News from our group

Group Updates Summer 2023

News

Nobody from the group graduated last year, but Hayley Hemme joined our group as a new PhD student!

Group Updates Summer 2022

Publications

We had another great REU student join us this summer, Annika Cleven. Together with Zane Billings, she continued work on a project that Jacqueline Dworaczyk started in the…

Group Updates Spring 2022

News

Three students in the group successfully graduated. Yang Ge is now an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi; Amanda Skarlupka is now a president’s…

Group Updates Summer 2021

Publications

Rachel Mercaldo successfully graduated in spring of 2021 and is now working as a Postdoc at the NIH!

Updates for the new year

Publications

Recently, a new PhD student, Zane Billings, joined our group. He previously did an REU in our group and liked it enough to apply to our PhD program and now joined the team.…

A few more publications

Publications

We recently had a few new publications come out: One of the PhD thesis chapters of our former student Brian got published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and we…

Several COVID-19 related projects

Publications

Like most infectious disease modelers, we have gotten involved in several COVID-19 related projects recently. A lot of work is done as part of UGA’s Center for the Ecology…

A few new publications

Publications

We recently published a few new papers: An introduction and review of simulation modeling in the within-host/immunology level, a study of cough distribution in TB patients…

PhD student Brian McKay successfully defended his PhD thesis

Group Members

Brian McKay defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Dr. McKay! Watch papers from his PhD work come out in the next year, lots of great flu research!