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 Kamradt, Priya
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.