2018
June 29
Sarah eventually checks her text messages and discovers she has been awarded tenure!
June 1
Ed returns to the fold to model the development of immunity to flu. True to form, he immediately proposes provocatively simple models. It's good to have him back!
May 17
Congratulations to Frank on his successful PhD defense! We are happy to have him around another few months before he returns to medical school.
May 10
Marcos has been awarded a William Rainey Harper Fellowship, one of the University of Chicago's highest honors. Congratulations, Marcos!
April 27
Congratulations to Sylvia for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
2017
October 6
Phil Arevalo joins the lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome, Phil!
June 1
Rohan Dandavati and Graham Northrup join the Cobey lab. Welcome!
April 17
Kangchon Kim joins the lab as a postdoc! Welcome, Kangchon!
January 23
Scott Hensley and Sarah propose that many patterns in influenza immunology make sense in light of
original sin.
2016
December 15
Sylvia was awarded an NIH F30 grant. Congratulations, Sylvia!
May 12
Frank and Marcos both successfully defended their dissertation proposals this week and are now PhD candidates. Congratulations!
April 18
Sarah gives a seminar in the NYU Department of Biology.
January 6
Sarah and Ed's
new paper shows that causal inference using state-space reconstruction is unreliable in natural systems.
2015
December 10
Daniel Zinder joins the lab as a postdoc! Welcome, Daniel!
December 1
Colin Kyle joins the lab as a research programmer. Welcome, Colin!
November 27
Sarah was
interviewed on NPR about influenza's phylogeography and its coevolution with the immune system.
September 14
Rahul Subramanian begins his PhD in the lab!
July 20
Sarah teaches a 2.5-day course on "Pathogen evolution, selection, and immunity" with
Trevor Bedford at the Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) summer school in Seattle.
June 15
Lev Tsypin, a third year undergraduate, begins his summer rotation in the lab! He'll be working with Igor on fitting nonlinear dynamics.
May 14
Igor Vasiljevic joins the lab to investigate methods to fit stochastic, nonlinear dynamical models.
March 19
Sarah presents at the RAPIDD workshop "Modeling and predicting influenza phenotypes" at Cambridge University.
2014
December 1
Congratulations to Sylvia for successfully defending her thesis proposal!
November 29
Congratulations to Marcos, whose
paper has just been published in
Ecology Letters!
July 17
Our
new paper argues that pathogens evolve in a more complex immune environment than most models assume, and the differences matter.
2013
December 11
Sarah gives a talk at the J. Craig Venter Institute.
October 14
Sarah and
Jack Gilbert receive a $75,000 seed grant from the DoE to develop methods to infer pathogen interactions.
October 4
Sarah gives a talk at Swarthmore.
July 17
Frank Wen joins the lab to work on the phylogeography of influenza!