Students in Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution

Igor Albizua

ialbizu@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2007
Degree/ School: BS University of Basque Country, MS University of Basque Country
Advisor: Stephanie Sherman
Research interests: Comparative genomics, population genetics and genetic diseases

Pierre Ankomah

pankoma@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2009
Degree/School: BA - Franklin & Marshall College
Advisor: Bruce Levin
Research Interests: Within-host microbial infection dynamics; Evolution of antibiotic resistance

Carolyn Ayers

cayers2@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2011
Degree/ School: BS College of William and Mary
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Mathematical ecology, particularly concerning infectious diseases

Karoun Bagamian

kbagami@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2004
Degree/ School: BS Tulane University
Advisor: James Mills
Research interests: Wildlife disease ecology, zoonotic diseases, immunology


Anand Bhardwaj

abhard2@emory.edu
Year Matricuated: 2008
Degree/School: BS Biology, Emory College
Advisor: Les Real
Research Interests: Modeling Infectious Disease Spread, Application of Network Theory to Disease Modeling

Brooke Bozick

bbozick@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2010
Degree/School: BS Pennsylvania State University (2007)
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Ecology of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, transmission dynamics in reservoir host populations

Kelsy Alaine Broadaway

kbroada@emory.edu
Year Matricuated: 2009
Degree/School: B.S. Montana State University
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Genetic epidemiology; population & quantitative genetics

Mary Bushman

mbushma@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2011
Degree/ School: BA Carleton College
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Widespread infectious diseases

Jannelle Couret

jcouret@emory.edu
Year Matricuated: 2009
Degree/School: A.B. Princeton University, MEM Duke University
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Eco-epidemiology of waterborne and vector-borne disease, geospatial analysis
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Matthew Ezewudo

mezewud@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2011
Degree/ School: MS Georgia State University
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Genomes of organisms

Justine Garcia

jrhall2@emory.edu
Year Matricuated: 2009
Degree/School: B.S. Biology, B.A. Chemistry/University of New Mexico
Advisor: Nicole Gerardo
Research Interests: Host-microbe interactions, symbiosis, environmental factors of disease, evolution of pathogenicity

Michael Gehring

mgehrin@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2008
Degree/ School:BS - Carnegie Mellon University, BS - Carnegie Mellon
University, MS - Michigan State University
Advisor: James Taylor
Research interests: Depressed and threatened populations from a genetic and spatial perspective with the
goal of elucidating influences on said populations and using this information for crafting informed management strategies.

Sarah Guagliardo

sguagli@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2010
Degree/School: BS The George Washington University (2005); MPH Yale University (2010)
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Eco-epidemiology of vector-borne and zoonotic disease, spatial analysis, remote sensing

Erin Keebaugh

ekeebau@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2007
Degree/ School: BS University of Georgia
Advisor: Todd Schlenke
Research interests: Host-pathogen interactions and gene conflict

Beth Kochin

bkochin@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2007
Degree/ School: BA Yale University
Advisor: Rustom Antia
Research interests: Disease dynamics both within and between hosts

Rebekah Kunkel

rkunkel@emory.edu
Year Matricuated: 2009
Degree/School: BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2005), MPH, University of Michigan (2007)
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Ecology and epidemiology of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases

Rebecca Levine

rclevin@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2008
Degree/ School: BA Princeton University, MPH Emory University
Advisor: Uriel Kitron
Research interests: Ecology of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, spatial ecology of diseases

Zachary Lynch

zrlynch@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2011
Degree/ School: BS University of Rochester
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Interaction between animals and their internal microorganisms

Neil Milan

nmilan@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2005
Degree/ School: BS University of CA, Davis (2005)
Advisor: Todd Schlenke
Research interests: Ecology, disease transmission and reservoirs, pathogen virulence and host defenses
*PBEE Executive Committee

Michael Mina

michael.mina@emory.edu
Year Matriculated:  2009
Degree/School: A.B.  Dartmouth College, Currently MD/PhD at Emory
Advisor: Keith Klugman, MD, PhD
Research Interests:  Influenza and bacterial coinfections, vaccines, innate immunology, international infectious diseases, water and sanitation development in rural countries

Julia Moore

jlmoor8@emory.edu
Year Matricuated: 2009
Degree/School: BS Applied and Computational Mathematics, University of Washington
Advisor: Justin Remais
Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, the relationship of social and environmental drivers to infectious disease spread

Benjamin Parker

bparke4@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2008
Degree/ School: B.A. / The University of Chicago
Advisor: Nicole Gerardo  
Research interests:  Host-parasite coevolution & evolutionary ecology

Michele Parsons

mparsons@cdc.gov
Year Matriculated: 2005
Degree/ School: BA, Biology, Spanish studies certificate, Saint Anselm College; MS, Molecular Microbiology, The Catholic University of America
Advisor: Robert Tauxe/ Thomas Gillespie
Research interests: Disease ecology, antimicrobial resistance, microbial evolution

Amanda Pierce

amanda.pierce@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2010
Degree/School: BS University of Kansas (2010)
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Evolution of behavior and mating systems

Johanna Salzer

jsalzer@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2008
Degree/ School: DVM, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2007), BA, Florida State University (2003)
Advisor: Thomas Gillespie
Research interests:  Relationships between habitat disturbance and emergence of infectious disease

Gayatri Sekar

gayatri.sekar@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2010
Degree/School:  B.Tech, SRM University -India
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests:  Adaptive Evolution of Immune System, Host-Parasite co-evolution

Joshua Shak

jshak@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2010
Degree/School: BA Amherst College
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Infectious diseases, evolution, biofilms, antibiotic resistance

Ivan Shoemaker

i.r.shoemaker@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2011
Degree/ School: MS Columbus State University
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Pollinators and genetic diversity of pollen loads

Eleanore Sternberg

esternb@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2007
Degree/ School: BS University of California, Berkeley Research
Advisor: Jaap de Roode
Research interests: Evolution of virulence, disease dynamics in metapopulations and over long periods of time, the selective pressures of co-infection

Jo Williams

ajwill6@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2008
Degree/ School: MS from Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi; BA from Bryn
Mawr College
Advisor: Greg Dasch/ Thomas Gillespie
Research interests:  Disease ecology

Jingping Yang

jyang29@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2007
Degree/ School: BS and MS from Nanjing University
Advisor: Victor Corces
Research interests: Evolution on epigenetics