BIOL.2460 Disease Ecology and Evolution
Id: 042523
Credits: 3-3
Description
Research on infectious diseases has increased tremendously in recent years, fueled by challenges to human health and ecosystem conservation as well as theoretical and technological advances. This class focuses on the ecological and evolutionary processes that drive the transmission of pathogens between hosts: the impact of disease on host populations: and how infectious diseases emerge. Topics covered will include: parasite functional and taxonomic diversity, transmission routes, and virulence as well as strategies of host defense, mathematical models of disease, the effects of parasitism on individuals, populations, and communities, co-evolution between hosts and parasites, emerging, and resurging diseases, and human impacts on disease emergence.
Prerequisites
C- or better in BIOL.1120 Principles of Biology II, or Permission of Instructor.
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