{"id":2,"date":"2016-09-01T15:10:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T15:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-03-11T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:24:14","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/Mosquito.png\" alt=\"Mosquito\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/Mosquito.png 800w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/Mosquito-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/Mosquito-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I am a disease ecologist and public health scientist\u00a0studying the spatial dynamics\u00a0of infectious diseases passed from animals to humans. I am a PhD candidate\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/departments\/eh\/degree-programs\/phd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Health Sciences<\/a> department\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emory.edu\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emory University<\/a> and my dissertation research is on the spatial determinants of\u00a0<em>Yersinia pestis<\/em>, the bacteria that causes the plague.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My research <\/a>aims\u00a0to\u00a0improve\u00a0disease surveillance techniques by accounting for surveillance bias and imperfect detection of cases.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Doctoral Committee:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table style=\"height: 333px\" width=\"992\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/#!LWALLER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/lance.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Lance Waller, PhD\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/lance.jpg 180w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/lance-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/#!YLIU74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/people-328.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Yang Liu, PhD\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/people-328.jpg 200w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/people-328-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/#!SEBELT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/sarnat.png\" alt=\"Dr. Stefanie Sarnat, ScD\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/sarnat.png 180w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/sarnat-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/#!HHCHANG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/chang.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Howard Chang, PhD\" width=\"163\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/eeb.ku.edu\/townsend-peterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/Town.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. A. Townsend Peterson, PhD\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/#!LWALLER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lance Waller, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Committee Chair<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/#!YLIU74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yang Liu, PhD<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/#!SEBELT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stefanie Sarnat, ScD<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sph.emory.edu\/faculty\/profile\/#!HHCHANG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Howard Chang, PhD<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eeb.ku.edu\/townsend-peterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A. Townsend Peterson, PhD<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Current Funding:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"width: 549px;height: 487px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 120px\">\n<td style=\"width: 536.533px;height: 21px\">Research Assistantship on NIH Grant No. 1R01HD092580-01A1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 187px\">\n<td style=\"width: 536.533px;height: 187px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-345 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2019\/03\/NICHD-300x263.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2019\/03\/NICHD-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2019\/03\/NICHD-768x673.png 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2019\/03\/NICHD-1024x898.png 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2019\/03\/NICHD.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"width: 531px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 531px\">National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2014 &#8211; 2019)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 531px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-121 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/nsf.jpg\" alt=\"National Science Foundation\" width=\"166\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/nsf.jpg 166w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/nsf-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-122 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/GRFP_logo-300x126.png\" alt=\"Graduate Research Fellowship Program\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/GRFP_logo-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/GRFP_logo-768x322.png 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/GRFP_logo-1024x429.png 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/buller\/files\/2016\/09\/GRFP_logo.png 1532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. (NSF grant number). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a disease ecologist and public health scientist\u00a0studying the spatial dynamics\u00a0of infectious diseases passed from animals to humans. 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