I presented preliminary results from my second dissertation aim at the 67th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in New Orleans, Louisiana. There, I competed for the ASTMH Young Investigator Award and won First-tier Mention! The award supported travel and attendance for the meeting as well as brought attention […]
I presented preliminary results from my second dissertation aim at the 103rd annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in New Orleans, Louisiana. The agenda was packed with disease ecology sessions a welcomed increase since by first attendance in 2011. The poster session was well attended with many spatial ecologists stopping by to […]
Dr. Peter Diggle at the Center for Health Informatics, Computing, and Statistics (CHICAS) at Lancaster University in Lancaster, England developed the spatial statistical clustering algorithm I am employing for my dissertation analysis over 20 years ago. I was lucky to meet him, other CHICAS faculty (namely Dr. Ben Taylor, Dr. Luigi Sedda, and Dr. Barry […]
I presented preliminary results from my second dissertation aim at the annual Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease (EEID) meeting in Glasgow, Scotland. This was the first meeting outside of the United States and there was a different set of attendees, mainly from universities around the United Kingdom. The poster session was well attended and […]
The second annual symposium for the Emory Climate Analysis and Solutions Team was well attended by faculty and students at Emory University and local partners to hear about project successes from the past year. I presented a lightning talk about how climate influences the spatial distribution of plague and shared some preliminary results from the […]
During a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP) I worked at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC). There, I learned a novel laboratory assay protocol for Yersinia pestis antibodies in wildlife blood samples. This was an exciting opportunity to work with federal government scientists and staff. Combined […]
I presented the findings of a team of graduate students from the Emory Climate Analysis and Solutions Team (ECAST) that I co-led with Sam Peters working with the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Resilience assessing the potential public health co-benefits of Atlanta’s Climate Action Plan adopted in 2015. The poster was well received and I made connections […]
The Laney Graduate School at Emory University awarded me $2,500 in additional funding to support my NSF GRIP with the USDA in Fort Collins, CO in Winter 2018. Funds will support my transportation, lodging, and additional laboratory supplies brining my total funding for the project to $2,500. The second and third aim of my dissertation […]
Fantastic news! I was just awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP) Award to work with scientists at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) National Wildlife Disease Program (NWDP). My sponsor scientists, Dr. Sarah Bevins and Dr. Jefferey Chandler, will mentor me from October […]
I joined a team of field biologists from the California Department of Public Health on routine plague surveillance in the Sierra Nevadas near Truckee, California. Over the course of three days I learned how to set and bait rodent traps at campsites and saw how captured rodents are processes for data collection and safely released […]