A5030864798- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Network Security and Intrusion Detection
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
2017-2025
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2017-2025
Knoxville College
2018-2023
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2011-2022
eHealth Initiative
2022
Emory and Henry College
2018
University of California, Berkeley
2018
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
2017
University of California, Irvine
2017
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
1970-2016
Animal communication is frequently studied with conventional network representations that link pairs of individuals who interact, for example, through vocalization. However, acoustic signals often have multiple simultaneous receivers, or receivers integrate information from signallers, meaning these interactions are not dyadic. Additionally, non-dyadic social structures shape an individual's behavioural response to vocal communication. Recently, major advances been made in the study...
In long-lived organisms, experience can accumulate with age, such that older individuals may act as repositories of ecological and social knowledge. Such knowledge is often beneficial spread via transmission, leading to the expectation ageing will remain socially well-integrated. However, involves multiple processes modulate relationship between age connectivity in complex ways. We developed a generative model explore how drive changes network position shape individuals’ capacity transmit...
In the modeling of infectious disease spread within explicit social contact networks, previous studies have predominantly assumed that effects shifting associations groups are small. These models utilized static approximations networks. We examine this assumption by dynamic networks where shift according to individual preference based on three different measures network centrality. The results our investigations clearly show may not hold in many cases. demonstrate these differences...
Abstract Ecological factors generally affect population viability on rapid time scales. Traditional analyses (PVA) therefore focus alleviating ecological pressures, discounting potential evolutionary impacts individual phenotypes. Recent studies of rescue (ER) cases in which severe, environmentally induced bottlenecks trigger a response that can potentially reverse demographic threats. ER models have focused shifting genetics and resulting recovery, but no one has explored how to incorporate...
With the emergence or re-emergence of numerous mosquito-borne diseases in recent years, effective methods for emergency vector control responses are necessary to reduce human infections. Current practices often vary significantly between different jurisdictions, and executed independently at spatial scales. Various types surveillance information (e.g. number infections adult mosquitoes) trigger implementation measures, though target scale locally. This patchy measures likely alters efficacy...
Objective The evolution of antibiotic resistance is far outpacing the development new antibiotics, causing global public health concern about infections that will increasingly be unresponsive to antimicrobials. This risk emerging may meaningfully altered in highly AIDS-immunocompromised populations. Such populations fundamentally alter bacterial evolutionary landscape two ways, which we seek model and analyze. First, widespread, population-level immunoincompetence creates a novel host...
Desert communities are threatened with species loss due to climate change, and their resistance such losses is unknown. We constructed a food web of the Mojave terrestrial community (300 nodes, 4080 edges) empirically examine potential cascading effects bird extinctions on this desert network, compared mammals lizards. focused birds because they already disappearing from Mojave, relative thermal vulnerabilities known. quantified bottom-up secondary evaluated each vertebrate group. The impact...
Recent research has focused on the role of physiological stress in species conservation and population persistence. However, it is currently unknown how much individuals can withstand before negative impacts size will be detectable. In order to generate testable predictions address this lack, we created a set theoretical models that incorporate current theories stress, specifically allostasis (cumulative increase cost coping with stressors), alters an individual's ability survive reproduce....
As the understanding of importance social contact networks in spread infectious diseases has increased, so interest feedback process disease altering network. While many studies have explored influence individual epidemiological parameters and/or underlying network topologies on resulting dynamics, we here provide a systematic overview interactions between these two influences population-level outcomes. We show that sensitivity outcomes to combination describe are critically dependent...
Invasive insect pests cost the agricultural industry billions of dollars annually in crop losses. Timely detection is critical for management efficiency. Innovative pest strategies, such as environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques, combined with efficient predators, maximize sampling resolution across space and time may improve surveillance. We tested hypothesis that temperate insectivorous bats can be important sentinels Specifically, we used a new high-sensitivity molecular assay invasive brown...
COVID-19 is challenging many societal institutions, including our criminal justice systems. Some have proposed or enacted (e.g. the State of New Jersey) reductions in jail and/or prison populations. We present a mathematical model to explore epidemiological impact such interventions jails and contrast them with consequences maintaining unaltered practices. consider infection risk likely in-custody deaths, estimate how within-jail dynamics lead spill-over risks, not only affecting...
Members of social groups risk infection through contact with those in their network. Evidence that organization may protect populations from pathogens certain circumstances prompts the question as to how affects spread ectoparasites. The same grooming behaviors establish bonds also play a role progression ectoparasitic outbreaks. In this paper, we model interactions between and allogrooming efficiency consider threats have shaped evolution behaviors. To better understand impacts on...
Abstract Rapid evolution of advantageous traits following abrupt environmental change can help populations recover from demographic decline. However, for many introduced diseases affecting longer‐lived, slower reproducing hosts, mortality is likely to outpace the acquisition adaptive de novo mutations. Adaptive alleles must therefore be selected standing genetic variation, a process that leaves few detectable genomic signatures. Here, we present whole genome evidence selection in bat are...