EEID forum

Up next on the EEIDforum is Ayesha Mahmud at UC Berkeley (Mar 5th at 1pm US eastern time) presenting:

Infectious diseases in an era of global climatic and demographic change

You can register here for the seminar link:
www.eeidforum.org?page_id=261

Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Conference (EEID)

Abstracts due Feb 3rd for EEID 2026! @eeid2026.bsky.social

Up next on the EEIDforum is Sarah Olson with the Wildlife Conservation Society (Feb 5th at 1pm US eastern time) presenting:

One Health in Action: Wildlife Conservation and Disease Prevention in a Changing World

You can register here:
www.eeidforum.org?page_id=261

EEID seminar Jan 8th 1PM EST

The role of climate change, dust-generating events, and rodents in the emergence of Valley fever in California

Jennifer Head, University of Michigan

Register here:
www.eeidforum.org?page_id=261

YouTube video by EEIDforum EEID FORUM - Kevin Lafferty - USGS Western Ecological Research Center - December 4th, 2025

If you missed it, Kevin Lafferty's seminar on When and where climate will impact disease is now posted. Kevin explores how parasites, food webs, biodiversity, and climate change interact. Using examples from schistosomiasis and malaria, he shows why simple predictions can be misleading

Kevin Lafferty (USGS) will be giving the EEIDforum seminar this Thursday (Dec 4th) at 1pm US Eastern Time. He will be discussing: When and where does global change alter disease risk?

You can register for the seminar here: www.eeidforum.org?page_id=261

Kevin Lafferty (USGS) is on-deck for the EEIDforum seminar on Dec 4th at 1pm US Eastern Time. He will be discussing: When and where does global change alter disease risk?

You can register for the seminar here: www.eeidforum.org?page_id=261

Looks like a great group of folks turned out for the NorthEast EEID meeting last week!

YouTube video by EEIDforum EEID FORUM - Lisa Couper - UC Berkeley - November 6th

Lisa Couper gave an amazing talk for the EEIDforum seminar on how mosquitoes may adapt to a warming climate—and what that means for future mosquito-borne disease risk. It's available here if you missed it: youtu.be/KuxI2WwB9p8

Late Notice: Penn State will be hosting a regional Eco. and Evo. of Inf. Disease meeting on Nov. 14-15th!

Save the Date for EEID 2026! June 2-4 in Blacksburg, VA

cpe.vt.edu/eeid2026.html

and you can follow them on BlueSky: @eeid2026.bsky.social

YouTube video by EEIDforum EEID FORUM- Erin Sauer - Rutgers - October 10, 2025

Last month Dr Erin Sauer presented a masterclass on amphibian-climate-disease interactions spanning from lab experiments, to fieldwork, to global meta-analyses. If you missed it, you can watch it here:

youtu.be/c7rcbN5r7Jw

Join us next Thursday, Nov. 6th for our 2nd EEID forum seminar. 1pm Eastern US Time.

Mosquitoes in a warming world: climate adaptation and its consequences for disease transmission

Lisa Couper
UC Berkeley

Links to the zoom details are available here:
www.eeidforum.org?page_id=21

To receive periodic updates and calendar invites to future seminars sign up here: www.eeidforum.org?page_id=281

WILDLIFE DISEASE ECOLOGY LAB ​Our  research focuses on wildlife disease ecology and ecoimmunology. We are especially interested in understanding how host behavior and physiology influence disease susceptibility and...

Erin Sauer (Rutgers University) kicks off on Oct 2nd with: Environmental and behavioral drivers of wildlife disease
www.sauerlab.com

Join us on the first Thursday of every month at 1 US Eastern time for our Fall seminar series. Speakers will be tackling issues at the intersection of climate and disease. Students are encouraged to stay on after the seminar for an extended Q&A with the speaker.

A collage of three bat-related scenes: researchers handle bats in the dark, bats hang and fly among forest branches, and a bat is examined on a table by a person in protective gear. Photo credits to Kathleen Flynn, Pat Jones, Remy Brooks.

Coronaviruses in bats are almost never harmful to humans.

New study led by Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social looks at co-infections in young bats - and how they might shape how viruses evolve in nature. go.sydney.edu.au/CneWYt

📷 Photo credits to Kathleen Flynn, Pat Jones, Remy Brooks.

Smith conservation fellowship, which often has some disease-related projects, is now open: www.smithfellows.org

We created an initial webpage at EEIDforum.org. We're in beta testing phase, but there is a job board with a few postings, feel free to put up your own EEID related job ads there.

ICYI here are the slides we presented earlier this morning of an AI analysis of information from the abstracts we received at #EEID2025. We hope it is useful for offering some big-picture perspective on what's going on in EEID research right now. Or at least a starting point for discussion!

Looks like a great venue!

Scientists are dropping live mosquitoes out of drones in Hawaii. Here’s why. The wild reason why bird advocates are releasing these reviled insects from the sky.

Hawaii’s iconic forest birds are vanishing and drones dropping lab-raised mosquitoes may be their last lifeline. It sounds absurd, but it’s a smart, targeted fix to an extinction crisis driven by climate and disease.

@benjij.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

For those people attending #EEID2025 let's have some details for those that can't make it. Who did a great job?

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!

PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!

Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Who is excited about #EEID2025? Huge shout out to the organizers and helpers. If you see one of them, give them a wink, nod, high five, tip of the hat to show your appreciation!