Amy Wesolowski

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2014-2016

(Former Bio) Amy Wesolowski is an infectious disease epidemiologist.  Her research focuses on how we human behavior can impact the spatial spread of various infectious diseases with a particular focus on vector-borne and vaccine-preventable diseases.

Colin Worby

Computational Biologist, Broad Institute
CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2013-2016

(Former Bio) I am interested in the use of pathogen genomic data to investigate disease transmission dynamics. I am developing models to better understand within-host pathogen diversity, and integrating these into a framework to analyse between-host transmission. Click here for more information about Colin Worby.

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Siyang Xia

Computational Scientist Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD)

(Former Bio) Siyang is broadly interested in the dynamics and evolution of the interactions between pathogens and human immune systems, and how vaccines could affect these interactions. In his Ph.D., Siyang studied the mosquito Aedes aegypti, a major disease vector for dengue and Zika virus. His dissertation examined the impacts of human activities on the mosquito’s evolution and the possibilities of using human-assisted evolution to reduce vector-borne diseases. Outside of…

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Al Xin

Research and Communications Assistant
Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology

Al Xin is a member of the Harvard College Class of 2023 and is studying Statistics with a secondary in Linguistics. They have an interest in machine learning and hope to incorporate their skills in computer science with medicine, possibly pursuing an MD-PhD program. Al maintains the website, updates social media, and provides graphics for the CCDD. They have previously researched with the von Recum lab at Case Western Reserve…