New lab members Sukanta Sarkar and Anurag Sau

New lab members Sukanta Sarkar and Anurag Sau

Sukanta Sarkar joined the Drake lab as a Postdoctoral Associate during the summer of 2022. Sukanta earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Indian…

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New lab member -Kaniz Fatema Nipa

New lab member -Kaniz Fatema Nipa

Nipa comes to the lab with a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Texas Tech University where she studied the effects of demographic and environmental stochasticity…

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New lab members Kyle Dahlin and Suzanne O'Regan

New lab members Kyle Dahlin and Suzanne O’Regan

Kyle Dahlin joined the Drake lab as a Postdoctoral Associate this summer after receiving his PhD in Mathematics from Purdue University. He will be working…

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New lab member: Ana Rivera

New lab member: Ana Rivera

The Drake lab welcomes technician Ana Rivera. Ana is an alumna of University of Puerto Rico and comes to us with a background in environmental…

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Potential global distribution of Chytrid fungus

Potential global distribution of Chytrid fungus

A second blog post from Tad Dallas’s internship at Vertica has been posted at their website. Read here to see how Tad used HP Vertica and…

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Species diversity and big data

Species diversity and big data

In summer 2015, graduate student Tad Dallas completed an internship with Vertica looking at big data problems in species distribution model. For an overview see his blog…

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TEDxUGA: What Jenga can teach us about epidemics

TEDxUGA: What Jenga can teach us about epidemics

John’s TEDxUGA talk “The Tipping Point: What Jenga Can Teach Us About Epidemics” has been posted to YouTube.  According to the Athens Banner Herald, it was…

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News coverage of REU Site and Ebola research

News coverage of REU Site and Ebola research

Grady Newsource reporter Mikhaela Singleton spoke with Laura Alexander, John Drake and others about research on Ebola and the Population Biology of Infectious Diseases REU…

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Modeling the spread and control of Ebola in West Africa

Modeling the spread and control of Ebola in West Africa

A workshop on Modeling the Spread and Control of Ebola in West Africa was held at the Historic Academy of Medicine at Georgia Tech on…

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YouTube talk on critical transitions in infectious diseases by Suzanne O'Regan

YouTube talk on critical transitions in infectious diseases by Suzanne O’Regan

On January 28, Suzanne O’Regan gave a talk on her postdoctoral work on critical transitions in infectious diseases to the National Institute for Mathematical and…

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