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I'm generally excited about the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. From this setting, I love thinking about evolutionary accessibility, levels of selection, and robustness in evolution and in ecological-evolutionary dynamics. I also have a growing interest in model complexity (e.g., when to drop scales, discretize/use continuous approximations, include/exclude networks, finite/infinite populations, etc.). | |||
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*I'd really like to learn more about financial models, | *I'd really like to learn more about financial models, | ||
*... questions in social science, and | *... questions in social science, and | ||
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One fun problem is how heterogeneity in hosts' immune responses might mediate competition among pathogens. What kinds of behaviors result when some hosts view different pathogens as identical? This problem happens to be biologically grounded! | One fun problem is how heterogeneity in hosts' immune responses might mediate competition among pathogens. What kinds of behaviors result when some hosts view different pathogens as identical? This problem happens to be biologically grounded! | ||
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Board games, card games, hiking | Board games, card games, hiking | ||
Revision as of 03:47, 20 May 2008
I'm a doctoral candidate in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan. My dissertation is a blend of theoretical and statistical models of influenza virus dynamics.
Main interests
I'm generally excited about the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. From this setting, I love thinking about evolutionary accessibility, levels of selection, and robustness in evolution and in ecological-evolutionary dynamics. I also have a growing interest in model complexity (e.g., when to drop scales, discretize/use continuous approximations, include/exclude networks, finite/infinite populations, etc.).
Expertise
I've had meaningful encounters with:
- Nonlinear dynamical systems
- Adaptive dynamics
- Methods in bioinformatics (ML and Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, codon models)
- Agent-based modeling and genetic algorithms
- (working on this one) Fitting nonlinear stochastic dynamics
What I hope to get out of the CSSS
- I'd really like to learn more about financial models,
- ... questions in social science, and
- ... neat, new quantitative methods.
- I'd also really like to strengthen my foundations in network theory, dynamical systems, modeling, etc.
Possible projects
One fun problem is how heterogeneity in hosts' immune responses might mediate competition among pathogens. What kinds of behaviors result when some hosts view different pathogens as identical? This problem happens to be biologically grounded!
I'd also be happy to work on a project exploring public goods games or parasitism gone bad (cooperation).
Other interests
Board games, card games, hiking