Room 1: Evolution of Pathogens and Hosts

Monday, June 14, 2021

Brent Allman
Heterogeneity in viral infections increases the rate of deleterious mutation accumulation
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Lewis Bartlett
Bringing more realistic ecology into modelling how spatial structuring constrains virulence evolution.
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Lisa Bono
You can have your cake and eat it, too: adaptation to a novel host does not cause strong selection when returned to the original host
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Pablo Cárdenas
Opqua: an epidemiological modeling framework for pathogen population genetics and evolution
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Melissa Collier
Transmission mode determines contact structure and drives pathogen characteristics
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Matthew Combs
Host specificity and frequency dependent selection as drivers of strain diversity for the pathogenic microbe, Borrelia burgdorferi
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Justin Critchlow
Constitutive Immune Expression Disproportionately Affects Mortality Rates During Acute Infection
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Alexander Downie
Optimal immune specificity at the intersection of host life history and parasite epidemiology
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Jéssica Teodoro-Paulo
Genetic variation for plant immunosuppression by herbivorous spider-mites
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Hélène Chabas
Epidemiological and evolutionary consequences of CRISPR-Cas reactivity
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Nurul Fuandila
Impact of structural variation turnover in the rapid in vitro evolution of Cyprinid herpesvirus 3, a large double-stranded DNA virus
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Martin Guillemet
Coevolution and competition drive the diversification of CRISPR immunity
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Hector Tobias
Host thermal limits in the face of infectious disease: how important are pathogens?
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Malina Loeher
Virulence evolution of infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus post-host jump
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Jessica Maccaro
Comparative Genomics of Bee-Loving Fungi Provides Clues to The Evolution of Entomopathogenicity in Ascosphaera spp.
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Hannelore MacDonald
Host phenology can select for multiple stable parasite virulence strategies
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Reese Martin
Immune signaling network evolution under selection by parasites
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Daniel Martínez-Gómez
Specific genetic background is required for acquisition of virulence genes in Escherichia coli.
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Eglantine Mathieu-Begne
No pre-zygotic isolation mechanisms between Schistosoma haematobium and Schistosoma bovis parasites: from mating interactions to differential gene expression
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Carla Mavian
Multifaceted adaptive landscape of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae during epidemic waves in the Democratic Republic of Congo associated with a novel and unique ICP1 Bacteriophage.
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Aakash Pandey
Coincidental selection for interference competition contributes to virulence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Madeline Peters
Consequences of frequency-dependent selection for estimating selection strength on a disease resistance allele
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Robert E. Rollins
Out of Asia? Vector switches leading to the expansion of Eurasian Lyme borreliosis bacteria
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Mary (« Molly ») Rorick
Scientific teaching methods and EEID topics for evolution outreach in schools
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Igor Rouzine
An evolution-based high-fidelity method of epistasis measurement: theory and application to influenza
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Faith Rovenolt
Modeling Female Guppy Choosiness and Its Effect on Parasite Prevalence
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Ciara Sheets
Experimental evolution of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a lethal pathogen of amphibians, in climate change conditions
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Luis Silva
Evolution of host resistance and tolerance to a bacterial infection
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Thursday, June 17, 2021

Baptiste Elie
The source of individual heterogeneity shapes infectious disease outbreaks
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Elodie Simphor
Selection of two sub-populations Biomphalaria glabrata for their resistance and susceptibility to Schistosoma Mansoni
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Camila Souza Beraldo
Phylogenetic signal and correlation in host susceptibility to different viruses
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Emily Stevens
Investigating how host microbiota affects the evolution of pathogen virulence
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Rocío Lucía Tau
Evidence of new recombinations among equid herpesvirus
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Sarah Walsh
A bacteria-phage system for the investigation of virus host shifts
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Claudia Wyer
Experimental evolution reveals the genetic architecture of sexual selection in the Yellow Fever mosquito Aedes aegypti
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Jason Walsman
Social hosts have deadlier parasites: parasite virulence among wild guppy populations is predicted by predation-driven host social behaviour
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