Key Words: Vector-borne disease, Epidemiology, Invasive species

Eco-IGERT Students involved in this area: Carrie Donkor, Mathematics; Geoff Hosack, Fisheries and Wildlife; Sean Moore, Zoology; Tiffany Vance, Geography; Phoebe Zarnetske, Zoology

Eco-IGERT Faculty involved in this area: Vrushali Bokil, Mathematics; Elizabeth Borer, Zoology; Nathan Gibson, Mathematics; Alix Gitelman, Statistics; Sally Hacker, Zoology; Selina Heppell, Fisheries and Wildlife; Peter McEvoy, Botany and Plant Pathology; Phil Rossignol, Fisheries and Wildlife; Eric Seabloom, Zoology; John Selker, Biological and Ecological Engineering; Weng-Keen Wong, Computer Science; Dawn Wright, Geography;

Selected Publications:

Banks, H. T. , Bokil, V. A., Hu, S. ,Dhar, A. K. , Bullis, R. A. , Browdy, C. L.  &  Allnutt, F.C.T. 2006.Modeling Shrimp Biomass and Viral Infection for Production of Biological Countermeasures Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 3, 635-660.

Borer, E. T., Briggs, C.T., and Holt, R.D. 2007. Predators, parasitoids, and pathogens: a cross-cutting examination of intraguild predation theory. Ecology 88(11): 2681-2688.

Hosack, G. R., K. R. Hayes, and J. M. Dambacher. In press. Assessing uncertainty in the structure of ecological models through a qualitative analysis of system feedback and Bayesian Belief Networks. Ecological Applications.

Moore, S. and Borer, E. (In review). Predators indirectly control vector-borne disease: linking predator-prey and host pathogen models. American Naturalist.

Shen, Y., Wong, W-K., Levander, J.&  Cooper, G.F. (2007) An outbreak detection algorithm that efficiently performs complete Bayesian model averaging over all possible spatial distributions of disease. Advances in Disease Surveillance, 4, pp 113.