Diseases, Microbes and Geography: Ecological determinants of microbes over space and time

September 25, 2009

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Sign In

8:30 a.m. Introduction – Betsy Foxman, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology and Director Center for Molecular and Clinical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (MAC-EPID), University of Michigan

8:42 a.m. Introduction – Darlene Bhavnani, MPH

8:45 a.m. “Drivers of freshwater bacterial community assembly over expanding scales of space and time” – Trina McMahon, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:45 a.m. Break

9:57 a.m. Introduction – Gregg Davis, MS, MPH

10:00 a.m. “Spatial hierarchies in the transmission dynamics of pertussis” – Pejman Rohani, PhD, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Professor, Complex Systems, University of Michigan

11:00 a.m. Break

11:12 a.m. Introduction – Erika Flannery, MPH

11:15 a.m. “TB molecular and spatial clusters in the context of urban slum health in developing countries' ”– Jonathan Mayer, PhD, Professor, Department of Geography and Epidemiology, University of Washington

12:15 – 2:00 p.m. Luncheon + Round tables (location SPH I, 3755)

· Session I: “Distribution, organization, and ecology of bacteria in chronic wounds”, Blaise Boles, PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan and Justin Henderson

· Session II: “Microbial Facebook: using social networking as an analogy for understanding microbial community interactions”, Patrick Schloss, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan and Joseph Zackular

· Session III: “Looking inside the bacterial cell”, Janine Maddock, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan and Meghan Milbrath, IPID trainee