Speakers

Francisco Ayala, UC Irvine, USA
Talk title: Whence Plasmodium falciparum? A new understanding of its evolutionary origin

Jane M. Carlton, New York University, USA
Talk title: Parasite Genomics: The next generation

Keith Crandall, George Washington University, USA
Talk Title: Bioinformatic approaches to study pathogen evolution

Charles D. Criscione, Texas A&M University, USA
Talk title: Testing the null hypothesis of local scale panmixia: Providing insights into the cryptic ecology, evolution and epidemiology of metazoan animal parasites

Brian Foley, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Talk title: Molecular epidemiology: Comparing and contrasting the evolution and epidemiology of HIV-1 to HTLV, HCV, HBV and other viruses

Sébastien Gagneux, Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Talk title: Host-pathogen co-evolution in human tuberculosis

William P. Hanage, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Talk title: Whole genome epidemiology: Case studies and potential for the future

Barry N. Kreiswirth, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA
Talk title: A molecular epidemiologist's view of Mycobacterium tuberculosis evolution and pathogenesis

Marie-Anne Shaw, University of Leeds, UK
Talk title: 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others' - exploring the genetics of susceptibility to infectious disease.

Frédéric Simard, IRD, Montpellier, France
Talk title: Population genetics, evolution and epidemiological role of main mosquito vector species

David R. Soll, The University of Iowa, USA
Talk title: The evolution of new signal transduction pathways involved in fungal pathogenesis

Michel Tibayrenc, IRD, Montpellier, France
Talk title: Population genetics of microbial pathogens

Seth Walk, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Talk title: Meet the neighbors: Discovery of cryptic Escherichia clades changes our understanding of E. coli evolution

Scott Weaver, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
Talk title: Adaptive evolution and arboviral emergence