Our research

As climate change is poised to cause massive shifts in disease distributions and burdens, predicting these shifts is a major theme in biological research and is critical for public health preparedness. Yet most current projections assume that pathogens and vectors will not evolve in response to environmental change, in part because their adaptive potential remains poorly understood.

My work aims to identify the potential for adaptive evolution in infectious disease systems, drawing on concepts and approaches from conservation biology, evolutionary genomics, and disease ecology.