Syllabi – Disease Ecology Section (original) (raw)
ESA Disease Ecology members have generously donated a variety of educational resources. Here, you can find a comprehensive list of shared disease ecology syllabi, lecture activities, seminars, and laboratory exercises. Our list is ever growing; if you would like to donate new materials, please reach out to the current section Chair or Vice-Chair.
SYLLABI
| Course | Description | Contact | Syllabus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biology of Infectious Disease | Large intermediate level lecture course for biology majors and non-majors. (Intro orAP Biology prerequisite) | Antonovics, Janis [email protected] | Antonovics Biology of Infectious Disease Course outline and syllabus Spring 2014 |
| Intro to Field Biology: Disease Ecology | Small 200-level undergraduate lab course, mixing reading and discussion with field exercises. (Intro or AP Biology prerequisite) | Hood, Michael [email protected] | Hood_Intro to Field Biology |
| Evolutionary Medicine | Upper-level lecture course for biology and anthropology majors | Eisenberg, Dan [email protected] | Eisenberg Spring 2018_EvolutionaryMedicineSyllabus |
| Disease Ecology | Upper-level lecture and discussion course for biology majors and graduate students | Kilpatrick, Marm [email protected] | Kilpatrick Disease Ecology Syllabus 2018 |
| Disease Ecology | Upper-level lecture, discussion, and computer lab course for biology majors | Civitello, David [email protected] | Biol 347 Disease Ecology Syllabus – SP19 |
| Evolutionary Medicine | Upper-level lecture course for non-majors (link to online lectures) | Stearns, Stephen [email protected] | Stearns Evolutionary Medicine Course Syllabus |
| Disease Biology | Upper-level undergraduate biology majors and graduate students | Martin, Lynn (Marty) [email protected] | Martin Disease Biology 2017 syllabus |
| Evolutionary Medicine | Upper-level lecture and discussion course for biology majors | Mideo, Nicole [email protected] | Mideo_EEB325_2019_Syllabus |
| Disease Ecology | Lab course for first-year biology majors | Searle, Catherine [email protected] | Searle_Year1BioLab_DiseaseEcology_Syllabus_2019 |
| Peoples & Plagues | Upper-level lecture course | Ryan, Sadie [email protected] | Ryan_Peoples&Plagues Ryan_GEOG 3930 |
| Disease Ecology & Evolution | Upper-level lecture course for biology majors | Mitchell, Charles [email protected] | Mitchell_Syllabus Biol 568 Fall 2018 (Nov11) |
| Disease Ecology & Evolution | Upper-level lecture and discussion course for biology majors | Woodhams, Doug [email protected] | Woodhams_Disease Ecology and Evolution syllabus2018_3 Woodhams_Schedule and Assignments_revised_11_5_2018 |
| Parasite Ecology | Upper-level lecture and lab course for biology majors | Wood, Chelsea [email protected] | Wood_Parasite Ecology – Syllabus – AUTUMN 2018 – FINAL |
| Evolutionary Medicine | Upper-level lecture and discussion course for biology majors | Martin, Lynn (Marty) [email protected] | Martin Evolutionary Medicine, syllabus Fall 2017 |
| Evolutionary Medicine | Upper-level lecture and discussion course for biology majors | Antolin, Michael [email protected] | Antolin_Evolutionary Medicine – Colorado State Univeirsty BZ 420 Syllabus 2019 |
| Evolutionary Medicine | Upper-level lecture and discussion course for biology majors | Cressler, Clay [email protected] | Syllabus Evolutionary Medicine 2019 |
| Methods in Vector-Borne Disease Ecology | Upper-level lecture and lab course for biology majors | Hamer, Gabe [email protected] | Hamer_ENTO_VIBS 426 626 syllabus 1.29.19 |
| Emerging Infectious Diseases | Upper-level case-study based course for biology/anthropology majors | Holland Jones, James [email protected] | EEID_Syllabus_Winter2018-rev2 |
| Disease Ecology | Upper-level lecture and discussion course for biology majors | Searle, Catherine [email protected] | Searle_Disease Ecology 2018 syllabus |
LECTURE ACTIVITIES
| Activity | Description | Contact | Link or File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diseases I’ve had andheard of | Simple exercise for first lecture in an introductory course for biology majors or non-majors | Antonovics, Janis [email protected] | Ask students to list on two halves of one page |
| Lecture on mapping disease | John Snow, Broad Street Pump, disease incidence, appropriate mapping scale. | Dan Salkeld | mapping disease |
| Pre-lecture music and poetry | As a lecture warm up, often good to present something fun. Here are a few examples of poems and music (lyrics only).There is lots more out there.and music can be downloaded | Pre-lecture music and poetry | Pre-lecture Music Poems for Disease Biology |
SEMINARS AND DISCUSSION SECTIONS
| Activity | Description | Contact | Link or file |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diseases are like the stars | Simple data exercise illustrating that knowledge on parasite diversity is affected strongly by search effort. | Michael Hood[email protected] | DISEASES_ARE_LIKE_THE_STARS-1-2017 teachingeeid |
| Epidemiology project | Using class photos to investigate contact rates and disease spread, with an SIR model option | Janis Antonovics[email protected] | Epidemiology_Assignment Disease Biology |
| Disease poster project | Individual projects where students produce a poster or wiki page (instead of a term paper) on a particular disease | Janis Antonovics[email protected] | Disease_Poster_Assignment to post |
COMPUTATIONAL LABS
| Activity | Description | Contact | Link or File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Queen game | Students use playing cards to collaboratively act out host-parasite coevolution and test predictions of the Red Queen Hypothesis. Resources can be found at my website. | Mandy Gibson[email protected] | GibsonDrownLively_2015_RedQueenGame |
| DSAIDE R package | R package of different compartmental models to explore various infectious disease topics. Code is wrapped around a GUI so no coding required. | Andreas Handel[email protected] | package github PLOS Paper |
| Disease transmission in networks | Computer lab requiring students to: Build a network based on shared courses, clubs, and dorms of students in this lab section. Simulate transmission of a directly-transmitted parasite on a static network. Determine how network position influences the importance of a host to parasite spread. | Civitello, David[email protected] | Lab 3 – Transmission in networks |
| Disease control | Computer lab requiring students to use simple epidemiological models to determine the vaccination or culling level needed to eliminate a density-dependently transmitted parasite | Civitello, David[email protected] | Lab 7 – Disease control |
| Herd immunity | Simulation activity that simulates measles outbreaks in communities with different levels of vaccination | Shocket, Marta[email protected] | Random Process Simulation Activity |
EMPIRICAL LABS
| Activity | Description | Contact | Link or File |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quantifying Infection Rates in Natural Populations | (Draft Module) Uses the Drosophila-Howardula System to collect wild mycophagous flies and quantify infection rates by parasitic nematodes. Uses a introductory lab in undergraduate course. Takes two 3-hour labs. | Michael Hood (Amherst College) [email protected] | Quantifying Infection Rates in Natural Populations (Drosophila-Howardula System)_Hood_Amherst College |
| Testing assumptions of transmission functions | Uses HexBugs to generate data on the transmission of “RoboPox” and gets students to use simple statistics to investigate whether assumptions of density-dependent transmission hold | Civitello, David[email protected] | Lab 5 – Transmission dynamics of Robo Pox |