We work on the ecology and evolution of infectious disease.
We exploit modern notions of adaptive evolution to attack biomedically and theoretically challenging phenomena like virulence and infectiousness, adaptation to new hosts, and vaccine escape, and drug and insecticide resistance.
Our work involves evolutionary biology, ecology, parasitology, microbiology, genetics, and immunology. Currently, much of the work concerns the three players that cause malaria (the parasite, vertebrate host and mosquitoes), as well entomopathogenic fungi and Marek's disease of chickens. In the past, we have also worked on the parasites of Daphnia, African trypanosomes , and parasitic nematodes of mammals.
