{"id":47,"date":"2014-09-28T00:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:23:05","slug":"people-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-47 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=244'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/drake_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"John Drake\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-244\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-244'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n <strong>John Drake<\/strong> is an ecologist at the University of Georgia. John&#8217;s past projects in infectious disease dynamics have included West Nile virus, whooping cough, avian influenza, and White Nose syndrome (an emerging fungal pathogen of bats). Click <a href=\"http:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/drakelab\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information about his lab.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=252'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/park_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Andrew Park\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-252\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-252'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Andrew Park<\/strong> is an evolutionary biologist and modeler at the University of Georgia. His area of expertise is emerging pathogens with a focus on the host-parasite interaction. More about his lab&#8217;s work is available <a href=\"http:\/\/parklab.ecology.uga.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=246'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/ferrari_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Matt Ferrari\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-246\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-246'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Matt Ferrari<\/strong> is the statistical expert in the group. One of Matt&#8217;s areas of expertise&mdash;the dynamics of measles in developing countries&mdash;is central to this project. More from his team at Penn State can be found at his lab&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/theferrarilab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=253'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/rohani_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Pej Rohani\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-253\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-253'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Pej Rohani<\/strong> is from the University of Georgia. Pej wrote the book on modeling infectious diseases. Literally. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Modeling-Infectious-Diseases-Humans-Animals\/dp\/0691116172\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1412611107&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=rohani\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals<\/em><\/a>. Pej is a world class disease modeler and expert on the dynamics of pertussis, the pathogen that causes whooping cough. His lab&#8217;s work can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/rohanilab.ecology.uga.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=245'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/epureanu_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Bogdan Epureanu\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-245\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-245'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Bogdan Epureanu<\/strong> (University of Michigan) studies vibrations and acoustics. This may seem to be rather unrelated to infectious disease dynamics, but it&#8217;s not. Bogdan is one of the best when it comes to detecting when mechanical systems are near to criticality. More about his research group at the University of Michigan can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~epureanu\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=251'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/oregan_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Suzanne O&#039;Regan\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-251\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-251'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Suzanne O&#8217;Regan<\/strong> (North Carolina A&amp;T) has developed theory for anticipating infectious disease emergence and elimination.  At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nimbios.org\/personnel\/pd_ORegan\" target=\"_blank\">NIMBioS<\/a>, she is developing a mathematical framework to elucidate the influence of changing environmental drivers on infectious disease risk. \r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=242'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/brett_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Toby Brett\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-242\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-242'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Toby Brett<\/strong> is a postdoc at the University of Georgia working on mathematical models of infectious diseases, early-warning signals for disease emergence, theory and application of stochastic processes, and the science of complex systems.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=250'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/odea_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Eamon O&#039;Dea\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-250\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-250'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Eamon O&#8217;Dea<\/strong> (University of Georgia) is a computational biologist at the University of Georgia who has previously worked on building and fitting models for the spread of several infectious diseases. He is interested in understanding when predictions based on CSD are accurate and especially when such predictions are more accurate than those obtained using traditional methods. More on his research can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/ebodea.name\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=307'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tredennick_198x212.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Andrew Tredennick\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-307\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-307'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n<strong>Andrew Tredennick<\/strong> (University of Georgia) is a quantitative ecologist interested in the predictability of complex dynamics in space and time. He is working on confronting the theory of critical slowing down with data. More about his research can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/atredennick.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \r\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=296'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mckee_198x212b.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Amelie McKee\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-296\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-296'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Amalie McKee<\/strong> is a postdoc at Penn State. She uses mathematical models to compare vaccination strategies to achieve and maintain disease elimination.  She is recently interested in using data to find signatures of progress towards disease elimination at different levels of aggregation.  \r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=243'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dibble_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Chris Dibble\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-243\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-243'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Chris Dibble<\/strong> worked on the project as a postdoc at the University of Georgia from 2015-2016. His prior research examined the consequences of intraspecific variation in host traits for disease dynamics. Chris is interested in applying CSD theory to real-world outbreak data in order to better utilize its many practical implications.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=285'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/chen_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Shiyang Chen\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-285\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-285'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Shiyang Chen<\/strong> is a PhD student in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on developing data driven methods to detect the instability of complex nonlinear systems. His contributions to Project AERO are concerned with developing early warning signals for systems with spatial distribution.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=249'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/miller_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Paige Miller\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-249\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-249'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Paige Miller<\/strong> is a PhD student in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Her past work concerned looking for signals of critical slowing down in periodically forced systems. Her contributions to Project AERO are concerned with separating seasonality from bifurcation-induced noise.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=248'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/marty_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Eric Marty\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-248\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-248'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>\u00c9ric Marty<\/strong> (University of Georgia) is a data visualization professional with a background in graphic design, interactive art and computer music. He is interested in novel and multi-modal data representation. More about his work can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericmarty.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/?attachment_id=247'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/hall_198x212.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Spencer Hall\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-247\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-247'>\n\t\t\t\t<div style=\"text-align: justify; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;\">\r\n    <strong>Spencer Hall<\/strong> (University of Georgia) is a statistical analyst familiar with machine learning techniques such as gradient boosting, neural networks, support vector classifiers, decision trees, and random forests. He develops in R, R Markdown, and R Shiny. \r\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daphnia.ecology.uga.edu\/midas\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}