Using Phylogenetics in an Epidemiologic Context 14OCT2011

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Paul Keim, Ph.D.

Regents Professor of Biology, Cowden Endowed Chair in Microbiology

Northern Arizona University

Topic: Molecular Epidemiology using whole genome sequences and evolutionary

principles - examples from plague, anthrax and cholera

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Luncheon/Round Table Discussion

• Session I: "Using Phylogenetics to Determine the Boundry of Bacterial Species" Nathan LaCross, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan

• Session II: "Phylodynamic land transmission model approaches to Public Health Surveillance", James Koopman, M.D., M.P.H, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan

• Session III: "Interactions in multi-pathogen systems", Sourya Shrestha, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan