[Coral-List] Ocean Sciences Meeting: Session 78: Ecology of Infectious Marine Disease in a Changing Climate

[Catherine JS Kim]

 Dear all,
As the deadline for abstract approaches this Friday please consider the
Ecology of Infectious Marine Disease in a Changing Climate session.
 Information below for the Ocean Sciences
Meeting<http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2014/default.asp> in
Honolulu, February 23-28, 2014.  For submitting abstracts, please note, its
under Category A "Microbiology and Molecular Biology", and is session #78.

Thank you and we hope to see you there!

Drew, Eileen & Colleen

*078 - Ecology of Infectious Marine Disease in a Changing
Climate<http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2014/sessionschedule.asp?SessionID=078>
* Marine infectious diseases are increasingly impacting critical coastal
ecosystems from tropical coral reefs to temperate seagrasses in our
changing ocean. Climate- related outbreaks of disease have the capacity to
re- shape entire ecosystems, cause diseases in humans, and affect fisheries
and aquaculture. Climate change is affecting the physiology, distribution,
and interactions of marine organisms, including aquatic pathogens, and
consequently the populations of organisms they influence. This session will
bring together researchers with an ecological perspective that focuses on
microbial interactions and the conditions that facilitate the transition
from associate to opportunistic pathogen. This session will integrate the
new tools needed to study changing microbial interactions in the
global ocean including diagnostics, genomics, modeling, forecasting, and
satellite remote sensing. A critical new focus includes incorporating the
human user dimension, including social science research focused on risk
communication, management, and economics of Climate-Disease synergisms. We
encourage contributions that address effects of climate variables such as
temperature, acidification, and warming- related eutrophication on changing
risk of disease in marine organisms or humans. Category

A - Microbiology and Molecular
Biology<http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2014/sessionlist.asp?id=1>
 Organizers

Drew Harvell, Cornell University
cdh5 at cornell.edu<cdh5 at cornell.edu?cc=hofmann at ccpo.odu.edu,colleenaburge at gmail.com>

Eileen Hofmann, Old Dominion University
hofmann at ccpo.odu.edu<hofmann at ccpo.odu.edu?cc=cdh5 at cornell.edu,colleenaburge at gmail.com>

Colleen Burge, Cornell University
colleenaburge at gmail.com<colleenaburge at gmail.com?cc=cdh5 at cornell.edu,hofmann at ccpo.odu.edu>