The Cayuga Bird Club will be meeting on Monday, February 9, at 7:30pm at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, with cookies and conversation at 7:15. Our speaker, Dr. Andre Dhondt, Morgens Professor of Ornithology at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, will be presenting - "Factors driving rapid changes in virulence of the bacterial pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum in house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)". Interactions between emerging pathogens and their hosts can cause changes in both host and pathogen. A novel strain of the bacterium Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), a widespread, economically important poultry pathogen, emerged in 1994 in eastern N. America, primarily in introduced wild house finches. MG causes severe conjunctivitis and reduced survival in the wild. In 2002 MG spread to the western (native) range of the house finch. MG virulence, as measured by severity and duration of eye lesions, is rapidly increasing both in eastern and western house finches. Dr. Dhondt will report on experiments that test the hypothesis that an increase in virulence is the result of competition between MG strains in a system in which hosts can recover from infections, but maintain imperfect immunity after recovery (the immune escape hypothesis). Members are invited to dinner with Andre and his wife Keila before the meeting at 5:30 pm at Taste of Thai Express. Please RSVP by noon Monday to [email protected] so reservations can be made.
Hope to see you Monday! Colleen Richards Correspondence Secretary Cayuga Bird Club ____________________________________________________________ How Old Men Tighten Skin 63 Year Old Man Shares DIY Skin Tightening Method You Can Do From Home http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/54d4e9ef6e92a69ef4b28st04duc -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
