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                                            SYMPOSIUM

PARASITES AND PATHOGENS: THE EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF SMALL POPULATIONS

A Symposium sponsored by the Biology of Small Populations Research
Training Program at the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian
Institute

Saturday 4 April 1998, Plant Science Building, University of Maryland
Sunday, 5 April 1998,  National Wildlife Visitor Center, Patuxent
Research
                       Refuge, Laurel, MD


SATURDAY 4 April 1998
1140 Plant Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park

 8:30 Coffee and Bagels
 9:00 Welcome and Introduction,
      Gerald Wilkinson and Kathryn Hanley
    9:15 Nancy Moran, University of Arizona
      "Concequences of Population Size in Endosymbiotic Bacteria"
10:15 Andrew Read, University of Edinburgh
                        "Sociobiology of Malaria Parasites"
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Rob Fleischer, Smithsonian Institution
      "Trouble in Paradise:  Genetic Variation, Introduced Disease, and
      Extinction in the Hawaiian Avifauna"

12:45 Lunch Break

2:00 Curt Lively, Indiana University
     "Selection by Parasites for Clonal Diversity and Sex"
3:00 Lori Stevens, University of Vermont
                    "Parasite Effects on Insect Host Behavior, Reproduction, and

     Competition"
4:00 Coffee Break
4:30 Janis Antonovics, Duke University
      "The dynamics of sexually transmitted diseases in small
populations;
      theoretical expectations and empirical evidence from the
      Silene-Ustilago system"
5:30 - 7:30 Poster session - Student Research Summaries
         First Floor Foyer, Plant Sciences



SUNDAY, 5 April 1998
National Wildlife Visitor Center, Patuxent Research Refuge, Laurel, MD

9:00 Coffee and Bagels

9:30 - 12:30 Short talks from invited speakers with roundtable
discussion
on current problems in parasite/pathogen evolution and ecology