[Coral-List] Fwd: Graduate Course at Friday Harbor Labs: Ecology of Infectious Marine Disease

[Dr. C. Mark Eakin]

> Dear All:
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> Please circulate to your students and postdocs— The sooner folks apply the best chance they will have for good financial aid. We do have NSF scholarships and Friday Harbor also has financial aid. Its been a fantastic course, if we do say so!
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> Cheers, Drew
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> Drew Harvell
> Professor
> http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/harvell/Welcome.html
> http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/ecologymarinedisease/Home/Home.html
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> Infectious diseases of marine organisms are on the increase, and yet processes governing host infectivity and pathogen virulence are  poorly known, especially for non-commercial marine invertebrates. Indeed, one of the emerging frontiers in ocean research is invertebrate-microbial interactions.  This course is a training program in invertebrate-pathogen ecology that will bring together and train the future leaders in this rapidly emerging, multidisciplinary field. The course will 1) survey host-pathogen interaction in the Friday Harbor region, 2) teach diagnostic tools for identifying viral, bacterial, protozoan and fungal infections of invertebrates, 3) teach approaches to examine the invertebrate innate immune response to different pathogens, and finally 4) use these methods to address ecological questions about the distribution of pathogenic interactions, and the experimental effects of temperature and increased acidification on interactions.