People
Graduate Students
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Olivia Reiter: MSc (Coadvised by Ben Ashby)
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Simon Gamboa Levi: PhD (Coadvised by Leithen M’Gonigle)
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Amin Afshari: PhD (Coadvised by Leithen M’Gonigle)
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Yexuan Song: PhD (Coadvised by Caroline Colijn)
I am interested in phylogenetics. In particular Ancestral State Reconstruction methods which are widely used in phylogenetics for identifying the character states of evolutionary ancestors. I am also interested in using mathematical models of infectious diseases to study how diseases spread.
- Mahdi Salehzadeh: PhD (Coadvised by John Stockie)
I have a wide range of research interests that are motivated by biological applications. My current work involves using epidemiology and evolutionary approaches to examine bark beetle infestations. I’m interested in exploring multi-scale questions that occur in a variety of fields, broadly speaking falling under the following categories:
- Investigating the dynamics within the host (tree) using computational fluid dynamics approaches.
- Creating a brand-new model to depict an outbreak of the bark beetle while refining the presumptions made in earlier literature studies. and evaluating the severity of many parameters to limit the outbreak.
- Examining issues brought up in the study of evolution, such as local adaptation.
Undergraduates
- Luka Yuki: (USRA 2025)
## Alumni:
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Amy Langdon: PDF (Cohosted by Caroline Colijn)
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Siavash Riazi: PDF (Cohosted by Caroline Colijn)
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Rebeccah Hall: MSc (2022-2024) Now a PhD student with Vincent Clavez and Matt Osmond in Brest France
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Ananaga Bajgai: (USRA 2023, 2024)
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Oliver Fujiki: (USRA 2022, MSc 2023-2024)
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Erwan Hardy: (Visiting Scholar, April-July 2025)