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Author:

Gruver, Adrienne Brook

Title:

Epidemiological Exploratory Data Analysis Tasks in a Geovisualization Environment

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

exploratory spatial data analysis
epidemiology
geovisualization
tasks

File:

Download Gruver_MSthesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Cynthia Ann Brewer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Houser, Beth Ann

Title:

Toxigenic Clostridium difficile in the Bovine Calf Gut: Association with Enteric Disease in Calves and Significance to Public Health

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

Clostridium difficile
epidemiology
public health
calf enteritis

File:

Download Houser_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhushan M Jayarao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhushan M Jayarao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Committee Member
Gary H Perdew, Committee Member
Arthur Hattel, Committee Member
Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Committee Member
David R Wolfgang, Committee Member
Jeanne Ann Lumadue, Committee Member

Author:

Conley, Jamison Fisher

Title:

Automated Hypothesis Generation of Processes Causing Clusters in Geographic Datasets

Graduate Program:

Geography

Keywords:

hypothesis generation
cluster analysis
epidemiology
image moment invariants

File:

Download CONLEY_DISS.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark Gahegan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger Michael Downs, Committee Member
Cynthia Ann Brewer, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member

Author:

Willyerd, Katelyn Tilley

Title:

FUSARIUM HEAD BLIGHT DISEASE DEVELOPMENT AND MYCOTOXIN ACCUMULATION IN WHEAT

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

electron capture detection
masked mycotoxin
gas chromatography
deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside
ergosterol
vomitoxin
DON
deoxynivalenol
Fusarium damaged kernels
disease severity
infection-timing
Fusarium graminearum
plant pathology
epidemiology
mycotoxicology

File:

Download KTW_Thesis_7.15.pdf

Committee Members:

Gretchen Anna Kuldau, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gretchen Anna Kuldau, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas D Archibald, Committee Member
Erick D De Wolf, Committee Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Committee Member
Gary William Moorman, Committee Member
Henry K Ngugi, Committee Member

Author:

Ferrari, Matthew J

Title:

Mixing Models and the Geometry of Epidemics

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

epidemiology
basic reproductive ratio
plant pathogen
vector-borne disease
networks
vaccination

File:

Download Ferrari_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member
Peter John Hudson, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member

Author:

Soehnlen, Marty Katherine

Title:

"Molecular Characterization and Epidemiology of Mycoplasma bovis"

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

vaccination
epidemiology
cattle
Mycoplasma bovis
veterinary medicine
antimicrobial

File:

Download Mycoplasma_Dissertation_2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Bhushan M Jayarao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bhushan M Jayarao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Committee Member
Arthur Hattel, Committee Member
Eugene Joseph Lengerich, Committee Member
Jeanne Ann Lumadue, Committee Member
David R Wolfgang, Committee Member

Author:

Bharti, Nita

Title:

Spatial heterogeneities in epidemic connectivity in real landscapes

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

infectious disease
metapopulation
epidemiology
measles
Niger

File:

Download bharti.dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Grenfell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bryan T Grenfell, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter John Hudson, Committee Member
Alan Maceachren, Committee Member

Author:

Capasso, Sarah Jane

Title:

STUDIES ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT OF BACTERIAL SPOT OF PEACH AND NECTARINE IN PENNSYLVANIA

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni
survival analysis
disease assessment
bacterial spot
rating scale
peach
epidemiology
agreement study

File:

Download Bardsley_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry K Ngugi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry K Ngugi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stack, Joseph Conrad

Title:

Assessing the phylodynamics of RNA viruses which cause acute disease

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

evolution
disease
infection
epidemiology
phylodynamics
coalescent

File:

Download jcs_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edward C Holmes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Beth Shapiro, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Joseph Ferrari, Committee Member
David Russell Hunter, Committee Member

Author:

Parker, Daniel M

Title:

Border demography and border malaria among Karen populations along the Thailand-Myanmar border

Graduate Program:

Anthropology

Keywords:

Thailand
Myanmar
demography
epidemiology
spatio-temporal
malaria
migration

File:

Download Dissertation_Parker_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

James William Wood, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Monrad Weiss, Committee Member
Liwang Cui, Committee Member
Stephen Matthews, Committee Member
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member