PhD Candidate
jat335@cornell.edu
Research Interests
I am interested in the connection between ecology and modern day evolutionary processes. Specifically, my research focuses on how host meta-community dynamics impact disease evolution in networks. Currently I am investigating this in “the wild” by trapping meadow voles in fragmented grassland habitats and estimating dispersal of the voles and their pathogens. Additionally, I have created a forward-thinking stochastic simulation of disease evolution in a network, and will be implementing machine learning techniques in order to parameterize my simulation on the genetic data obtained from my field work.
Brief CV
- 2011 – B.A. Biological Sciences, University of Chicago
- 2013 – Searle Lab Manager, Cornell University
- 2013-Present – Graduate Student, Cornell University
- 2013-2014 – Cornell Fellow