Dear all, Please consider submitting an abstract to our session, *Scaling up: Marine infectious diseases from the molecule to the ecosystem* at the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans (February 21-26). Abstracts are due *Wednesday, 23 September 2015.*
*Session ID#: *9532 Session Description: Infectious diseases are key drivers that shape local biodiversity and are becoming increasingly important as anthropogenic change exacerbates disease processes. Despite this, parasites and pathogens are commonly overlooked or under-appreciated as drivers of ecology and biodiversity in many ecosystems. The establishment, severity, and outcome of disease are governed by numerous interactions within the host-pathogen-environment paradigm. A shift in these factors can lead to or away from a diseased state, and disease emergence is modulated by this interplay. The factors that impact disease outbreaks and severity occur across many scales of magnitude, from viruses-antigen interactions, to trait- and density-mediated responses of hosts to pathogens, to regional and global environmental oscillations. Understanding how processes interact across these scales to alter epidemiological patterns is an important challenge, for which numerous new multidisciplinary fields are emerging, including molecular epidemiology, eco-immunology, and ‘big data’ approaches. In this session, we invite contributions that investigate marine diseases across scales. Student participation is highly encouraged. Link to the session: https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9532 Link to the OSM meeting page: http://osm.agu.org/2016/ All the best, Colleen Burge On behalf of the co-chairs: Jamie Caldwell, Maya Groner & Ana Elisa Garcia Vedrenne -- Colleen Burge Assistant Professor INSTITUTE OF MARINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY University of Maryland Baltimore County Columbus Center 701 East Pratt Street Baltimore MD 21202 USA (410) 234-8834 (office) (410) 234-8835 (lab) [email protected]
