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      <image:title>Evolutionary Epidemiology Lab</image:title>
      <image:caption>I use theory from evolutionary epidemiology to gain a better understanding of how hosts (including us humans) use macronutrients and calorie restriction during infection: defense strategy or parasite manipulation? Photo credit: J. Rosen</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Using adaptive dynamics and a co-evolutionary framework, we illustrate how changes in resource acquisition (e.g., via anorexia or calorie restriction) can alter the size and severity (virulence) of epidemics. Outcomes depends on how changes in resources affects mechanisms of resistance, tolerance, or parasite coercion. See Hite et al., in press @ TREE</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Much of my work combines longitudinal field patterns and population-level experiments using mesocosms (here, sampling in Panamá)</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Evolutionary Epidemiology Lab - How does THE STABILITY OF HOST POPULATIONS AFFECT VIRULENCE EVOLUTION?</image:title>
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      <image:caption>The fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra). Our work with the amphibian chytrid, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, indicates that the effects of host demographic structure overwhelm the negative effects of ultraviolet radiation (UV)1. My collaborators and I showed experimentally that UV kills the parasite in the environment. However, field surveys revealed that disease is actually more common in sites with higher UV levels because these sites harbor key life stages of the host — older and larger stages, which produce higher levels of parasitic zoospores. These life-stages overwhelm the negative effects of UV. Thus, overemphasis on the environmental constraint (UV) could misinform management decisions. These findings caution that disease mitigation programs must consider links between habitat, host-stage structure, and disease.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Using the zooplankton Daphnia dentifera and its fungal (yeast) parasite Metschnikowia bicuspidata, my collaborators and I combined longitudinal field surveys and multiple experiments (e.g., creating experimental epidemics in lab and field-based mesocosms) to parameterize epidemiological models that accounted for stage-specific variation in key epidemiological traits that govern infection. Our results reveal that canonical models often fail to accurately predict population-level dynamics because they overlook within-host variation (e.g., size, stage, genotype, reproductive mode); complex feedbacks between individual traits and population dynamics influence epidemiological outcomes.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Can we use novel drug-diet therapies that combine strategic use of macronutrient manipulation and calorie restriction to slow the evolution of virulence and antibiotic resistance? By the way, virulence and antibiotic resistance emerge almost simultaneously in numerous systems, yet we understand very little about these connections. Photo credit: Cristiana Couciero</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Evolutionary Epidemiology Lab - A bioenergetic approach to understanding how natural selection shapes strategies for host defense and pathogen evolution</image:title>
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      <image:title>Evolutionary Epidemiology Lab - During infection, are host and pathogen diets in line, or in conflict?</image:title>
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      <image:caption>I connect lessons in the classroom to real-world current issues to help simplify abstract ideas and make them more tangible and applicable for students. In both the classroom and the lab, I strive to cultivate a supportive, engaging, and interactive learning community where students not only become comfortable asking questions but we also help each other discover answers and ways to address challenging questions. I am particularly excited to learn and implement next-generation approaches to teaching biology. NSF’s ARISE program and working with UNL’s Center for Transformative Teaching and Innovative Design was an essential milestone for me. I can not recommend this program enough!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My teaching philosophy is based on the premise that teaching and learning are not separate acts, carried out by separate actors. Everyone in the classroom, including the instructor, is engaged as teacher, learner, and thinker. My goal as a teacher and mentor is to help students learn to really see and appreciate the vast complexity, dynamical, and interconnectedness in the world around them. Learning-specific course content and particular skills are, of course, crucial elements to any educational endeavor but not as important as the ability to think critically: to ask thoughtful questions, identify and inventory facts to address those questions, have the skills to weigh competing lines of evidence, to research and hypothesize possible and probable impacts or implications of those facts, to make informed and constructive feedback recommendations as a result of that process.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Through collaborations involving numerous community partners (e.g., local and national Audubon Chapters, community artists, schools, WonderLab museum of science, health, and technology, and numerous funding agencies), we designed, built, and installed eight new breeding habitats "functional sculptures" that mimic freestanding chimneys and provide additional breeding and roosting habitat for this endangered bird. We also led numerous outreach projects to increase awareness and appreciation of this amazing bird and their role in the global food web by combining art and science. Please visit my outreach page: swifts in the city Also, I was recently invited to collaborate with Katie Rutter of the Grotto Network and Notre Dame University to make a video synopsis of the project and raise awareness of the plight of the Chimney Swift. You can view the video here !</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Outreach is an essential component that strongly informs my approach to teaching and research (and vice versa). Since 2014, I have been working with the local Audubon Chapter (Sassafras Audubon Society) where I developed and led a conservation and outreach program 'Swifts in the City' — a collaborative project focused on improving the plight of the chimney swift (a "near-threatened" bird species). Why? Chimney swift ('the dolphins of the sky') populations appear to be declining quite drastically (i.e., IUCN “near threatened” in the US, COSEWIC “federally threatened” in Canada). While the causes of these declines are multifaceted, a major issue is the loss of breeding habitat (old hollow tree snags, and industrial and residential chimneys).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Terrace, UW-Madison Union A few of my favorite things about Madison: - Super bike friendly with lots of trails around/near lakes and to/fro charming coffee shops, parks, gardens, art galleries, farmer’s markets, breweries etc. - The lakes! In winter, summer, spring, or fall (and especially winter when they are frozen!!). - Olbrich Botanic Gardens - The food! Outside of town: - Great road biking in the Driftless region - Hiking - Devils lake</image:caption>
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