IDAS Career Development Seminar


The success of our annual Spring IDAS Seminar Series a has been expanded into the new Fall IDAS Career Development Seminar.  The weekly series will continue discussions on infectious disease research and control across scales theme with a focus on career development.  

Tuesdays, Fall 2023

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

In-Person:  O Wayne Rollins Research Center, Room 1052

Virtual:  Zoom link access by joining the IDAS Listserv

August 29, 2023

Jacobus de Roode, PhD - IDASTP Director

2023-2024 IDASTP Overview

Stephanie Bellman - IDASTP Trainee - EHS

The Ticks, The Virus, and The People: Studying Heartland virus ecology and epidemiology across scales in Georgia

Amber Coats - IDASTP Trainee Alum - MMG

A Cross-Scales Approach to Understanding the Role of Chronic Infections in the Emergence of New Viral Variants

September 5, 2023

Ashley Alexander - IDASTP Trainee Alum - PBEE

Interspecific and Intraspecific Interactions of Staphylococcus aureus in the Context of Cystic Fibrosis Infections

LM Bradley - IDASTP Trainee Alum - PBEE

Predicting host-parasite dynamics after resource pulses: From host physiology to community infection risk

September 5, 2023

Dave Civitello, PhD - IDASTP Training Faculty

Evolution of a Paper - Parasite consumption and host interference can inhibit disease spread in dense populations

September 19, 2023

Maya Nadimpalli, PhD - IDASTP Steering Committee Member

Evolution of a Paper - Flipping your message: From research article to commentary and all the challenges in between

September 26, 2023

Stephen Mugel - IDASTP Trainee - EHS

Integrative perspectives on environmental determinants of infectious disease: Questions, data, and challenges

Kelsey Shaw, DVM/PhD - IDASTP Trainee Alum - University of Norte Dame

Snails and Scales: Studying schistosomes with an IDAS perspective

October 3, 2023

IDASTP Career Panel featuring IDASTP Trainee Alums

Ian Hennessee, PhD - IDASTP Trainee Alum - CDC

Epidemic Intelligence Officer

Frederica Lamar, PhD - IDASTP Trainee Alum - CDC

Epidemic Intelligence Officer

Elizebeth Sajewski, PhD - IDASTP Trainee Alum - CDC

Epidemic Intelligence Officer

October 17, 2023

Lance Waller, PhD - IDASTP Steering Committee Member

Ghosts, Vampires, Zombies, and Bad Blood: What modeling imaginary diseases can tell us about disease dynamics and the undead

October 24, 2023

Rachel Pearson - IDASTP Trainee Alum - IMP

The effect of HIV infection on CD4 T cell immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Anirudda Desphande - IDASTP AOD Alum - EPI

Changes in Endemicity of Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) in the United States under Climate Change

November 7, 2023

Marc Lipsitch, PhD - Guest Speaker - Harvard University

Everything keeps changing: Lessons of COVID-19 for surveillance, epidemiology, and modeling

November 14, 2023

Sandra Mendiola - IDASTP AOD Alum - PBEE

Bugs on Bugs on Bugs: Impacts of symbiotic microbes on insect pathogen vectoring across scales