Dwyer Lab

Greg Dwyer

Greg Dwyer

Principal Investigator

Greg is a professor in the Ecology & Evolution department at the University of Chicago. His research is focused on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, and especially on how mathematical models can help us understand disease dynamics.

Current Lab Members

Katie Dixon

Katie Dixon

PhD Candidate

Katie utilizes mathematical and statistical modeling informed by field experiments to explore environmental mechanisms that support pathogen coexistence for different virus morphotypes in Douglas-fir tussock moth caterpillars.

Will Koval

Will Koval

PhD Candidate

I’m a disease ecologist studying the variation underlying disease dynamics of insect-baculovirus interactions. I’m broadly interested in spatial disease ecology. I’m specifically interested in stochastic epidemic theory, mechanisms of dispersal, and the history of ecology, particularly as it relates to epidemiology and the development of theory.

Sophia Horigan

Sophia Horigan

PhD Candidate

Sophia uses mathematical models and field data to understand disease dynamics in the broader frame of management and climate change. Her research focuses on competition and coexistence between a fungal and viral pathogen in the Lymantria dispar moth.

Bonnie Mendelson

Bonnie Mendelson

PhD Student

Bonnie combines transmission experiments in the field with mathematical modeling to test how host tree species effects transmission rates for a species specific virus for Lymantria dispar caterpillars.

Juan Santos Rosas

Juan Santos Rosas

PhD Student

I am broadly interested in using mathematical models to study host-pathogen interactions and their effects. More specifically, I hope to explore how these interactions shape entire systems and how they change over time due to environmental changes.

Previous Lab Members

Jiawei Liu, PhD Student (2022), Postdoctoral Resercher at Perdue
Spencer Carran, Postdoctoral Resercher (2020), Biologist with the US FDA
Joseph Mihaljevic, Postdoctoral Resercher (2017), Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University
Molly Gallagher, PhD Student (2017), Computational Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Arietta Fleming-Davies, Postdoctoral Researcher, Assistant Professor in Biology at the University of San Diego  

David Kennedy, PhD Student (2012), Assistant Professor of Biology at Penn State University
Libby Eakin, PhD Student (2012), Teaching Fellow at the Knowles Teacher Initiative
David Paez, Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantitative Biologist at the USGS
Pauline Fujita, PhD Student (2007), Director of Computational Engineering at Genentech
Karen Abbott, PhD Student (2007), Professor of Biology at Case Western Reserve University
Susan Harrell Yee, PhD Student (2006), Ecologist at EPA’s Gulf Ecosystem Measurement and Modeling Division
Kevin Drury, PhD Student (2004), Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Huntington University

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