Pertussis Book!
June 20, 2018
A volume titled Pertussis: Epidemiology, Immunology & Evolution to be published by Oxford University Press. Co-edited with Sam Scarpino.
Lab News
Welcome Arash!
January 3, 2018
We welcome Dr Arash Saeidpour to the lab. Arash will be working on measles and pertussis in the US, on an NIH-funded project with Dr
MIDAS network
July 7, 2017
Pej has been elected to the executive committee of the NIH’s Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS). He will also serve as chair.
NIH Study Section
July 7, 2017
For the next four years, Pej will serve on the National Institutes of Health study section, IRAP (Infectious, Reproductive, Asthma and Pulmonary Conditions).
Dr Jasmina Luczo
August 8, 2016
We welcome Dr Jasmina Luczo to the lab. Jaz will be based in the Department of Infectious Diseases (College of Veterinary Medicine, UGA), working on avian
International visitors
August 1, 2016
We are delighted to host two international visitors this summer. Dr Claudia Pia Ferreira will be visiting from São Paulo State University, Brazil. She is
New postdoc!
August 1, 2016
The Rohani lab welcomes a new postdoc, Dr Afshin Mesbahi, who will be working on statistical inference for mechanistic models.
Pej speaks at Gates meeting
April 19, 2016
Pej spoke at a meeting organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, addressing the burden of infant pertussis in low and middle income countries.
Polymicrobial interactions: Influenza and Pneumonia
October 22, 2015
In the newly published paper by Shrestha et al., we use a mechanistic transmission model within a likelihood framework to infer the nature, strength and
Magpantay et al. (2015; Parasitology)
July 22, 2015
Felicia’s paper has been accepted in Parasitology, as part of a special issue on Modelling Infectious Diseases (edited by Andy Fenton, University of Liverpool). In our