At the University of Michigan. I have devoted myself to asking fundamental questions in new ways and to devising and disseminating novel methods by which existing data can answer these questions. Most notably, our work has opened up new vistas in the ecology and evolution of infectious disease, but has had impacts on other areas of ecology and evolutionary biology as well.

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Disease Evolution, Ecology, and Epidemiology. I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in disease ecology and evolution. At the University of Stirling.

Mathematics seems to endow one with a new sense. Like most mathematicians, he takes the hopeful biologist to the edge of the pond, points out that a good swim will help his work, and then pushes him in and leaves him to drown. Charles Elton, in reference to a work by Alfred Lotka. This course introduces students to the use of mathematics to study biological phenomena.