{"id":6175,"date":"2016-02-04T18:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2016-02-04T18:16:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T18:16:05","slug":"today-of-mice-and-men-emerging-infectious-disease-in-a-warmer-more-fragmented-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2016\/02\/04\/today-of-mice-and-men-emerging-infectious-disease-in-a-warmer-more-fragmented-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Of Mice and Men &#8211; Emerging Infectious Disease in a Warmer, More Fragmented World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u00a0February 4\u00a0at 4:00pm in UConn\u2019s Konover Auditorium,\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lib.uconn.edu\/libraries\/asc\/about\/events\/teale-lecture-series\/\">Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment<\/a>\u00a0presents<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>disease ecologist\u00a0<strong>Dr. Richard S. Ostfeld<\/strong> of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies for his lecture\u00a0 <em>\u201cOf Mice and Men: Emerging Infectious Disease in a Warmer, More Fragmented World.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2016\/02\/ostfeld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6177\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2016\/02\/ostfeld-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"ostfeld\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2016\/02\/ostfeld-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2016\/02\/ostfeld.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>We are living in an age of emerging infectious diseases, scientists and health officials agree.\u00a0 Most of these diseases are transmitted from wildlife to humans, but scientists are only beginning to understand the ecological causes of disease emergence in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century.\u00a0 In this talk, Ostfeld will describe the ecology of three emerging tick-borne diseases in the northeastern United States, most prominently Lyme disease.\u00a0 He will show how small mammals, such as white-footed mice, are instrumental in fostering both blacklegged ticks and the pathogens they transmit.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 years of ecological research in Ostfeld\u2019s lab reveal how anthropogenic environmental changes, such as reduced biodiversity and global warming, affect our risk of exposure to infectious diseases both locally and globally.\u00a0 The presentation will demonstrate the importance of ecology as a health science.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by UConn\u2019s Junior Faculty Forum of the Humanities Institute, the Dodd Research Center, and several UConn departments, the event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1995, UConn\u00a0presents the award-winning Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series that brings distinguished speakers to the University to speak in public lectures on various aspects of nature and the environment. \u00a0The Lecture Series is named in honor of the Pulitzer-prize winning naturalist and author, Edwin Way Teale, whose<a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/asc\/findaids\/Teale\/MSS19810009.html\"> vast archive of literary manuscripts, letters, diaries and photographs<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0preserved and accessible at UConn\u2019s\u00a0Archives and Special Collections.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u00a0February 4\u00a0at 4:00pm in UConn\u2019s Konover Auditorium,\u00a0the\u00a0Edwin Way Teale Lecture Series on Nature and the Environment\u00a0presents\u00a0disease ecologist\u00a0Dr. Richard S. 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