What limits pathogen host range? - CIIE Winter Workshop
We are pleased to announce that the Centre’s Winter Workshop will be held on Tuesday, 8th December 2009 in Lecture Theatre 1 in Ashworth Labs. This will be an all-day event. Please register using the form below.
Please note the lecture theatre change from LT 3 to LT1!
The central question “what limits host range?” i.e. what are the molecular and ecological constraints that determine why some pathogens are specific to a single host, while others can infect many hosts, is a key concern as host shifts and disease emergence threaten human and wildlife health. In this symposium, we have a broad programme of speakers, ranging from molecular epidemiologists to disease ecologists, and working on systems such as avian flu to fungal pathogens of plants.
Programme
10:00 Amy Pedersen (University of Edinburgh)
What limits host range?
10:15 Roman Biek (University of Glasgow)
Especially a generalist or generally a specialist? Ecological and genetic determinants of host specificity in rabies virus
10:45 Paul Sharp (University of Edinburgh)
Cross-species transmissions of AIDS viruses
11:15-12:00 Coffee
12:00 Mike Brockhurst (University of Liverpool)
Coevolution and phage host-range: unraveling the genetic basis
12:30 Graham Stone (University of Edinburgh)
Why do some parasitoid wasps attack some insect hosts and not others? The role of gall extended phenotypes in oak gallwasp communities
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00 James Cook (University of Reading)
Host specificity in fig wasps: the roles of chemistry, ecology and morphology
14:30 Dan Haydon (University of Glasgow)
Why are there so many kinds of viruses?
15:00 Heather Ferguson (University of Glasgow)
Ecological and evolutionary determinants of host species choice in malaria vectors
15:30- 16:30 Coffee
16:30 Debbie Smith (York University)
Leishmania pathogenesis: parasite, vector, host
17:00 Michael Hood (Amherst College, USA)
Phylogenetic and life history determinants of potential host shifts in obligate fungal pathogens
17:30-19:00 Discussion, drinks and (finger food) dinner
There will also be poster presentations viewable throughout the day
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More details to follow.
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