Spring 2007 Seminar Series:
Spotlight on UIUC-Based Research in Emerging Disease and Ecosystem Health

April 9
Thomas Gillespie, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Pathobiology, U. of Illinois
The role of land-use change and human-wildlife linkages in infectious disease emergence

April 16
Norha Mateus-Pinilla, Conservation Scientist, Illinois Natural History Survey
The Ecology of chronic wasting disease in northern Illinois deer populations

April 23
Bruce Fouke, Associate Professor of Geology & Microbiology, University of Illinois
Anthropogenic influences on black-band disease in coral

April 30
Bruce Hannon, Jubilee Professor of Geography, University of Illinois
The spatial dynamics of infectious disease

 

Fall 2007 Seminar Series:
Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives on Emerging Diseases and Ecosystem Health

September 20
Emilio Moran, James H. Rudy Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
Deforestation, environmental changes, and health in the Brazilian Amazon 

October 4
Armand Kuris, Associate Provost & Professor of Biology, UC Santa Barbara
The central role of parasites in ecosystem stability and health

November 1
Douglas Goodin, Professor of Geography, Kansas State University
Landscape hierarchy & spatial scale: a framework for the ecology of infectious disease

November 30
Dominic Travis, Vice-President for Science & Conservation, Lincoln Park Zoo
Ecosystem health surveillance in the national parks of Tanzania