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People who work in Infectious disease dynamics

People investigating the dynamics of infectious diseases, from proteins to pandemics. Includes disease ecology, evolutionary biology and population dynamics.

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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.
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.
Read, Andrew  
  • Professor of Biology and Entomology
  • Eberly College of Science Distinguished Senior Scholar
afr3@psu.edu
814-867-2396
   (University Park) 		Evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions, particularly virulence, infectiousness, vaccine-driven evolution, and drug and insecticide resistance.