Berkeley EEID Seminar and Happy Hour

We host a weekly research seminar on Tuesdays 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
​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)	TBD
Dec 10	Carly Rozins	TBD