Environmental DNA for wildlife epidemiology and outbreak investigation
please arrive five minutes before the seminar to allow entry to the building
The wildlife component of the human/wildlife interfaces where zoonotic pathogens emerge is usually very poorly characterized. This is true both for the wildlife communities themselves and for their parasites. Ecological and veterinary investigations are absolutely required but the infrastructure and manpower needed prevent their broad deployment. Fecal sample analyses are now frequently used to magnify our ability to monitor wildlife and their pathogens. In this presentation, I will show how we can extend our toolkit by using other sources of environmental DNA, with a strong focus on invertebrate-derived DNA.
Date:
24 October 2018, 12:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2018)
Venue:
Medawar Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3SY
Venue Details:
Level 30 Seminar Room
Speaker:
Dr Sebastien Calvignac (Robert Koch Institute, Berlin)
Organising department:
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Organisers:
Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford),
Prof Lynn Dustin (NDORMS)
Organiser contact email address:
thomas.johnson@zoo.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Marina Escalera Zamudio (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Peter Medawar Building Seminars
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
FREE
Audience:
Members of the scientific community
Editors:
Andrea Kastner,
Thomas Johnson
