Berkeley EEID Seminar and Happy Hour

We host a weekly research seminar on Wednesdays from 3:00-4:00 pm in VLSB 4110 to share work across lab groups and departments. Presenters are generally UC Berkeley graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and fellows, and professors who are doing research related to the ecology and evolution of microbial communities and infectious disease, though there will also occasionally be seminars given from visiting scholars. 

We also host a weekly Berkeley-EEID happy hour weekly after seminar at a location TBD.

Seminar Schedule

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	Covid-19 Models Journal Club
​Apr 15	Rachel Baker	TBD
Apr 22	​Kristin Andrejko	"Global prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in pediatric Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates before and after pneumococcal conjugate vaccine implementation"
Apr 29	​Nicole Nova (Stanford)	TBD
May 6	Nina Sokolov	TBD

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	~~	~~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"