Berkeley EEID Seminar and Happy Hour
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We host a weekly research seminar on Wednesdays from 3:00-4:00 pm PST on Zoom to share work across lab groups and departments. We excited to use the Zoom format to include graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and fellows, and professors doing research related to the ecology and evolution of infectious disease beyond UC Berkeley.
The seminar schedule for Fall will be announced soon. We will be holding seminar over Zoom on Wednesdays 1:00-2:00pm PST. |
Seminar Schedule
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" |
