EEID 2010 – Conference on Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease

June 16th, 2010

Angela Douglas, Calum Russell, Emma Ridley and Adam Wong attended the EEID 2010 Conference (Ecology & Evolution of Infection and Disease), held at Cornell University on 2-5 June. They presented data from their NSF-funded research on the aphid symbiosis in two parts: 
an oral presentation by Angela, entitled:
     Compelled to cooperate: the traits of a bacterial infection without disease
and a poster presentation by Calum:
     How selective gene loss prevents cheating by the bacterial symbionts of aphids.

Adam Wong (SIPTI Graduate Fellow 2009) and Eric Van Fleet (SIPTI Graduate Fellow 2009-2010) then participated in a 4-day workshop (Evolution section), where they gained experience of various bioinformatics tools including R, population genetics programs (GeneClass and Structure) and phylogenetics programs (BEAST, MrBayes).