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: Stepanie Sherman (to be finalized)
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


Anand Bhardwaj

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

Kelsy Alaine Broadaway

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

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

Jannelle Couret

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

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.

Michael Gehring

mgehrin@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2008
Degree/ School:BS - Carnegie Mellon University, BS - Carnegie Mellon
University, MS - Michigan State University
Advisor: TBD
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.

Dylan Grippi

dgrippi@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2008
Degree/ School: BS, University of Arizona
Advisor: TBD 
Research interests: Ecology of infectious disease, environmental and anthropogenic effectors of disease, host-parasite coevolution

Justine Hall

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

Lynn Huynh

lyhuynh@emory.edu
Year Matriculated: 2005
Degree/ School: BS Northern Arizona University
Advisor: Jim Thomas
Research interests: Genetics of a chromosomal rearrangement in the white-throated sparrow that is linked to plumage and behavioral polymorphisms
Website: http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~lyhuynh/

Erin Keebaugh

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

Beth Kochin

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

Rebecca Kunkel

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: TBD
Research interests: Ecology of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, spatial ecology of diseases

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

Julia Moore

Year Matricuated: 2009
Degree/School: BS Applied and Computational Mathematics, University of Washington
Advisor: TBD
Research Interests: Zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, mathematical disease modeling

Benjamin Parker

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

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

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

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: Jaap de Roode (to be finalized)
Research interests: Evolution of virulence, disease dynamics in metapopulations and over long periods of time, the selective pressures of co-infection

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.

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: TBD
Research interests:  Disease ecology

Jingping Yang

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