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September 2008: The National Science Foundation  funds the Koelle lab. Over the next three years, we will be working on combining ecological and molecular models to understand the evolutionary dynamics of influenza.

September 2008: P.I. Katia Koelle and collaborator Sarah Cobey publish a review paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Their review details host and viral patterns that can be used to detect punctuated immune escape in rapidly evolving pathogens, most notably RNA viruses. See Publications for more.

August 2008:
The James S. McDonnell Foundation funds the Koelle lab. We will be working towards the development and application of a dimensionless number for understanding viral evolution.
                                         
August 2008: The Koelle lab's gearing up for fall semester. Brian Adams, Meredith KamradtPriya Khatri, and Rachel Northeim are four Duke undergrads who will be doing independent study projects in the lab this fall. Welcome!

August 2008:
P.I. Katia Koelle will be presenting her and her lab's recent work on influenza at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

August 2008:
Post-doc Virginia Pasour joins the Koelle lab. Virginia will be working on methods to isolate the relative roles of intrinsic versus extrinsic factors in diseases characterized by punctuated immune escape. Virginia comes to us from Cornell University (Ph.D. in Applied Math, 2007), by way of UCLA (2007-2008).

February 2008: P.I. Katia Koelle and collaborator Yoshiro Nagao publish on dengue in PNAS. The article compares three different models of dengue dynamics to identify immunological factors responsible for the increase in dengue hemorraghic fever observed in Thailand over the last 25 years. See Publications for more.

January 2008: P.I. Katia Koelle coauthors a paper on malaria in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. The article focuses on the link between rainfall variability and malaria dynamics in the East Aftrican highlands. See Publications for more.