![]() ![]() With the field gaining prominence, the colleges have pledged funds for continued research and the group has just revamped its website. ![]() “We’re a little under the radar but it’s a group that has been working together for a long time,” said Brian Lazzaro, a professor of entomology whose work addresses the genomics of immune responses under different environmental conditions. Over the last 15 years Cornell faculty in the field have operated as a working group, with graduate students who meet for a weekly journal club to read and discuss papers from primary journals. ![]() They trade insights across disciplines while chipping away at questions on diseases affecting humans, plants and domestic and wild animals, as well as on disease evolution and transmission. In recent years, Cornell has amassed an impressive stable of experts in an emerging field for modern times: the ecology and evolution of infectious disease.Ĭornell infectious disease researchers span the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Arts and Sciences, and Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. A salamander with skin lesions caused by Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, a pathogenic fungus that infects salamanders and newts and has recently spread from Southeast Asia into Europe. ![]()
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