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: TBD
Research interests: Comparative genomics, population genetics and genetic 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
*PBEE Executive Committee

Omar Cornejo

ocornej@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2004
Degree/ School: BA Universidad Simón Bolívar, MS Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas.
Advisor: Bruce Levin
Research interests: Population genetics, molecular evolution, evolutionary biology of diseases

Sean Griffing

smgriff@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2004
Degree/ School: Oberlin College, BA (1999). UC Santa Cruz, Science Journalism Certificate (2002)
Advisor: Kumar Udhayakumar
Research interests: Disease ecology and host-vector-pathogen evolution, population modeling, phylogeography, gene networks, bioinformatics.

Lynn Huynh

lyhuynh@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2005
Degree/ School: BS Northern Arizona University
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Natural selection and evolution: How do organisms respond to environmental stress and what is the fitness cost of rapid adaptation?
Website: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~lyhuynh/
*PBEE Executive Committee

Alaine Keebaugh

accase@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2004
Degree/ School: BS University of Georgia
Advisor: James Thomas
Research interests: comparative genomics, population genetics and molecular evolution
Website: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~accase/

Erin Keebaugh

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

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

Elizabeth Lindsey
efriedl@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2002
Degree/ School: BS Indiana University
Advisor: Sonia Altizer
Research interests: Host-parasite interactions in natural systems, genetic and environmental factors of host susceptibility, insect immune effectors and responses

Elisa Margolis

emargol@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2002 (MD/PhD program); 2004 (PBEE)
Degree/ School: BS Brown University
Advisor: Bruce Levin
Research interests: Evolution of infectious diseases, population biology of bacteria infections, non-inherited antibiotic resistance, cancer and evolutionary medicine

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

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
Research interests: Disease ecology, antimicrobial resistance, microbial evolution

Serena Reeder

sreeder@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2003
Degree/ School: BS Oklahoma State University (2001), MS Texas Tech University (2003)
Advisor: Les Real
Research interests: Relationships between emerging infectious diseases & their mammalian hosts (co-evolution), intraspecific & interspecific variation in rabies virus pathogenesis, molecular systematics, population genetics

Karyn Meltz Steinberg

kmeltz@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2004
Degree/ School: BA Northwestern University
Advisor: Mike Zwick
Research interests: Genetics of complex disorders, genetic susceptibility to infectious disease, and population genomics

Eleanore Sternberg

esternb@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2007
Degree/ School: BS University of California, Berkeley Research
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Ecology of zoonotic diseases, spatial and temporal modeling of infectious disease

Yan Wei

ywei@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2005
Degree/ School: BS Beijing Forestry University, MS University of Bath
Advisor: Bruce Levin
Research Interests: Evolution and ecology of bacterial biofilm; antibiotic resistance; population dynamics of bacteria and phage.

Jingping Yang

jyang29@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2007
Degree/ School: BS and MS from Nanjing University
Advisor: TBD
Research interests: Gene conflict; evolution and dynamics of disease