NYU Hosted Symposium on Bird Malaria - 13th October, 2005

Program:

10:15AM – 11:00 Bagels, coffee, etc

11:00 – 11:30 KAREN DAY – NYU Parasitology
Welcome and introduction

11:30 – 12:30 ROB FLEISCHER – Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Trouble in paradise: interactions of invasive diseases and vectors with the native Hawaiian avifauna

12:30– 1:15 JANE CARLTON – TIGR
Comparative genomics of Plasmodium parasites

1:15 – 2:00 LUNCH

2:00 – 2:45 BEN SHELDON – University of Oxford
Spatial ecology and individual differences in avian malaria infections

2:45 – 3:30 UTE FREVERT - NYU Parasitology
Plasmodium sporozoite migration in the mammalian and avian host

3:30 – 4:00 ELLEN MARTINSEN – University of Vermont
Biodiversity of avian malaria parasites

4:00 – 4:30 MARI KIMURA – Cornell University
Phylogeographic patterns of avian Plasmodium lineages in the House finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)

4:30 – 5:00 CATHERINE COSGROVE & SARAH KNOWLES – University of Oxford
Evolutionary ecology of avian malaria parasites

5:00 – 5:30 KAREN DAY
Round up of day

Symposium will take place in the first floor Parasitology Department Seminar Room.

Any questions, please contact Beccy Stafford-Allen (212) 263-4361.