Lab Leader
Departments
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Current Research Project(s)
A major project of the lab involves trying to determine the underlying cause or causes of the current pertussis resurgence in the U.S., Britain, and some other countries. To do this, we confront mathematical models of transmission and immunity with data on pertussis dynamics from a variety of sources. We develop and use very sophisticated, computationally-intensive algorithms for performing statistical inference on dynamical systems.