Lab News

ESA fellow

Pej has been elected fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

CIDER!

NIAID announced new Center of Excellence in Influenza Research & Response at UGA!  Pej will serve as its Deputy Director.

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Toby award!

Delighted to announce Toby Brett has received UGA’s Postdoctoral Research Award!

Lab collaboration

A new paper by Borchering et al. (2021) on influenza B viruses was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.  This paper

New paper by Toby

New paper out by Brett & Rohani (2020) in PLoS Biology that develops an early warning pipeline for (re)emerging infectious diseases

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Professorship

Pej has been named a Regents’ professor at the University of Georgia (2019)

AAAS Fellow!

Pej Rohani and John Drake were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018)

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Pertussis Book!

A volume titled Pertussis: Epidemiology, Immunology & Evolution to be published by Oxford University Press.  Co-edited with Sam Scarpino.

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Welcome Arash!

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

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MIDAS network

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.