by pilosofs | Oct 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
In this paper we present theory to identify signatures of immune selection using networks of genetic similarity that reveal non-neutral structures of var gene strains in an extensively sampled population in Bongo District (BD), Ghana. This work was done in...
by pilosofs | Sep 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dr. David Alonso is a Ramon y Cajal researcher in The Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies, in Spain. He is now visiting our lab as a Tinker Fellow of the University of Chicago and will give a course about stochastic processes in ecology. Welcome!
by pascualmm | May 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
A new paper just came out in PNAS with our collaborators in the University of Melbourne. This paper aims to discover how diverse malaria parasites are in children from an African village. Using DNA sequencing of var genes, we show that they are highly diverse such...
by pilosofs | Mar 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Shai for his perspective paper on Multilayer Networks in Ecology published in Nature Ecology and Evolution today. Ecological systems are complex and multifaceted. For example, species interact in diverse ways with multiple partners, and ecological...
by pilosofs | Mar 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Mauricio (and Andres Baeza now at ASU) for their paper also in Nature Ecology and Evolution on land-use change, economics and malaria in frontier regions, which was published today.
by pilosofs | Mar 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mercedes and Mauricio went to Delhi for a great meeting at the UCDelhi Center on Cities, Climate Forcing and Infectious Diseases. Thank you for all the support of the Center and to participants from India and other parts of the world.