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In August I joined thousands of ecologists from all around the world in the first virtual meeting for the Ecological Society of America. I presented work on diversity-disease relationships and adapted my recent models and metrics of competence to an amphibian-trematode system.
Talk title: Toward a mechanistic understanding of competence: investigating a missing link in diversity-disease theory |
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In February I was honored to visit Cornell University and give both a research seminar and a chalk talk on the importance of parasites in freshwater ecosystems, and how we can better understand the environmental conditions under which they spread.
Talk title: Hidden parasites in aquatic ecosystems: understanding disease in lakes through the lens of host traits |
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In February I also had the pleasure of hanging out with the Meghan Duffy lab at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor for collaborations and to provide training in Daphnia immune techniques. I presented a departmental seminar on how individual host susceptibility traits scale up to affect population-level disease dynamics in natural Daphnia populations.
Talk title: Variable immunity and its consequences for parasite dynamics |
