The schedule of the Fifth Annual QSE3 IGERT Symposium can be found here: 5th Annual Symposium Schedule This year we have four invited talks by distinguished professors. Wayne Getz Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California Berkeley “A Computational Population Modeling Platform for Linking the Inner and Outer Worlds of Organisms” David

Spatial and Temporal Spread of Disease in Discrete Space The SARS epidemic of 2003 and the 2009 H1N1 pandemic illustrated the capacity of infectious pathogens to spread quickly over vast distances. However, rapid dissemination is not the only spatial and temporal aspect in disease propagation. In today’s globalized world, public health systems of different qualities come

Connecting rabies dynamics in wildlife populations to surveillance data Raccoons are currently considered the only carnivore host in the northeast United States responsible for rabies virus maintenance.  We investigate  potential drivers behind seasonal rabies dynamics in raccoon, skunk, and fox populations.  I will present the time-series data which motivates this study along with some of