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Daniel Becker

University of Oklahoma
"Immunological diversity as a missing link in zoonotic risk prediction"

Cherie Briggs

UC Santa Barbara
"Beyond the Outbreak: How Climate and Context Shape the Long-Term Persistence of an Amphibian Fungal Pathogen"

Scott Carver

University of Georgia
"Advancing infectious disease management in free-ranging wildlife"

Michael Cortez

Florida State University
"Partitioning the effects of disease and non-disease processes on disease dynamics in multi-host communities"

Vanessa Ezenwa

Yale University
"Parasite interactions: coinfection, context, and complexity"

Megan Greischar

Cornell University
"Unraveling the constraints on evolution towards ever greater host exploitation"

Mallory Harris

University of Maryland
"Modelling Behavior-Disease Feedback with Social Division"

Elizabeth McGraw

Penn State University
"When years of basic research in EEID inform field interventions for disease control: stories from the current moment"

Jessica Metcalf

Princeton University
"The demographic thicket of immunity's tangled banks"

Joe Mihaljevic

Northern Arizona University
"Not All Hosts Are Equal: Thermal Gradients, Stochasticity, and Heterogeneous Infection Outcomes"

Rachel Penczykowski

Washington University, St. Louis
"Responses of wild plant–pathogen systems to environmental change"

Kim Pepin

USDA National Wildlife Research Center
"Emergency management of infectious disease involving wildlife"

Alex Strauss

University of Georgia
"Updates to the Healthy Herds Hypothesis and Impacts of Predators on Disease: Thermal Sensitivities and Paratenic Potential"

Daniel Streicker

University of Glasgow
"Interrupting pathogen transmission in natural populations"