Upcoming conferences and symposia!

Members of our team have been accepted for both oral presentations and poster presentations at various upcoming conferences!

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The Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Conference will be held May 26-29, 2015 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia (link).

Mr. Nicholas Clark will be giving an oral presentation at EEID, with the title: "Biogeographical variation in blood parasite coinfections (avian malaria and microfilaria) in congeneric island birds: a mosaic of parasite-mediated selection?" (Authors: Nicholas J Clark, Sonya M Clegg).
Dr. Jaewoon Jeong will be presenting a poster at EEID "Modelling transmission dynamics of a novel Alphacoronavirus in an Australian population of large-footed myotis (Myotis macropus)".
Mr. John Giles will be presenting a poster at EEID.
Prof. Hamish McCallum will be presenting a poster at EEID.

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The Wildlife Disease Association's (WDA) annual International Conference will be held July 26-30, 2015 at Novotel Twin Waters resort in the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia (link).

Assistant Professor Raina Plowright will be a Plenary Speaker at the WDA: "Spillover: dynamics of cross-species transmission".
Dr. Jaewoon Jeong will be giving an oral presentation at WDA: "Modelling transmission dynamics of a novel Alphacoronavirus in an Australian population of large-footed myotis (Myotis macropus)".
Mr. John Giles will be giving an oral presentation at WDA: "Determining the role of fruit bat population dynamics in the emergence of Hendra virus in Australia".
Dr. Laura Grogan will be giving an oral presentation at WDA: "Evolution of resistance to chytridiomycosis is associated with a robust early immune response in a wild amphibian" (Authors: Laura F. Grogan, Scott D. Cashins, Lee Berger, Lee F. Skerratt, Michael S. McFadden, Peter Harlow, David A. Hunter, Ben C. Scheele, Jason Mulvenna)
Dr. Alison Peel will be presenting a poster at WDA: "Paramyxoviruses in Australian flying-foxes: each to their own?" (Authors: Alison J. Peel, Olivier Restif, Victoria Boyd, Lauren Goldspink, Gary Crameri, Daniel Edson, Hamish McCallum, Craig S. Smith)

Mr. Nicholas Clark will be presenting a poster at WDA: "Specialist enemies and exotic weapons: avian malaria in Australia's invasive common myna" (Authors: Nicholas J Clark, Farah Ishtiaq, Sophie Olsson-Pons, Sonya M Clegg)

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The International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) will be held August 2-6, 2015 in Montpellier, France (link).

Professor Hamish McCallum will be giving an oral presentation at ICCB: "Trophic cascades following disease-induced decline of the Tasmanian devil".

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The 2015 Ecological Society of America (ESA) annual meeting will be held August 10-14, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA (link).

Professor Hamish McCallum will be giving an oral presentation at ESA: "Habitat fragmentation and the transmission and emergence of pathogens across habitat boundaries".

Look out for our team members at the upcoming conferences/symposia! Hope to see you there!