We work on the ecology and evolution of infectious disease.
We are interested in virulence and infectiousness,
adaptation to new hosts, vaccine failure, and drug and insecticide
resistance.
We want to know what can be done to slow, stop or even reverse evolution that harms human health and well being. Conventional biomedical science tries to understand molecules, genes and biochemical pathways. We want to understand the ecological and evolutionary processes involved.
Our work involves evolutionary biology, ecology, parasitology, microbiology, genetics, and immunology. We do a lot of experimentation, a lot of quantitative analyses, and a fair bit of math modelling.
We work with the players that cause malaria (parasites, mammals, mosquitoes), entomopathogenic fungi that can stop it, Marek's
disease in poultry and myxomatosis in rabbits.
