Berkeley EEID Seminar and Happy Hour
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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
Date |
Presenter |
Presentation Title |
Jan 22 |
Koskella, Boots |
Welcome to the Seminar, Introduction |
Jan 29 |
Graham Northrup |
TBD |
Feb 5 |
Michael Shapira |
TBD |
Feb 12 |
Emily Ebel (Stanford) |
TBD |
Feb 19 |
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Feb 26 |
Cara Brook |
Practice Chalk Talk |
Mar 4 |
Alison Feder |
Journal Club |
Mar 11 |
Christopher Hoover |
TBD |
Mar 18 |
Andreina Castillo Siri |
TBD |
Mar 25 |
Tomas Leon |
TBD |
Apr 1 |
Marie Lilly (SFSU) |
"Community ecology in California driving genetic variation and infectivity of Lyme diseaseetiological agent" |
Apr 8 |
Laura Alexander |
TBD |
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 |
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" |
