Schedule

 

Date Instructor Reading Topic
Aug 13 Drake Introduction
Aug 20 Strand Handout Mosquitoes as vectors of infectious diseases
Aug 27 Hall Murray et al. (2016) Food subsidy and wildlife diseases
Sep 3 NO CLASS
Sep 10 Gottdenker Gottdenker et al. (2014) Deforestation and disease transmission
Sep 17* Murdock Tesla et al. (2018) Vector-borne diseases
Sep 24 Handel Handel et al. (2017) Computer models of infectious diseases
Oct 1 Byers Keogh et al. (2017) Trematode parasites
Oct 8 Ezenwa Ezenwa et al. (2016) Social living and parasitism
Oct 15 Altizer Satterfield et al. (2015) Animal migration and parasitism
Oct 22 Park Bharti et al. (2011) Measles in Niger
Oct 29* Schmidt Schmidt, J.P. et al. (2017) Ebola spillover
Nov 5 Stephens Stephens et al. (2016) Parasite sharing in wild ungulates and their predators
Nov 12 Glenn Eisen & Eisen. (2018) Ticks and wildlife disease reservoirs
Nov 19 NO CLASS
Nov 26 Tredennick Han & Drake. (2016) Forecasting infectious diseases
Dec 3 Drake Wrap up

*Writing assignment due