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8:00am

Welcome Address Assembly Hall C

8:15am

OPENING SESSION: Ecology Management of North American Cervids Assembly Hall C

9:30am

PLENARY SESSION I - Part 1: Ecology and Conservation of Ungulate Migration: Lessons from Wyoming; Part 2: Movement, Migration and Ecological Plasticity in Deer Species: Facts and Consequences in a Changing European... Assembly Hall CFrancesca Cagnacci • Jerod A. Merkle

11:00am

Movement Track: The Red Desert to Hoback Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) Migration: A Case Study in Common Interest as a Basis for Coexistence Assembly Hall C

11:20am

Movement Track: Stopover Use By a Migratory Ungulate During a Short Distance Migration Assembly Hall C

11:40am

Movement Track: Habitat Selection by Mule Deer Within Migration Corridors in Nevada Assembly Hall C

12:00pm

Movement Track: Quantifying the Drivers of Individual Variation in Mule Deer Migration Assembly Hall C

1:30pm

PLENARY SESSION II - The "First" Five Decades of Chronic Wasting Disease: Lessons Learned Assembly Hall CMike Miller

3:00pm

SYMPOSIA-02: Prions & Prion Diseases Assembly Hall C

3:20pm

SYMPOSIA-02: Chronic Wasting Disease Assembly Hall C

3:40pm

SYMPOSIA-02: Chronic Wasting Disease in the Republic of Korea Assembly Hall C

4:00pm

SYMPOSIA-02: Thirty Years of Chronic Wasting Disease in Wyoming Assembly Hall C

8:00am

PLENARY SESSION III - Soil, Land Use, and Genetic Potential – Connecting the Dots of Deer Ecology and Management Assembly Hall CSteve Demarais

9:00am

SYMPOSIA-03: Chronic Wasting Disease Management in Missouri: Successes, Roadblocks, and Lessons Learned Assembly Hall C

9:20am

SYMPOSIA-03: A Measured Response: The Challenges Associated with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Communications Assembly Hall C

9:40am

SYMPOSIA-03: Chronic Wasting Disease in West Virginia: A Brief Assessment of Disease Management and Monitoring, “Now and Down the Road” Assembly Hall C

10:00am

SYMPOSIA-03: Responding to a Chronic Wasting Disease Outbreak in Wild Deer in Minnesota – Opportunities and Challenges Assembly Hall C

11:00am

Disease 1 Track: Modeled Impacts of Chronic Wasting Disease on White-tailed Deer Populations in a Semi-arid Environment Assembly Hall C

11:20am

Disease 1 Track: Learning from Others: Modeling the Growth and Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in an Emergent Area Assembly Hall C

11:40am

Disease 1 Track: Analysis of Allelic Variation in Prion Protein Gene of Texas Mule Deer Assembly Hall C

12:00pm

Disease 1 Track: Hunter Proximity To Chronic Wasting Disease: A Perceived Risk In Arkansas Assembly Hall C

1:30pm

PLENARY SESSION IV - Deer antlers: Traditional Chinese Medicine and Recently Developing Pharmaceuticals Based on Antler’s Unique Biological Phenomena Assembly Hall CChunyi Li

3:00pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Benefits of a Bottom-Up Approach to Understanding Disease Dynamics and Management in Deer: Studying Behavior to Test Mechanistic Hypotheses Assembly Hall C

3:20pm

SYMPOSIA-05: What Can Genetic Relatedness Tell Us About Social Behavior, CWD Transmission, and Management Alternatives? Assembly Hall C

3:40pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Scaling Up Fine-Scale Deer Behavior to Pathogen Transmission Within and Across The Landscape Assembly Hall C

4:00pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Utilizing Animal Movement and Network Models to Understand Disease Transmission and Spread Assembly Hall C

4:20pm

SYMPOSIA-05: Incorporating Behavior and Social Associations into Modeling Transmission and Disease Spread Assembly Hall C

8:00am

PLENARY SESSION V - Integrating Fertility Preservation and Cryo-banking into the Conservation of Rare and Endangered Deer Species Assembly Hall CPierre Comizzoli

9:00am

Disease 2 Track: New World Screwworm Impacts on the Endangered Florida Key Deer Assembly Hall C

9:20am

Disease 2 Track: Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Affects Abundance and Distribution of Free-Ranging Deer Populations Assembly Hall C

9:40am

Disease 2 Track: Persistent Transmission Of Bovine Tuberculosis From White-tailed Deer To Cattle In Michigan, USA: Mitigation Strategies And Needs Assembly Hall C

10:00am

Disease 2 Track: A Headache From Our Past? Cranial Abscess Disease And A Legacy Of Translocating White-tailed Deer Assembly Hall C

11:00am

Conservation & Restoration Track: Habitat Selection By Columbian White-tailed Deer Along The Lower Columbia River Assembly Hall C

11:20am

Conservation & Restoration Track: Cryptic Genetic Population Subdivision and Conservation in Elk (Cervus elaphus) Translocated from Elk Island National Park (Alberta, Canada) to Tennessee and North Carolina, US... Assembly Hall C

11:40am

Conservation & Restoration Track: How Do They Weather the Storm: White-tailed Deer Movement and Habitat Selection During Hurricane Irma Assembly Hall C

1:30pm

PLENARY SESSION VI - Physiological Mechanisms in Ecological Models of Performance in Cervids Assembly Hall CNicholas Tyler

3:00pm

SYMPOSIA-07: Understanding and Managing Predation Influences on White-tailed Deer Populations Assembly Hall C

3:20pm

SYMPOSIA-07: White-tailed Deer Population Dynamics Following Recovery of a Large Carnivore Assembly Hall C

3:40pm

SYMPOSIA-07: Understanding the Complexities and Impact of Wolf Predation on a Declining Moose Population and Meeting the Management Challenges Assembly Hall C

4:00pm

(CANCELLED) SYMPOSIA-07: Direct and Indirect Effects of Predators on Elk Populations Assembly Hall C

8:30am

PLENARY SESSION VII - Impacts of Nutrition on Growth and Reproduction in Female Red Deer: Phenotypic Flexibility within a Photoperiod-mediated Seasonal Cycle Assembly Hall CGeoff Asher

10:00am

Predation Track: Tradeoffs Between Forage and Predation Risk in Central New Mexico Assembly Hall C

10:20am

Predation Track: Where to Forage When Afraid: Does Risk-Averse Behavior Compromise Use of the Foodscape? Assembly Hall C

10:40am

Predation Track: Intraspecific Temporal Resource Partitioning at White-tailed Deer Feeding Sites: Implications for Differential Predation Risk Assembly Hall C

11:00am

Predation Track: Effects of Calf Predation and Nutrition on Elk Vital Rates in New Mexico Assembly Hall C

11:20am

Predation Track: Chronology of Reproductive Investment Determines Predation Risk Aversion in a Felid-Ungulate System Assembly Hall C

11:40am

Closing Remarks Assembly Hall C