On May 4-6, 2015, the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine (TriCEM), the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the Duke Tropical Conservation Initiative (DTCI) will be hosting a Catalysis Meeting on "Biodiversity, Conservation and Infectious Disease."
The goal of the meeting is to understand how conservation and changes in biodiversity impact infectious disease risk in humans and wildlife. The meeting will be composed of approximately 10 researchers from Research Triangle universities (Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State, and NC Central), with another 25 participants from outside the Triangle. All travel expenses will be covered for non-Triangle participants. In building the participant list, we seek a wide range of interests, approaches, and experience levels. Thus, we welcome modeling approaches, field biologists, and those with expertise in meta-analysis, and graduate students, postdocs, and faculty. At the meeting, we will work toward specific outputs, which will include a special "theme" issue in a high-impact journal that synthesizes diverse views on this important topic, and development of future working groups to investigate specific questions in greater depth. For those wishing to participate in the Catalysis Meeting - including scientists from the Research Triangle Universities - we ask that you fill out a brief application at this link: http://goo.gl/forms/LuCWB5Vhgm -- Hillary S Young Noble Hall 2116 Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA Phone: 805-893-4681 http://www.eemb.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/young
