Conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases 2015; Athens, Georgia, May 26-29, 2015

该奖项将支持参加将于5月26日至29日在美国佐治亚州雅典举行的第13届传染病生态学和进化年会。今年怎么样？该会议的重点是预测和控制与人类健康、食品供应安全和生物多样性保护直接相关的传染病爆发。会议的五大主题是：（1）被忽视的热带病的动态，（2）传染病生态学与社会科学（经济学，政策，人类行为）之间的接口，（3）宿主内动态和进化，（4）传染病的宏观生态学，（5）埃博拉病毒的动态和控制。由于生态、人为或进化的变化，传染病的流行、宿主范围和地理分布发生了变化，这是对人类健康和自然生态系统的持续挑战。科学家们将广泛的注意力集中在推动传染病在人群中传播的过程上，但在其他组织规模上运作的关键过程，从宿主内的分子和细胞相互作用到生态系统内的生物多样性，也决定了传染病的结果和分布。本次会议探讨了传染病传播和出现的小规模和大规模机制，并考虑这些因素如何指向威胁人类健康，农业和自然生态系统的病原体的控制策略。会议特别鼓励学生参与，将学生注册费降至最低，从而使研究生和本科生能够参与，与该领域的领先科学家会面，并相互建立网络。至少有70名学生将以海报展示或口头演讲的形式展示他们的作品，从而将他们的研究计划和研究结果传达给相关受众，并将获得对他们工作的重要反馈。会议将举办一个关于疾病生态学职业的特别午餐会，特别旨在让学生和博士后学者有机会与学术科学以外领域的研究人员和专业人士会面并提出问题，包括政府机构和科学写作和交流。

This award will support participation in the 13th annual conference on the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, to be held May 26-29 in Athens, GA, USA. This year?s conference focuses on predicting and controlling infectious disease outbreaks that are directly relevant to human health, the safety of our food supply, and to the conservation of biological diversity. The five major themes of the conference are: (1) the dynamics of neglected tropical diseases, (2) the interface between infectious disease ecology and the social sciences (economics, policy, human behavior), (3) within-host dynamics and evolution, (4) the macroecology of infectious diseases, and (5) the dynamics and control of Ebola virus. Shifts in the prevalence, host range and geographic distribution of infectious diseases, as a result of ecological, anthropogenic or evolutionary change, are an ongoing challenge for human health and natural ecosystems. Scientists have focused extensive attention on the processes driving infectious disease spread within populations, yet crucial processes operating at other scales of organization, ranging from molecular and cellular interactions within hosts to biological diversity within ecosystems also determine infectious disease outcomes and distributions. This conference explores both small- and large-scale mechanisms that underlie infectious disease spread and emergence, and considers how these factors can point towards control strategies for pathogens that threaten human health, agriculture, and natural ecosystems. The conference especially encourages student participation by keeping student registration fees to a minimum, thus allowing graduate students and undergraduates to participate, meet leading scientists in the field,and network with each other. A minimum of 70 students will present their work in the form of a poster presentation or oral talk, thus communicating their research plans and findings to a relevant audience, and will obtain crucial feedback on their work. The conference will feature a special lunch session on careers in disease ecology, especially designed to allow students and post-doctoral scholars the opportunity to meet and ask questions of researchers and professionals in fields beyond academic science, including government agencies and science writing and communication.