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Cary Conference 2005
Schedule for Day 1 with confirmed speakers

Effects of Ecosystems on Disease

   Moderator: Clive Jones, Institute of Ecosystem Studies

8:30 Introduction and announcements
   Gene Likens, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
   Richard Ostfeld, Institute of Ecosystem Studies
8:45 Effects of host diversity on disease dynamics
   Michael Begon, University of Liverpool
9:15 The role of vector diversity in disease dynamics
   Alison Power, Cornell University
9:45 Epidemiological interaction among pathogens
   Pejman Rohani, University of Georgia
10:15 Break
10:30 Influence of eutrophication on disease in aquatic ecosystems: Patterns, processes, and prediction
   Pieter Johnson, University of Wisconsin
11:00 Landscape structure, disturbance, and disease dynamics
   Hamish McCallum, University of Queensland
11:30 Effects of climate on disease dynamics
   David Rogers, Oxford University
12:00 Group Photo - outside of Auditorium
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Discussion groups
3:30 Free time
5:00 Keynote address:
Like a Braided River: Infections, evolution, and food webs
   Joel Cohen, Rockefeller and Columbia Universities
6:00 Dinner
8:00 Dessert poster session