EEID at Cornell
A multi-disciplinary program that brings together a variety of faculty from throughout Cornell, who have many different strengths and who combine the interests of several programs.
Our goals are to understand the many different interactions between the natural environments, the organisms that make up the different ecosystems, and the pathogens and symbionts that infect different plants and animals.
Participants span the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Arts and Sciences and Veterinary College and represent a range of Departments, including Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Entomology, Microbiology and Immunology, Populations Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, and Plant Pathology.
We maintain a Listserve that allows us to communicate on an occasional basis with people in the program - about seminars, journal clubs, and meetings. To join (subscribe) send an e-mail message to: EEID-L-request@cornell.edu
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Chytridiomycosis in Lithobates yavapaiensis, a declining leopard frog native to the southwestern United States
New NSF workshop
Professor Drew Harvell and collegues at Friday Harbor, University of Washington, are offering an NSF sponsored workshop this summer in the Ecology of Infectious Marine Diseases. The workshop is limited to students, with applications due beginning February 1, 2012.
Program Areas
There are a variety of areas of study, including the role of climate in the incidence of disease, the study of pathogens in enviroments, and the dynamics of pathogen and host evolution in various ecosystems. The specific effects of climate change in the changes in disease incidence and distribution are of particular interest to us.
- Disease and Climate Change
- Pathogen Variation and Evolution
- Roles of Pathogens in Ecosystem Dynamics
- Interactions of Symbionts with their Hosts
- Innate or Adaptive Immunity and Host Susceptibility
- Evolution and Emergence of Pathogens in New Hosts
Recent Cornell EEID News
“Stud or dud?”
Faculty member Laura Harrington and colleagues have been studying the mating behavior of the Dengue Vector Mosquito. Females, formerly thought to be deaf, assess male reproductive fitness in a duet with their potential mating partners. The two match frequencies at a shared harmonic of 1200 Hz prior to mating. This discovery has implications for the production of transgenic sterile males which might be released to diminish the mating potential of females. To hear Laura Harrington and Ronald Hoy discuss their findings, click on the podcast. Their publication can be found in the January 8th of Science. Link to the Sciencexpress version of the article.
related cornell programs
Cornell Center for Sustainable Futures
Cornell Program in Virology
