NEUROETHOLOGY OU PRESIDENTIAL DREAM COURSE LECTURE
Sponsored by the OU President's Office, CBN, & the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
John Hildebrand
Regents Professor and Professor of Neuroscience, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Entomology, and Molecular & Cellular Biology
Head, Department of Neuroscience, University of Arizona
National Academy of Sciences member
"THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS IN THE WORLD: ARTHROPOD VECTORS OF DISEASE"
7 PM, Thursday, September 9, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman, OK 73072
Diseases caused by pathogens (for example, viruses, bacteria, and parasites) that are transmitted to hosts by arthropod vectors (for example, blood-sucking insects and ticks) collectively are the most important infectious diseases of humans. For many of these diseases, the vector arthropods are essential for transmission of the pathogen to a human host, and some of them are diabolically effective in fulfilling that mission. This lecture will survey biological, medical, and societal aspects of selected vector-borne diseases, with particular attention to the vector arthropods that transmit the pathogens.
Hildebrand is Regents Professor and head of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Before joining Arizona in 1985, he taught at Harvard and Columbia Universities. His research focuses on insect nervous systems and behavior, and he is a frequent consultant to federal agencies, private foundations and companies. Hildebrand is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences. He also is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and a Fellow of the AAAS, Entomological Society of America and Royal Entomological Society.