Alumni

Ed is a mathematical biologist and experimentalist who investigates the ecology and evolution of inducible defenses in the face of sabotage by parasites. He is particularly interested in the design principles of immune systems. Ed was co-advised by Simon Levin. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH, Ed joined the CDC Outbreak Analytics branch and subsequently joined the Yale School of Medicine as an Associate Research Scientist.

Micaela is an infectious disease ecologist with strong interests in seasonality and other biological rhythms, environmental justice, digital epidemiology, transgenerational immunity, and vaccine modes of action.  She held an NSF Fellowship at Princeton 2015-17 and her work was featured in Science magazine in spring 2020 in an exploration of whether biological rhythms might impact the course of COVID-19. She has gone on to leadership roles in academia, environmental justice, and diplomacy.

Sarah is a physiological ecologist who pursues the often dirty work of studying helminth infection in hosts ranging from tadpoles to buffalo to mice. She brings together ideas from immunology, parasitology, and community ecology to better understand how hosts, multiple parasites, and nutrition interact to influence host health and disease dynamics. She left to become an Associate Professor at the Claremont-McKenna colleges.

Jenni brings research experience in genetics and molecular biology as well as dramatic flair to bear upon problems in parasite transmission. One of her favorite systems to think about is transmission of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) by triatomine vectors. She completed her Ph.D. jointly with our group and Andy Dobson’s in 2015. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware.

Ann is that rare blend of theoretician and empiricist, and she cares equally about the mechanistic basis and population consequences of immunological variations. She continues to apply her skills and cross-scale vision to understand how flour beetles fight infection. She completed her Ph.D. in 2014 and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Houston. Ann is now an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University.

Tina was our Senior Research Specialist 2011-2018. She brought loads of experience in molecular biology, immunology, and cell biology to bear upon a variety of Graham Group research projects. She left the group to become a research administrator for EEB.

Jackie applies top-notch immunoparasitological skills to important problems in the within-host ecology of parasites and commensals. After a postdoctoral position in circadian immunology at Columbia University, she took up a job in the pharmaceutical industry.

Carrie is a veterinarian as well as a card-carrying, PhD-carrying field ecoimmunologist, helminthologist and anthraxologist. When she was based at Princeton (2013-2015), she applied these considerable talents to understanding parasite burden and immune function in wild baboons.

Romain is an evolutionary ecologist and veterinarian who is interested in how natural selection shapes the strength and duration of immune defenses, especially maternally derived immunity. He has worked a lot on wild birds as well as mammals, including the charming Soay sheep of St. Kilda, Scotland (while he was a postdoc at Princeton, 2012-2015) and Ghanaian bats. He has gone into analytical consulting. Romain is also on a quest for perfect cheese.