The Dynamics & Evolution of Emerging Pathogens: Insights from Californian Salt Marshes, House Finches, and Zika Virus
Featuring Prof. Andrew P. Dobson, PhD, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Prof. Dobson will provide quantitative estimates of levels of pathogen diversity in natural communities, illustrating the relative insignificance of ‘discovering’ new viruses, and will describe the factors that determine successful emergence and subsequent evolution in a well-studied avian pathogen.

Commentator: Jessica Hellmann, PhD Director, Institute on the Environment
Moderator: Susan M. Wolf, JD, Chair, Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences

A simultaneous webcast will be available; please register for in-person or remote attendance.

Spring Lecture Series
Emerging Diseases in a Changing Environment
These events are free and open to the public; box lunch is provided to those who pre-register.
Simultaneous webcasts will be available; please register for in-person or remote attendance.

Co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Consortium on Law & Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences; Center for Infectious Disease Research & Prevention (CIDRAP); Food Protection & Defense Institute; and Institute on the Environment (IonE).