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Infectious disease dynamics

Faculty in the Immunology and Infectious Diseases graduate program with research interests in this area.

Name	Email/phone	Interests include
Bjornstad, Ottar Associate Professor of Entomology and Biology Adjunct Professor in Statistics	onb1@psu.edu 814-863-2983 (University Park)	Outbreak and persistence of infectious disease (ecological statistics, population dynamics, species interactions, spatial dynamics, ecology of infectious disease).
Grenfell, Bryan Alumni Professor of Biology	grenfell@psu.edu 814-865-6080 (University Park)	Understanding the spatio-temporal dynamics of infectious disease and how these are affected by control strategies. Phylodynamics: exploring how pathogen phylogenies are affected by host immunity, transmission bottlenecks and epidemic dynamics.
Harvill, Eric Associate Professor of Microbiology and Infectious Disease	harvill@psu.edu 814-863-8522 (University Park)	Interactions between bacterial pathogens and host immunology.
Holmes, Edward (Eddie) Professor in Biology	ech15@psu.edu 814-863-4689 (University Park)	Evolutionary biology of viruses, especially mechanisms that enable viruses to cross species barriers and emerge in new hosts.
Hudson, Peter Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Willaman Professor of Biology	pjh18@psu.edu 814-865-6057 (University Park)	Wildlife disease ecology: the transmission and dynamics of parasites in wild animals, with particular emphasis on zoonotic infections and parasite community structure.