A5062881515- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Dengue and Mosquito Control Research
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Malaria Research and Control
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2022-2025
University of Georgia
2024
Bard College
2020
Mosquitoes in the genus Culex are primary vectors US for West Nile virus (WNV) and other arboviruses. Climatic drivers such as temperature have differential effects on species-specific changes mosquito range, distribution, abundance, posing challenges population modeling, disease forecasting, subsequent public health decisions. Understanding these differences underlying biological dynamics is crucial face of climate change.We collected empirical data thermal response immature development...
Abstract Background West Nile virus (WNV) is the most common cause of mosquito-borne disease in continental USA, with an average ~1200 severe, neuroinvasive cases reported annually from 2005 to 2021 (range 386–2873). Despite this burden, efforts forecast WNV inform public health measures reduce incidence have had limited success. Here, we analyze forecasts submitted 2022 Forecasting Challenge, a follow-up 2020 Challenge. Methods teams probabilistic annual (WNND) for each county USA season....
Abstract The many respiratory viruses that cause influenza-like illness (ILI) are reported and tracked as one entity, defined by the CDC a group of symptoms include fever 100 degrees Fahrenheit cough and/or sore throat. In United States alone, ILI impacts 9-49 million people every year. While tracking single clinical syndrome is informative in respects, underlying differ their parameters outbreak properties. Most existing models treat either virus or whole. However, there need for capable...
Many infectious disease forecasting models in the United States (US) are built with data partitioned into geopolitical regions centered on human activity as opposed to defined by natural ecosystems; although useful for collection and intervention, this has potential mask biological relationships between environment disease. We explored concept analyzing correlations climate West Nile virus (WNV) case aggregated ecological regions. compared minimum, maximum, mean annual temperature;...
Microbiomes are essential to a host's physiology and health. Despite the overall importance of microbiomes animal health, they remain understudied in wildlife. function as physical barriers invading pathogens, changes diversity or composition microbes within host may disrupt this barrier. In order use wildlife ecology, knowledge natural variation among species is essential. We compare two avian that share same habitat niche our study area, western screech-owl (Megascops kennicottii)...