John P. Wyatt, M.D. Traveling Fellowship

 

GiselaGarcía Ramos, Department of Biology, will host the 2012 John P. Wyatt Lecture on Environmental Health and Disease entitled “Global Climate Change and The Emergence of Infectious Diseases”. This Symposium will present and discuss selected topics including Emerging Pathogens: the Ecology and Evolution in the Invasion of New Species, Invasive Mosquitoes and Human Health, and Biogeography and Infectious Disease Ecology and Climate Change. The Symposium will also address students and faculty participants, with a program of activities consisting of distinguished lectures and a panel discussion of open access for the general public. Below is the program.

John P. Wyatt Lecture on Environmental Health and Disease

Global Climate Change and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases

Office of the Vice President for Research

Wednesday December 12, 2012, 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM

William T. Young Library Auditorium

This Symposium on “Global Climate Change and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases” will present and discuss selected topics including Emerging Pathogens: the Ecology and Evolution in the Invasion of New Species, Invasive Mosquitoes and Human Health, and Biogeography and Infectious Disease Ecology and Climate Change. The Symposium addresses students and faculty participants, with a program of activities consisting of distinguished lectures and a panel discussion of open access for the general public.

PROGRAM

LECTURES
Climate change, ecology, and disease emergence: A public health perspective

Dr. Ben Beard
Associate Director for Climate Change
National Center for Emerging andZoonotic Infectious Diseases
Chief, Bacterial Diseases Branch
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/media/subtopic/sme/beard.html

More than climate: Ecological change and its potential effects on vector-borne disease

Dr. Steven Juliano
Distinguished Professor of Ecology
School of Biological Sciences
Illinois State University
http://bio.illinoisstate.edu/sajulian/

TBA

Dr. Christopher Mores
School of Veterinary Medicine
Department ofPathobiological Sciences
Louisiana State University
http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/pbs/mores.htm

PANEL DISCUSSION PARTICIPANTS

Dr. John Cox (UK Forestry) · Dr. Grayson Brown (UK Entomology) · Dr. Stephen Dobson (UK Entomology) · Dr. Christopher Mores (Louisiana State U.) · Dr. StevenJuliano (Illinois State U.) · Dr. Brian Stevenson (UK Microbiology) · Moderator: Dr. DaveWestneat (UK Biology)

Reception
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Organization Committee:
Phillip H. Crowley, DaveWestneat and GiselaGarcía Ramos
Contact (GGR): ggarc0@uky.edu; Phone: 257-5306
Department of Biology, University of Kentucky

This fellowship honors Dr. John P. Wyatt, M.D., who was director of the University of Kentucky Tobacco and Health Research Institute from 1974 until January 1980.  Dr. Wyatt was a pathologist who received his M.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1938 and completed his medical training on a fellowship at Harvard Medical School.  Before coming to UK in 1974, he was professor and head of the departments of pathology at St. Louis University where he was involved in black lung research and at the University of Manitoba.  Dr. Wyatt was a pulmonary diseases researcher who published over 100 articles covering viruses and diverse lung injuries. The John P. Wyatt, M.D. Traveling Fellowship is awarded biennially.

Proposals for next competition will be due November 15, 2013.

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