Current Lab Members
![Pej Rohani](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Rohani_GA_Atthletic_portrait_2018-768x768.jpg)
Pejman Rohani
Regents' Professor
Georgia Athletics Association Professor
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Odum School of Ecology
Deputy Director, Center for Influenza Disease and Emergence Research
![Christian Gunning](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Christian-Gunning-300x300.png)
![image of Tobias Brett](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Tobv-Brett.jpg)
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Lab Alumni
![image of Bodie Weedop](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bodie.jpeg)
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![image of Arash Saeidpour](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Arash-Saeidpour.png)
![image of Deven Gokhale](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/photo-Deven-e1607464263456-768x768.jpg)
![image of Jasmina Luczo](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Jasmina-e1607461486670-300x300.png)
Jasmina Luczo
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Experimental Scientist, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness, CSIRO
![image of Ana Bento](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/image1-e1436914179506.jpg)
Ana Bento
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Indiana University
![image of Navideh Noori](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/noori_navideh.jpg)
Navideh Noori
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Current position: Research Scientist, Institute for Disease Modeling
![image of Liz Levin](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/levin-e1607463128669.jpg)
![image of Matthieu Domenech de Celles](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Matthieu-e1607462997867-300x300.jpg)
Matthieu Domenech de Celles
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Current position: Leader, Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
![image of Afshin Mesbahi](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Afshin-Mesbahi-300x300.png)
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![image of Felicia Magpantay](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/magnapatay-e1607464024735.jpg)
Felicia Magpantay
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Queen's University
![image of Micaela Martinez-Bakker](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/bakker-200-e1607463934283.jpg)
Micaela Martinez-Bakker
PhD student
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University
![image of Sourya Shrestha](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sourya-e1607463897994.jpg)
Sourya Shrestha
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
![image of Benjamin Roche](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/benjamin-e1607463867455.jpg)
Benjamin Roche
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Faculty, International Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Complex Systems (UMMISCO), Montpellier, France
![image of Julie Blackwood](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/julie-e1607463827660.jpg)
Julie Blackwood
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Williams College, MA
![image of Maria Riolo](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/riolo_maria-e1607463794124.jpg)
Maria Riolo
PhD student
Current position: James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellow in Complex Systems, University of Chicago
![image of Vicki Brown](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/vicki-e1607463748919.jpg)
Vicki Brown
Postdoctoral research associate
![image of Doug Jackson](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Doug.jpeg)
Doug Jackson
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Programmer Analyst at NOAA Fisheries Service’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz
![image of Kevin Bakker](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/bakker-e1607463287152.jpg)
Kevin Bakker
Lab manager
Current position: PhD student, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
![image of Xue Zhong](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/xue-e1607463667335.jpg)
Xue Zhong
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Vanderbilt University
![image of Daniel Streicker](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/daniel-e1607463364346.jpg)
Daniel Streicker
Graduate student
Current position: Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow
![image of Jerome Niogret](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/jerome.jpg)
Jerome Niogret
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Research Scientist at USDA-ARS, Fort Lauderdale
![image of Romulus Breban](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/romulus-e1607465234833.jpg)
Romulus Breban
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Associate Researcher at Institut Pasteur, Paris
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Marc Choisy
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: faculty, University of Montpellier & CNRS & IRD, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Jamie Winternitz
PhD student
Current position: Postdoctoral research scientist, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
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Helen Wearing
Postdoctoral research associate
Current position: Associate Professor of Mathematics & Biology, University of New Mexico
![image of Matt Bonds](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Matt-e1607463563563.jpg)
Matt Bonds
PhD student
Current position: Research Associate, Department of Global Health and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
![image of Natalia Mantilla-Beniers](https://rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/natalia-e1607463613383.jpg)
Natalia Mantilla-Beniers
PhD student
Current position: Faculty, Department of Mathematics, UNAM, Mexico