RCN Steering Committee
US Principal Investigator: Leah Johnson is a quantitative biologist. Her research focuses on understanding how differences between individuals in a population result from external heterogeneity and stochasticity, and how this variability influences population level patterns. She uses theoretical models to understand how systems behave generally, while simultaneously seeking to confront and validate models with data and make predictions. Applications include infectious disease epidemiology and behavioral and population ecology.
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UK Principal Investigator: Lauren Cator is a behavioral ecologist who is particularly interested in the behavior of disease transmitting mosquitoes for two reasons: we know very little about them and the behavior of these animals has an enormous impact on human health. In the past she has worked on several aspects of mosquito behavioral ecology both in the laboratory and in the field. She is excited to learn more about theoretical tools and how they can assist us in understanding how vector behavior, life history, and how these contribute to disease transmission dynamics.
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Samraat Pawar is Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, based at the Silwood Park Campus. His work integrates mathematical and computational modelling with the rapidly emerging field of ecoinformatics (management and analysis of massive ecological data) to study how metabolic demands and constraints on individual organisms drive ecological and evolutionary dynamics of biological systems ranging from populations to complex communities.
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Erin Mordecai is an assistant professor in Biology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the ecology of infectious disease: how climate, species interactions, and global change drive infectious disease dynamics in humans and natural ecosystems. This research combines mathematical modeling and empirical work. She got her PhD in 2012 at the University of California Santa Barbara, had an NSF postdoctoral research fellowship in mathematical biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. She has been at Stanford since January 2015.
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Peter Hudson is an ecologist and a biologist at Penn State University. His work focuses on the ecology of wildlife diseases, including zoonoses. He uses a mixture of fieldwork, laboratory studies, and mathematical modeling to explore disease dynamics in three main study areas, namely, Epidemiology and Population Dynamics, Heterogeneities and Parasite Interactions.
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Advisory Board
Matthew Thomas
Professor and Huck Scholar in Ecological Entomology
Penn State University
mbt13@psu.edu
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Alison G. Power
Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cornell University
agp4@cornell.edu
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Michael Johansson
Biologist at CDC Dengue Branch
Visiting Scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
mjohansson@cdc.gov
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Shannon LaDeau
Disease Ecologist
Cary Institute
ladeaus@caryinstitute.org
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Mike Boots
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
mboots@berkeley.edu
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Graduate Student Staff
Fadoua El Moustaid
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
fadoua@vt.edu
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Zach Gajewski
Graduate Student
Virginia Tech
gzach93@vt.edu