1. Samuel Alizon (Queen’s University) Transmission-recovery trade-offs to study parasites
2. Nicole Arrigo (University of Texas Medical Branch) North American versus South American Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection of Hispid Cotton Rats
3. Vicki Barclay (Pennsylvania State University) Mixed allele malaria vaccines: host protection and parasite within host selection
4. Nita Bharti (Pennsylvania State University) Measles Detected from Space
5. Mike Boots (University of Sheffield) Common to both vertebrates and invertebrates are innate immune mechanisms that can be either constitutively expressed or induced on exposure to infection.
6. Matthew Bonds (Earth Institute at Columbia University) Poverty Trap Driven by Feedback Between Economics and Ecology of Infectious Diseases
7. Meggan Craft (University of Minnesota) Disease Dynamics Fail to Scale: Lessons from a Viral Epidemic in African Lions
8. Eleanor Deardorff (University of Texas Medical Branch) The Ecology of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus in Southern Mexico
9. John Drake (University of Georgia) Emergence of vector-borne diseases in urban environments as a public health threat.
10. Alison Duncan (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, Montpellier, France) Mixed-Species Parasite Infections in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti.
11. Simon Fellous (Cornell University) Different effect of larval food richness on larval and adult constitutive immunity
12. Nicole Gottdenker (University of Georgia) Forest fragmentation is associated with increased vector abundance and infection with the Chagas disease agent Trypanosoma cruzi in a rural landscape of Panama
13. Karen Grocock (University of Edinburgh) Are Antigen-specific Immune Responses Always Beneficial to Hosts?
14. Katie Hampson (University of Sheffield) Impacts of domestic dog vaccination on the spatiotemporal dynamics of a rabies epidemic
15. Peter Hraber (Theory Division, LANL) HLA and HIV infection progression: Application of the minimum description length principle to statistical genetics
16. Silvie Huijben (Pennsylvania State University) Sub-curative drug treatment to slow down the spread of drug resistant malaria
17. Beth Kochin (Emory University) The dynamics of acute malaria infections: innate immunology & bystander killing.
18. Sandra Lass (Penn State) Shedding light on co-infection
19. Jennie Lavine (Pennsylvania State University) Coexistence through age-structured or temporal niche segregation in Bordetella pertussis and B. parapertussis
20. Lien Luong (Pennsylvania State University) Seeking out the Super-shedders: Estimating Parasite Fecundity in the White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)
21. Hamish McCallum (University of Tasmani) Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease: a parasitic clonally-reproducing mammal, which threatens to cause extinction of an iconic species.
22. Courtney Murdock (University of Michigan) Life history theory assumes reproduction is expensive and competes for resources with other costly activities like immune defense.
23. Nicole Mideo, (Queen’s University) Understanding and predicting strain specific patterns of malaria pathogenesis in mice
24. Amy Pedersen (University of Sheffield) In natural systems, host species are often co-infected by multiple pathogen species, and recent work has suggested that many pathogens can infect a wide range of host species.
25. Emily Pollina (Cornell University) Effects of elevated ozone on transmission and symptom severity of a generalist plant virus
26. Gilbert SaintJean (Notre Dame) Understanding the Transmission Dynamics of Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti
27. Dan Salkeld (University of California, Berkeley) Why squirrels will be supporting Obama: Lyme disease and community ecology in California
28. Sourya Shrestha (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Host population structure and pathogen evolution
29. Eleanore Sternberg (Emory University) The Effects of Host Plant on Monarch Butterflies and Their Parasites
30. Daniel Streicker (University of Georgia) Epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of rabies host shifts in bats.
31. Andrew Wargo (University of Washington) Virulence tradeoffs in an Acute Vertebrate Virus
32. Jamie Winternitz (University of Georgia) Selection dynamics and MHC variability in cyclic montane voles
33. Andrew Yates (Emory University) The dynamics of adaptive immune responses; How fast can cytotoxic T cells survey potential targets in vivo?