September: Vicki's paper, published in Biology Letters, concerning the potential impacts of climate change on avian influenza transmission in Delaware Bay has generated much media interest. See UM news service…
April: Pej and Aaron receive 5 year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study pertussis (UM news service press release) . January: The lab welcomes Maria Riolo, who…
November: Many congratulations to Daniel Streicker, who defended his PhD dissertation on the 21st! He will now continue his work on vampire bat rabies in Peru as a postdoc on…
August: The lab welcomes Liz Levin, who has enrolled into the PhD program in Epidemiology, as part of the Interdisciplinary Program in Infectious Diseases. She will be working on the…
January: We welcome Eli Goldwyn to the lab. Eli will be working on pertussis outbreaks in the US.
November: There was considerable interest in the paper by Rohani et al. on pertussis epidemiology. See for example: Science Daily – Contact among age groups key to understanding whooping cough spread and control MedPage…
August: Congratulations to Daniel for his recent publication: DG Streicker, AS Turmelle, MJ Vonhof, IV Kuzmin, GF McCracken, and CE Rupprecht (2010) Host Phylogeny Constrains Cross-Species Emergence and Establishment of…
September: The Rohani lab welcomes Xue Zhong and Sourya Shrestha as postdoctoral research fellows. Xue will be working on models of pertussis transmission and Sourya will be developing statistical inference…
June: Pej has accepted a position at the University of Michigan. His appointment will be in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Center for the Study of…
October 30: We're sad to say goodbye to Romulus Breban, who is leaving the US to take up a prestigious position at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.