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​BERKELEY ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Berkeley EEID Seminar and Happy Hour

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. 

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
-
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
Oct 26
Simon, Jennifer, and Mandy
Nov 2
Monica Arniella
Nov 9
Nina Sokolov
Nov 16
Chris LeBoa / Claire Evensen
Nov 30
Valmic Mukund / Natalie and Noah
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
Wayne Getz (Berkeley)
A versatile COVID-19 Web App for epidemiologists and policy analysts to manage outbreaks with application to outbreaks in England, South Africa, and Israel
Sept 9
*break*
 
Sept 16
Marta Shocket (UCLA)
Thermal ecology of infectious disease: lessons from mosquito-transmitted human pathogens and a Daphnia-fungal pathogen
Sept 23
Rohan Mehta (Emory)
Modelling anti-vaccine sentiment as a cultural pathogen
Sept 30
Ayesha Mahmud (Berkeley)
Participatory syndromic surveillance as a tool for tracking COVID-19 in Bangladesh
Oct 7
Camille Bonneaud (Exeter)
Adaptive evolution of an emerging infectious pathogen in a novel host
Oct 14
Amrita Bhattacharya (PennState)
Competition, virulence, and resistance evolution in bacteria
Oct 21
Andreina Castillo Siri (Berkeley)
Biogeography in plant pathogen X. fastidiosa
Oct 28
Stephen Ellner (Cornell)
Among-Host Variability its Consequences for Communities and Individuals: Three Short Stories
Nov 4
Cecilia Sánchez (UGA)
Toxicants and infection in wildlife: meta-analysis, modeling, and flying foxes
Nov 11
Amy Sweeny (Edinburgh)
The Ecology Within: Within-host microorganism communities & their impact on disease in the wild
Nov 18
Fhallon Ware-Gilmore (PennState)
Impact of Wolbachia and dengue virus infection on thermal tolerance in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
Nov 25
*Break*
 
Dec 2
Louise Moncla (Fred Hutch)
Repeated introductions and intensive community transmission fueled a mumps virus outbreak in Washington State
Dec 9
Olivia Prosper (UT)
Malaria dynamics within the mosquito (11am PST)

Summer 2020

Date
Presenter(s)
Topic
May 13
 
*break*
May 20
Dylan Morris (Princeton)
"Asynchrony between virus diversity and antibody selection limits influenza virus evolution"
May 27
Andrew Park (UGA)
"The Evolutionary Ecology of Host-Parasite Range"
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
Richard Hall (UGA)
"Anthropogenic food subsidies as a cross-scale driver of wildlife disease dynamics"
June 24
Lisa Bono (Rutgers)
"Unexpected costs of host range expansion in an RNA virus"
July 1
Greg Albery (Georgetown)
"Landscapes of disgust: The inevitable consequence of parasite avoidance"
July 8
Louise Nørgaard (Monash)
"Understanding the evolution of infectious disease at the invasion front "
July 15
Rubén González (Valencia)
"Virus evolution under drought conditions"
July 22
Rachel Penczykowski (WashU)
"Ecology of wild plant-pathogen interactions across spatial and temporal scales: from individual hosts in the growing season to regional dynamics over winter"
July 29
Amanda Gibson (UVA)
"Adaptation to uncertainty: parasite evolution in diverse host populations"
August 5
Allyson Ray (Penn State)
"Serial transmission of a key honey bee pathogen influences variant populations and titers​"
August 12
Mark Q Wilbur (UCSB)
"Hot hosts, hot species, and hotspots: Unraveling how heterogeneity across scales affects the dynamics of disease in amphibian communities"
August 19
Brandon Ogbunu (Brown)
"Identifiability and indirect transmission: Positive lessons from a (probably) negative result"
August 26
Colin Carlson (Georgetown)
"Is symbiosis scale free?"
 
 
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
~~
~~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"
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