Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology
(Former bio) Aishani is a senior at Harvard College and is in the Grad and Lipsitch Labs, interested broadly on questions of preparedness in infectious diseases. She works on modeling within-host kinetics of SARS-CoV-2, CRISPR-Cas13-based diagnostic testing for antibiotic susceptibility in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and understanding the role of viral discovery in zoonotic hosts in outbreak preparedness and response. Aishani previously focused on seroprevalence studies and rapid antigen testing in the…
Assistant Professor, Boston College Connell School of Nursing
CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2014-2016
(Former Bio) Nadia’s current research focuses on the use of mathematical models to better understand the impact of treatment and prevention strategies on HIV incidence and prevalence in Sub-Saharan Africa. The goals of her program of research are to use quantitative methods and novel data streams to better understand the inequalities in health care distribution and access in domestic and international settings. Click here for more information on Nadia Abuelezam.
PhD in Population Health Sciences, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology
(Former Bio) At the CCDD, Emma Accorsi completed a PhD in Population Health Sciences with a focus on infectious disease epidemiology. While completing her B.S. in Applied Mathematics at Emory University, she conducted research on mosquito-borne disease at the CDC. After graduation, she worked at the electronic medical records company Epic Systems for two years and then conducted satellite remote sensing research with NASA. Her interests include antibiotic resistance, environmental…
Professor, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine & Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University School of Engineering
CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2011-2012
(Former Bio) Bree Aldridge specializes in combining live-cell microscopy and mathematical modeling to create intuitive descriptions of complex cell biology. Bree is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology and Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. The Aldridge lab seeks to bring a quantitative framework to understand tuberculosis infection and drug response at single-cell resolution. Please click here for more information about Bree Aldridge.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences at the University at Albany SUNY
CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2014-2016
(Former Bio) My research focuses on the evolutionary processes and ecological factors that drive the diversification and adaptation of microorganisms in various ecosystems, transcending different time scales ranging from disease outbreaks to the origins of life. Using an inter-disciplinary approach combining next-generation sequencing (genomics), population genetics, phylogenetics and lab-based assays, I aim to identify the underlying mechanisms that govern population-level structure and dynamics of microbes in response to environmental perturbations…
Senior Biomedical Data Scientist, Princeton University
Kirschstein-NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at CCDD
(Former Bio) Brian is an evolutionary biologist. He received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology where he studied plant genetics. Brian was a Kirschstein-NRSA postdoctoral fellow working with Marc Lipsitch and Bill Hanage at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As a postdoc, he studied bacterial evolution with a particular focus on modeling the evolution of multi-locus traits, such as antibiotic…
Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
CCDD Postdoctoral Research Fellow. 2015-2018
(Former Bio) Taj Azarian, MPH, PhD, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, working with Drs. Bill Hanage and Marc Lipsitch. His overarching research focused on understand the epidemiology of bacterial pathogens through the application of whole-genome sequencing, phylogenetics, population genetics, with specific interest in the growing issue of antibiotic-resistance. While at CCDD Dr. Azarian’s also studied the…
Resident, Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgical Program, Stanford University
CCDD Student-MS, 2012-2014
(Former Bio) Cayley graduated from HSPH with an MS in Epidemiology and is now completing her MD at UCLA. In fall 2018 she will begin her surgery residency. She works in a lab that focuses on mathematical modeling of the cardiovascular system. Please click here for more information about Cayley Bowles.
(Former bio) Christopher Boyer is a postdoctoral research fellow in Marc Lipsitch’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. With Marc he is modeling the viral kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 by combining data from serological and virological assays. He is also interested in applying modern causal methods to the study of infectious disease. His previous research spans several topics in epidemiology and the social sciences. He received a…
Permanent Researcher at Inria, the French National Research Institute for Digital Science and Technology
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2017-2019
(Former Bio) Karel Břinda was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health working with Bill Hanage in the Department of Epidemiology and Michael Baym at Harvard Medical School. His research, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focuses on methods for rapid antibiotic resistance detection from point-of-care sequencing data obtained by mobile sequencing technologies. Prior to coming to Harvard, Karel received his Ph.D.…
