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…
UPDATE: This paper has now been published by PLOS Biology, including new projections going into Summer 2015. Click here for the full text. A preprint of our…
In recent years, mathematical models and computer simulations have become an integral part of planning and coordinating public health response to outbreaks of infectious disease….
Lab alumnus Barbara Han was interviewed by Randy Simon on the public radio program Earth Wise concerning her work on using machine learning to predict…
Several groups from the NIH MIDAS Network have been cooperating for the past few months on research supporting the response to the 2014 West Africa epidemic of…
White-nose syndrome is an emerging fungal pathogen currently devastating bat populations in the Eastern U.S. We showed previously that the spread of White-nose syndrome is…
While avian influenza viruses are notoriously diverse, human adapted influenza is quite similar from place to place, evolving only relatively slowly and with strain replacement…
Malaria is prominent among the vector-borne infectious diseases widely anticipated to be affected by climate change. Roughly, the idea is that global and regional climate…
Two new papers from our study of the ecology of avian influenza viruses are now available. The first paper, by Barton et al., derives an…
Genetic diversity is an obvious determinant of reassortment in influenza viruses. But how is that diversity measured? How does the rate of reassortment depend on…