Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Mentees — Current Positions

Chadi Saad-Roy — Faculty, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

Antonio Rodrigues — Faculty, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX

Cara Brook — Faculty, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Lawrence Uricchio — Faculty, Tufts University, USA

Senay Yitbarek Faculty, University of North Carolina, USA

Carly Rozins  Faculty, York University, Canada 

Penny Lynch — Postdoc Penn State, USA

Ryosuke Iritani  Postdoctoral Fellow, RIKEN, Kyoto University, Japan

Ben Ashby Faculty, Department of Mathematics, Bath University

Sean Meaden  Marie Curie Fellow, New Zealand

Rotem Ben Shachar  Tempus Labs, Inc., Redwood City, CA, USA

Katherine Roberts  Postdoc Exeter, UK

Jon Ryder  Own business

Alex Best  Faculty, Department of Mathematics, University of Sheffield

Amy Pedersen  Faculty, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh

Katie Hampson  Faculty, Institute of BAH&CM, University of Glasgow

Ruth Hamilton  Academic Publishing

Gráinne Long  AstraZeneca, UK

Steve Webb —  Syngenta, UK

Ben Adams  Faculty, Department of Mathematics, Bath University

Dylan Childs —  Faculty, Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield

Graduate Students — Graduation Year and Thesis Title

Nina Sokolov (IB) — 2024. “The dynamics and emergence of shared viruses in honey bees and native bees”

Graham Northrup (CCB) — 2024. “Mechanistic mathematical models for understanding the evolution and epidemiology of infectious diseases”

Sarah Guth — 2022. “The dynamics and evolutionary underpinnings of zoonotic transmission and emergence” (UC Berkeley)

Elisa Visher — 2022. “Trade-offs and heterogeneities in host-parasite interactions” (UC Berkeley)

Lewis Bartlett — 2018. “Spatial structure and parasite diversity: Bee viruses”

Robyn Manley — 2018. “Community level impacts of disease emergence”

Ruari Donnelly — 2014. “Lifespan and evolution of disease resistance”

Martin Grunnil — 2014. “Vertical transmission and the persistence of disease”

Basit Sajeed — 2012. “Dengue Fever in Pakistan”

Hannah Tidbury — 2012. “Mechanisms of insect immunity to viruses”

Sally Bell — 2009. “Invasions and disease transmission”

Alex Best — 2009. “The evolution of resistance: the role of population structure”

Aungkana Sajeeng — 2007. “Insect immunity to viruses”

Alice Laughton — 2007. “Within host evolutionary dynamics of parasites”

Edward Jones — 2006. “Modelling conflict between natural enemies”

Martin Miller — 2006. “Adaptive dynamics and resistance”

Hamady Dieng — 2000. “Breeding preferences of vector mosquitoes”

Michael Mealor — 2004. “Spatial structure and host-parasite interactions”

Charles Mwandawiro — 2000. “Vector feeding heterogeneities”

Undergraduate Researchers

2024-2025: Megan Moe, Elizabeth Cortez Gomez, Hadi Ammar, Emily Qi, Allison Olvera

2023-2024: Seva Hatip, Anna Hatzakis, Ricky Pankratz, Zucel Yadira Rodriguez, Natalie Walzer

2022-2023: Jonathan Barajas, Jovany Diaz, Noah Parker, Edwin Ramos, Alex Soloman (REU Summer 2023)

2021-2022: Anisha Ali, Sehar Masud, Katia Renault, Cristina Villalobos

2020-2021: Melissa Chao, Marina Norfolk, Annika McBride, Diego Gonzalez Ventura, Tomas Le, Niklas Blanadet

2019-2020: Dina Alhassani, Nilbert Pascual, Nicole DeNamur, Edith Lai, Aren Yarcan, Diego Gonzalez Ventura, Annika McBride, Melissa Chao, Alyssa Chang, Stacy Ahn, Thomas Le, Niklas Blanadet

2018-2019: Hannah Mahjoub, Tanya Kumar, Nilbert Pascual, Annika Avery, Dina Alhassani, Nicole DeNamur, Edith Lai, Aren Yarcan, Melissa Chao

2017-2018: Yazmin Haro, Khadija Soufi, Vivian Hoang, Zoha Momin, Prempal Athwal, Claire Bang, Aleeza Sheikh, Zohal Sarwary, Tanya Kumar, Nilbert Pascual, Hannah Mahjoub