SAVE THE DATE! EEID 2011: The 9th Annual Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) Conference and Workshop will be held on the beautiful University of California, Santa Barbara campus. Conference: June 19-20, 2011 Hike/Field Trip: June 21, 2011 Workshop: June 22-25, 2011 This year's theme will be: Networks and Complexity (with more information coming soon!).
Housing will be available on campus in the Manzanita Village Residence Halls, located immediately adjacent to the Pacific Ocean (nightly rate: $107.23/person single occupancy, or $85.31/person double occupancy; this rate includes most meals). Conference registration fee will be approximately $120/person. Conference registration will be by May 15, 2011 Disease modeling workshops (June 22-25) cover both ecology and evolutionary biology. Topics and schedules will will be similar to those in previous years (see http://www.eeidconference.org/Workshops/workshops.html) . For graduate students and post-docs who are US citizens or resident aliens, scholarships funded by the National Science Foundation are available that cover the $500 workshop fee and up to $500 in travel support. Applications for the workshops will be due by March 15, 2011, with notification of acceptance by April 15. The Santa Barbara International Airport (SBA) is approximately 1 mile from the UCSB campus. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is 108 miles from UCSB, and shuttle service is available by Santa Barbara Airbus (http://www.sbairbus.com/). Local hosts are Cherie Briggs and Kevin Lafferty
