PLP6905 Gainesville: section 4H93 Off-campus: section 41D3
2 credit hours
Class meetings in 2018 Summer B: July 3-26 and August 7-9;
Tuesday and Thursday, Periods 4 and 5 (12:30-1:45, 2:00-3:15);
2564 Fifield Hall
NOTE: There are no class meetings July 31 and August 2 (during the International Congress of Plant Pathology). These meeting times will be made up at other times acceptable to all class participants.
General knowledge of agricultural, ecological, or epidemiological systems, at least two undergraduate or graduate courses applying quantitative concepts and tools (such as statistics or quantitative ecology courses)
Instructor: Dr. Karen A. Garrett (garrettlab.com)
Plant Pathology, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, Emerging Pathogens Institute
Office: 2411 Fifield Hall
Email: karengarrett@ufl.edu
Phone: 352-273-4632
Teaching Assistants:
Kelsey Andersen andersenk@ufl.edu
Yanru Xing yanruxing@ufl.edu
Course materials access: Canvas and Class Website
By appointment in advance, 3:30-4:30 Tuesday and Thursday, or additional times as needed
Plant disease epidemiology addresses how interactions among plants, pathogens, vectors, the abiotic environment, and human decision-making result in the occurrence and spread of plant disease. Epidemiology also represents the interface between plant pathology and other disciplines, such as meteorology and social sciences.
This course addresses classical approaches to epidemiology as well as frontiers that make use of new big data opportunities. The course provides an introduction to the R programming environment, data science applications in epidemiology and epidemiological analyses using R. The course includes a combination of lectures to provide background information, discussion of current literature, computational analysis workshops to illustrate concepts, and individual projects to allow participants to apply ideas to systems that particularly interest them.
In the individual projects, each participant will select a disease of particular interest, assemble a portfolio of epidemiological information related to that disease, write a short proposal including an experimental design to collect important new data related to the disease, and evaluate regional management strategies for the disease in an epidemiological synthesis.
The course emphasizes concepts and use of existing tools, while at the same time it will offer a basis for the development of new tools for participants interested in further steps.
Participants who have completed this course will be able to…
If you are remote, please email answers to karengarrett@ufl.edu, andersenk@ufl.ed, yanruxing@ufl.edu with the Subject: Your Last Name, Quiz 1