| 8:00 – 8:30 am |
Registration
Main Lobby, Kelvin Smith Library
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| 8:00 – 9:00 am |
Continental Breakfast
Flora Stone Mather Reading Room, 2nd Floor
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| 9:00 – 9:15 am |
Opening Remarks
Welcome: Joanne Eustis, University Librarian, Case Western Reserve University
Opening Remarks: Lynn Singer, Deputy Provost & Vice President for Academic Programs, Case Western Reserve University
O’Neill Reading Room, 2nd Floor
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| 9:15 – 10:15 am |
Keynote Address
Cyberinfrastructure, New Research Opportunities, and the Reuse of Data
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
O’Neill Reading Room
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| 10:20 – 11:05 am |
Plenary Session #1
Microscope to Macroscope – Using GIS to Understand Environmental Complexity in Disease Causation
Charles H. King, MD, Center for Global Health & Diseases, and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University
O’Neill Reading Room
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| 11:05 – 11:15 am |
Break
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| 11:15 – 12:00 pm |
Plenary Session #2
West Nile Virus in Chicago: Considering the Past, Understanding the Present, Predicting the Future
Uriel Kitron, Environmental Studies, Emory University
O’Neill Reading Room
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| 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
Lunch / Demonstrations / Poster Sessions
Flora Stone Mather & O’Neill Reading Rooms
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| 1:15 – 2:00 pm |
Project Seminar #1 – Choose between 2 speakers
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Minerals, Forest and Health - Does Resource Extraction undermine Human Development?
Shubhayu Saha, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University
Room TBA
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The Diffusion of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut
Peter Tuckel, Department of Sociology, Hunter College, the City University of New York
Room TBA
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| 2:10 – 2:55 pm |
Project Seminar #2 – Choose between 2 speakers
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Using GIS to Understand the Ecology, Dispersal, and Evolutionary History of Diseases: Examples using Anthrax, Plague, and Tularemia
Dave Wagner,Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University
Room TBA
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Reducing Uncertainties in Health Risk Assessment through GIS and Spatial Analysis
Nina Lam, Department of Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University
Room TBA
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| 2:55 – 3:10 pm |
Break
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| 3:10 – 3:55 pm |
Project Seminar #3 – Choose between 2 speakers
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Using GIS to Reveal Spatial Patterns in the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic of New Orleans
Andrew Curtis, GIS Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Southern California
Room TBA
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Genomic and Geographic Analysis of the Evolution and Spread of Infectious Disease
Daniel Janies, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University
Room TBA
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| 4:00 – 5:00 pm |
Closing Panel Discussion
[Topic to cover data curation and preservation]
O’Neill Reading Room
- Joe Koonce, Moderator, Chair, Biology Department, Case Western Reserve University
- Andrew Curtis, GIS Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Southern California
- Daniel Janies, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University
- Charles King, Center for Global Health & Diseases, and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University
- Uriel Kitron, Environmental Studies, Emory University
- Nina Lam, Department of Environmental Studies, Louisiana State University
- David Wagner, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University
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