Berkeley EEID Seminar and Happy Hour
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We host a weekly research seminar on Wednesdays 1:00-2:00pm PST in VLSB 4110, and on Zoom for those who want to join from afar, to share work across lab groups and departments. This seminar is open to upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and fellows, and professors doing research related to the ecology and evolution of infectious disease within and beyond UC Berkeley.
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Seminar Schedule
Fall 2022
Date |
Presenter(s) |
Title(s) |
Aug 31 |
Britt Koskella and Mike Boots |
Introduction to the seminar series and one another |
Sept 7 |
Dominique Holtappels |
Bacterial and phage adaptation shape infection efficiency, bacterial virulence and biocontrol potential of phages |
Sept 14 |
Chadi Saad-Roy |
Modelling SARS-CoV-2 immuno-epidemiology |
Sept 21 |
Graham Northrup |
How to model the most effective testing regimen for COVID 19 |
Sept 28 |
No seminar |
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Oct 5 |
Britt Koskella |
Microbiomes and Disease: where are we? |
Oct 12 |
Jean Vila and Jaime Lopez |
'directed evolution in microbial communities' and 'the consequences of microbes that switch from commensal to pathogenic on communities' |
Oct 19 |
Dylan Beal |
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Oct 26 |
Simon, Jennifer, and Mandy |
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Nov 2 |
Monica Arniella |
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Nov 9 |
Nina Sokolov |
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Nov 16 |
Chris LeBoa / Claire Evensen |
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Nov 30 |
Valmic Mukund / Natalie and Noah |
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Dec 7 |
Signe White / Claudine Tahmin |
Caterpillar Movement, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Food Viscosity: A silent film Unraveling the mechanism of Powdery Mildew - Host Lipid Regulatory Shift |
Fall 2021
Sign up for presentation slots and/or nominate an external speaker here!
Date |
Presenter |
Title |
Aug 25th |
Britt Koskella and Mike Boots |
Introduction to the seminar series and one another |
Sept 1 |
All |
Course planning |
Sept 8 |
Monica Donegan |
Genetic Evolution of a Plant Pathogen Host Shift |
Sept 15 |
-- |
Cancelled |
Sept 22 |
Graham Northrup |
TBD |
Sept 29 |
Emily Dewald-Wang |
Bacteria-phage coevolution in the horse chestnut phyllosphere |
Oct 6 |
Elisa Visher |
Practice post-doc talk |
Oct 13 |
QinQin Yu |
SAR-CoV-2 lineage frequency time series fluctuate more than expected from standard epidemiological models |
Oct 20 |
Emma Steigerwald |
Disease dynamics of the world's highest elevation amphians during expansion into deglaciating terrain |
Oct 27 |
Hold for folks in seminar series |
TBD |
Nov 3 |
Sara Herrejon |
TBD |
Nov 10 |
Laura Alexander |
Dengue modeling (POSTPONED) |
Nov 17 |
Sarah Guth |
Epigenetic approach to modeling |
Nov 24 |
-- |
Non-instructional day |
Dec 1 |
Nina Sokolov |
Sierra bee viruses |
Dec 8 |
Laura Alexander |
Dengue modeling |
Fall 2020
Date |
Presenter(s) |
Topic |
Sept 2 |
A versatile COVID-19 Web App for epidemiologists and policy analysts to manage outbreaks with application to outbreaks in England, South Africa, and Israel |
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Sept 9 |
*break* |
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Sept 16 |
Thermal ecology of infectious disease: lessons from mosquito-transmitted human pathogens and a Daphnia-fungal pathogen |
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Sept 23 |
Modelling anti-vaccine sentiment as a cultural pathogen |
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Sept 30 |
Participatory syndromic surveillance as a tool for tracking COVID-19 in Bangladesh |
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Oct 7 |
Adaptive evolution of an emerging infectious pathogen in a novel host |
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Oct 14 |
Competition, virulence, and resistance evolution in bacteria |
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Oct 21 |
Biogeography in plant pathogen X. fastidiosa |
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Oct 28 |
Among-Host Variability its Consequences for Communities and Individuals: Three Short Stories |
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Nov 4 |
Toxicants and infection in wildlife: meta-analysis, modeling, and flying foxes |
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Nov 11 |
The Ecology Within: Within-host microorganism communities & their impact on disease in the wild |
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Nov 18 |
Impact of Wolbachia and dengue virus infection on thermal tolerance in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes |
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Nov 25 |
*Break* |
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Dec 2 |
Repeated introductions and intensive community transmission fueled a mumps virus outbreak in Washington State |
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Dec 9 |
Malaria dynamics within the mosquito (11am PST) |
Summer 2020
Date |
Presenter(s) |
Topic |
May 13 |
*break* |
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May 20 |
"Asynchrony between virus diversity and antibody selection limits influenza virus evolution" |
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May 27 |
"The Evolutionary Ecology of Host-Parasite Range" |
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June 3 |
*Pause* |
Postponed: Please watch Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Anti-Racist" talk |
June 10 |
*Pause* |
Postponed: #ShutDownStem |
June 17 |
"Anthropogenic food subsidies as a cross-scale driver of wildlife disease dynamics" |
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June 24 |
"Unexpected costs of host range expansion in an RNA virus" |
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July 1 |
"Landscapes of disgust: The inevitable consequence of parasite avoidance" |
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July 8 |
"Understanding the evolution of infectious disease at the invasion front " |
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July 15 |
"Virus evolution under drought conditions" |
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July 22 |
"Ecology of wild plant-pathogen interactions across spatial and temporal scales: from individual hosts in the growing season to regional dynamics over winter" |
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July 29 |
"Adaptation to uncertainty: parasite evolution in diverse host populations" |
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August 5 |
"Serial transmission of a key honey bee pathogen influences variant populations and titers" |
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August 12 |
"Hot hosts, hot species, and hotspots: Unraveling how heterogeneity across scales affects the dynamics of disease in amphibian communities" |
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August 19 |
"Identifiability and indirect transmission: Positive lessons from a (probably) negative result" |
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August 26 |
"Is symbiosis scale free?" |
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Fall 2020 Schedule Coming Soon.... |
Spring 2020
Date |
Presenter |
Presentation Title |
Jan 22 |
Koskella, Boots |
Welcome to the Seminar, Introduction |
Jan 29 |
Graham Northrup |
Self-matched inference of naturally-acquired immunity via negative-control endpoints |
Feb 5 |
Michael Shapira |
Using C. elegans to study the role of host genetics in shaping microbiome structure and function |
Feb 12 |
Emily Ebel (Stanford) |
Common genetic and phenotypic variation in healthy human red cells impacts the fitness of malaria parasites |
Feb 19 |
Cara Brook |
Deciphering mechanisms of viral hosting in bat reservoirs for emerging zoonotic disease |
Feb 26 |
Carly Rozins |
Strengthening One Health through Agriculture Disease Informatics |
Mar 4 |
Alison Feder |
Journal Club: "Limited evolution despite years of measurable viremia in a cARTtreated seronegative HIV-1 positive individual " |
Mar 11 |
Christopher Hoover |
*Cancelled due to Covid-19 measures* |
Mar 18 |
Andreina Castillo Siri |
*Cancelled due to Covid-19 measures* |
Mar 25 |
Tomas Leon |
Zoom Journal Club: "Reduced dengue incidence following deployments of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: a quasi-experimental trial using controlled interrupted time series analysis" |
Apr 1 |
Marie Lilly (SFSU) |
Zoom Talk: "Community ecology in California driving genetic variation and infectivity of Lyme disease etiological agent" |
Apr 8 |
Chris Hoover |
Zoom Journal Club: "Covid-19 Models Journal Club" |
Apr 15 |
Matthew Silk (Exeter) |
Zoom Talk: "Why is bovine tuberculosis endemic in high-density badger populations?" |
Apr 22 |
Rachel Baker (Princeton) |
Zoom Talk: "Susceptible supply limits the role of climate in the COVID-19 pandemic" |
Apr 29 |
Nicole Nova (Stanford) |
Zoom Talk: "Empirical dynamic modeling reveals ecological drivers of dengue dynamics" |
May 6 |
Nina Sokolov |
Zoom Talk: "Understanding the impact of crop pollination on virus ecology in managed and native bees" |
Fall 2019
Date |
Presenter |
Presentation Title |
Aug 27 |
Britt Koskella, Mike Boots |
Welcome, Introduction to the Seminar Series |
Sept 3 |
Rodrigo Almeida |
"Ecological Genomics of an Emerging Bacterial Plant Pathogen" |
Sept 10 |
Steve Parratt (Liverpool) |
“The enemy of my enemy… the impact of a hyperparasite on a plant pathogen" |
Sept 17 |
Wayne Getz |
"Quantitative narratives in disease ecology and the recent outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone" |
Sept 24 |
Cara Brook |
"Understanding bats as reservoirs for emerging infectious disease" |
Oct 1 |
Christopher Hoover |
"Density Dependence and the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases" |
Oct 8 |
Greg Albery (Georgetown) |
“Social networks, spatial networks, parasites, and deer" |
Oct 15 (2pm) |
Ayesha Mahmud |
"Megacities as drivers of national outbreaks: The role of holiday travel in the spread of infectious diseases" |
Oct 22 |
Tomas Leon |
"Incorporating environmental variables into mosquito gene drive modelling: fine-scale dispersal, temperature, and landscape-dependent connectivity" |
Oct 29 |
Saki Takahashi (UCSF) |
"Characterizing re-emergence patterns of dengue in Brazil" |
Nov 5 |
Lewis Bartlett (UGA) |
"Evolutionary Beekeeping – Trade-Offs, Outcomes, and Dangers" |
Nov 12 |
Elisa Visher |
"The Evolution of Host Genotype Specialization in an Insect Pathogen" |
Nov 19 |
Sam Slowinski |
"How parasites maintain high outcrossing rates in coevolving host populations: testing for parasite-mediated changes in host outcrossing propensity and survival of selfed versus outcrossed hosts" |
Nov 26 |
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~~Thanksgiving, No Meeting~~ |
Dec 3 |
Kacie Ring (SFSU) |
"Host blood meal’s influence on microbiome composition and pathogen acquisition in Ixodes pacificus" |
Dec 10 |
Carly Rozins |
"The Perception kernel - vector decision making and disease transmission in heterogeneous host populations" |
