Bio:  Dr. Lauring received a PhD in molecular biology in 2000, followed by a MD in 2002, both from the University of Washington. He did his graduate work on FeLV with Julie Overbaugh at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Lauring completed a medical residency and infectious diseases fellowship at UCSF. Adam’s postdoctoral research in Raul Andino’s laboratory focused on the evolutionary dynamics of poliovirus. He joined the faculty…

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Bio: Dr. Ying Taur received his M.D. and M.P.H. from New York Medical College, and completed internal medicine residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He then completed his infectious diseases fellowship training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, after which he stayed on there as physician-scientist faculty. Dr. Taur’s research involves the study of the intestinal microbiota and its impact on cancer patients. He has received…

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  Duncan MacCannell is the chief science officer for the CDC’s Office of Advanced Molecular Detection (OAMD), where he helps to coordinate the implementation and support of pathogen genomics, bioinformatics, high-performance computing and other innovative laboratory technologies across the CDC’s four infectious disease centers. With a broad focus on public health laboratory science and strategic innovation, he directs the agency's high performance computing center of excellence, and works to integrate…

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Dr Robert Woods is an infectious diseases physician-scientist. The common theme of his research is the study of ecological and evolutionary forces that maintain diversity in pathogen populations by combining theory, bioinformatics, laboratory experiments and clinical data, with the goal to better understand pathogen evolution, predict medically relevant evolutionary phenomena and rationally designing interventions. In his Ph.D. Dr. Woods used experimental evolution with E. coli and computer simulations to understand…

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Natalie Dean is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Florida. Her research is on methods for clinical trial and study design for evaluating vaccine efficacy, with a focus on emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola, Zika, and Lassa fever. She is Principal Investigator of an NIH/NIAID R01 to develop and evaluate innovative trial design and analysis methods adapted to the outbreak setting. She received…

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Isabel is an Assistant Professor in the Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She is interested in applying novel epidemiological and statistical methods to understand the dynamics of infectious diseases. While she is interested in infectious diseases generally, most of her experience is related to vector-borne diseases such as dengue, malaria, and Zika.  Isabel completed her medical training in Colombia, and pursued a PhD…

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Matthew Samore, MD is Chief of the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Utah, Director of the Informatics, Decision Enhancement, and Analytic Sciences (IDEAS) Center at the Salt Lake City VA, and an HA and Edna Benning Presidential Professor of Medicine. He is Principal Investigator of the Utah sites for two CDC-funded networks, the Prevention Epicenter Program and Modeling Infectious Diseases (MInD) in Healthcare.  He attended the University of Wisconsin…

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Caroline Colijn works at the interface of mathematics, evolution, infection and public health. She joined SFU's Mathematics Department in 2018 as a Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Infection, Evolution and Public Health. She did her PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo, where she studied the foundations of quantum mechanics. She changed tack in her postdoctoral years, working on mathematical modelling at  McGill and on TB…

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Daniel Larremore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research develops statistical and inferential methods for analyzing large-scale network data, and uses those methods to solve applied problems in diverse domains, including public health and academic labor markets. In particular, his work focuses on generative models for networks, the ongoing evolution of the malaria parasite…

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Tim Anderson works at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) in San Antonio, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree in Zoology from Oxford University and a Masters in Medical Parasitology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, before moving to the University of Rochester (New York State) for graduate school. Following postdoctoral work in Oxford and Milan, he moved to his current position at Texas Biomed. He…

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