Population Biology of Infectious Disease

Evolutionary genetics & molecular epidemiology
My research focuses on spatial statistical analysis for georeferenced sequence data with particular interest in assessing landscape impacts on geographic patterns of evolution.

Recent publications:

• Waller, L.A., Smith, D., Real, L.A., and Childs, J. (2003) "Monte Carlo assessments of goodness of fit for ecological simulation models".
• Smith, D., Lucey, B.,Waller, L.A., Childs, J.E., and Real, L.A. (2002) "Predicting the spatial dynamics of rabies epidemics on heterogeneous landscapes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 99, 3668-3672.