Research interests and current projects
My research interests include but are not limited to:
I am currently funded through a DFG Eigene Stelle at Applied Zoology and Nature Conservation, University of Greifswald and the Helmholtz Institute for One Health. The goal of this project is to study the the ecology and evolution of primate phageomes. Before this, I was a Postdoc at the Leendertz Lab (twitter: @Leendertz_lab; website: https://www.leendertz-lab.org/) at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany and was a member of the DFG research group entitled "Sociality and Health in Primates" (https://www.sohapi.de/), where I used phylogenetic comparative methods to understand the ecology and evolution of microorganisms across a large diversity of primates.
I finished my PhD in Biology at McGill University in 2017 studying with Dr. Jonathan Davies and Dr. Colin Chapman. During my PhD I was affiliated with the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and worked closely with the Tai Chimpanzee Project and Drs. Roman Wittig and Fabian Leendertz.
In 2017, I had the opportunity to conduct a year long Postdoc at Columbia University working with Drs. Thomas Briese and Ian Lipkin at the Center for Infection and Immunity supported by a DAAD P.R.I.M.E. fellowship. I analyzed samples collected in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire with Drs. Fabian Leendertz and Lothar Wieler, As part of this work, I helped develop a virome capture sequencing method that employs millions of probes to detect and genetically characterize all 207 viral taxa that infect vertebrates (described in detail here and here) that we used to explore viral diversity in necropsy samples collected over several decades.
My research interests include but are not limited to:
- Linking biodiversity and health using the One Health framework
- Behavioral ecology and disease
- Disease evolution and ecology in wildlife communities and how this interacts with disease emergence processes
- Conservation applications for research
I am currently funded through a DFG Eigene Stelle at Applied Zoology and Nature Conservation, University of Greifswald and the Helmholtz Institute for One Health. The goal of this project is to study the the ecology and evolution of primate phageomes. Before this, I was a Postdoc at the Leendertz Lab (twitter: @Leendertz_lab; website: https://www.leendertz-lab.org/) at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, Germany and was a member of the DFG research group entitled "Sociality and Health in Primates" (https://www.sohapi.de/), where I used phylogenetic comparative methods to understand the ecology and evolution of microorganisms across a large diversity of primates.
I finished my PhD in Biology at McGill University in 2017 studying with Dr. Jonathan Davies and Dr. Colin Chapman. During my PhD I was affiliated with the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and worked closely with the Tai Chimpanzee Project and Drs. Roman Wittig and Fabian Leendertz.
In 2017, I had the opportunity to conduct a year long Postdoc at Columbia University working with Drs. Thomas Briese and Ian Lipkin at the Center for Infection and Immunity supported by a DAAD P.R.I.M.E. fellowship. I analyzed samples collected in Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire with Drs. Fabian Leendertz and Lothar Wieler, As part of this work, I helped develop a virome capture sequencing method that employs millions of probes to detect and genetically characterize all 207 viral taxa that infect vertebrates (described in detail here and here) that we used to explore viral diversity in necropsy samples collected over several decades.
Past funding sources
During my PhD I was funded by an NSF GRF, a German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademisher Austaucsch Dienst) long-term research grant, the Explorer Club's Eddie Bauer Youth Grant, the Vanier Canada Graduate Program, the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Systems Biology Training Program. In April 2017, my Post Doc at the Freie Universität and Columbia University was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement n° 605728 (P.R.I.M.E. – Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience). A previous post doc was funded through the DFG: "Sociality and Health in Primates".
During my PhD I was funded by an NSF GRF, a German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademisher Austaucsch Dienst) long-term research grant, the Explorer Club's Eddie Bauer Youth Grant, the Vanier Canada Graduate Program, the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Systems Biology Training Program. In April 2017, my Post Doc at the Freie Universität and Columbia University was supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement n° 605728 (P.R.I.M.E. – Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience). A previous post doc was funded through the DFG: "Sociality and Health in Primates".
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