Symposium: Animal Behavior and Disease Ecology: Past, Present, and Future - Princeton, New Jersey, August 9-14, 2014

动物行为在寄生虫和病原体的传播中起着核心作用。同样，寄生虫也是动物行为的关键驱动力。在过去的几十年里，疾病生态学一直是生态学中发展最快的分支学科之一。重要的是，动物行为学家在发展一些冲击这一领域的基本思想方面发挥了关键作用。在过去十年的一些理论和技术进展的基础上，我们将在2014年动物行为学会会议上主办一个关于动物行为和疾病生态学：过去、现在和未来的研讨会，将传统的动物行为学家和对行为感兴趣的疾病生态学家聚集在一起，探索这两个领域之间新出现的主题和综合点。研讨会将确定动物行为和疾病生态学交界处的重要新研究方向，包括行为影响宿主暴露和感染易感性和寄生虫传播动力学的方式，以及寄生虫在生态和进化时间内塑造动物行为模式的方式。它将为参加会议的研究生和本科生提供一个职业发展外展的平台。外展活动将为学生提供如何开始将行为与疾病生态相结合的研究的信息，并为学生提供一个场所，让他们与那些将这两个领域紧密结合在一起的专家建立联系。

Animal behavior plays a central role in the transmission of parasites and pathogens. Likewise, parasites are crucial drivers of animal behavior. Over the past few decades, disease ecology has been one of the fastest growing sub-disciplines of ecology. Importantly, animal behaviorists have played a crucial role in developing some fundamental ideas that impinge on this field. Building on a number of theoretical and technical advances throughout the last decade, we will host a symposium on Animal Behavior and Disease Ecology: Past, Present, and Future at the 2014 Animal Behavior Society meeting to bring together traditional animal behaviorists and disease ecologists interested in behavior to explore emerging topics and points of synthesis between the two fields.The symposium will identify important new research directions at the interface of animal behavior and disease ecology including the ways in which behavior affects host exposure and susceptibility to infection and parasite transmission dynamics, as well as means by which parasites shape patterns of animal behavior in both ecological and evolutionary time. It will provide a platform for professional development outreach to graduate and undergraduate students attending the meeting. Outreach activities will provide students with information on how to get started in research that combines behavior with disease ecology, and provide a venue for students to make connections with experts whose work firmly integrates the two fields.