings, University of Florida. Antibody Dependent Enhancement
Simon Gubbins, The Pirbright Institute. Population Biology of Culicoides-borne Viruses of Livestock
Maria-Diuk Wasser, Columbia University. Population Biology of Human Tick-borne Pathogens
Edward Wenger, Intellectual Ventures. Evaluating the Information of Parasite Genomics for Malaria Elimination
4:40-5:30: Future Directions Panel Discussion
5:30-6:30 pm: Poster Session and Reception