Room 5: Natural history of pathogens

Monday, June 14, 2021

Julia Buck
A newly-discovered didymozoid trematode infecting the gill of its first intermediate host, the bay scallop
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Kathryn Campbell
Rabies MAD DOG (Method for Assignment, Definition and Designation Of Global lineages)
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Diego Caraballo
Phylogenetic study of a Rabies terrestrial variant in South America
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Agata Delnicka
Fitness of parasitic gut nematode, Heligmosomoides polygyrus, in male and female wood mice
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Maxwell Farrell
Building a comparative database of sites of infection via text mining
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Lindsay Faw
Is LACV lineage III a potential public health risk?
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Francisco Ferreira
Transcriptomic response of Hawai’i’s Culex mosquitoes to the local avian Plasmodium relictum
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Ron Flatau
Wolbachia endosymbionts of fleas occur in all females but rarely in males and do not show evidence of obligatory relationships, fitness effects, or sex-distorting manipulations
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Janan Gawra
Epi(genetic) determinants of resistance in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas: A case study in natural population
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Megan Griffiths
Longitudinal deep sequencing of vampire bat betaherpesvirus reveals a promising candidate vector for transmissible rabies vaccines
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Ryan Imrie
Between virus correlations in the outcome of infection across host species: evidence of virus genotype by host species interactions
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Julie Isaïa
Last-come, best served? Mosquito biting order and Plasmodium transmission
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Macy Kailing
Sex-biased infections and mortality in a multi-host fungal pathogen of bats
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Nick Keiser
Resurrection of a study system: Social spiders as a tool in behavioral disease ecology
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Chrystelle Lasica
Is the cercarial emission rhythm of the parasite Schistosoma mansoni circadian?
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Erik Lavington
Quantifying protein diversity in rapidly evolving genomes
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Silvina Soledad Maidana
Whole-genome analysis of one natural interspecific recombinant strain between bovine alphaherpesviruses 1 and 5
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Nadya Muchoney
Use of an introduced host plant enhances resistance against densovirus infection in a native insect herbivore
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Essowe Palanga
Complete genome sequence of a novel marafivirus infecting pearl millet in Burkina Faso
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Katariina Puolakka
Trypanosomatid Infections and their Effects on Drosophila lummei fruit fly
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Molly Simonis
Eptesicus fuscus with chronic Pseudogymnoascus destructans exposure weigh less in northern latitudes compared to southern latitudes
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Thursday, June 17, 2021

David Simons
Rodent population assemblages in West Africa and their potential zoonotic pathogens: A scoping review
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Rachel Sippy
Diversity of Dengue Lineages in Bangkok, Thailand, 1973—2014
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Amanda Stahlke
Contemporary and historical selection in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) support novel, polygenic response to transmissible cancer
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Rachel Welicky
Parasites of the past: Ninety years of change in the abundance of parasites infecting English sole (Parophrys vetulus) of Puget Sound, USA
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Richard AJ Williams
Molecular identification of papillomavirus in Swedish birds
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Hao Yiu
Drivers of copy number variation in adaptive immune receptor V gene families of the great apes
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