Sarah Cobey
Principal Investigator • cobey@uchicago.eduSarah is an associate professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago.
Phil Arevalo
Postdoctoral Researcher • parevalo@uchicago.eduPhil is building models that integrate epidemiological and molecular data to infer how infection history, vaccination, and influenza epitope diversity influence protection against influenza infection.
Katie Gostic
Postdoctoral Researcher • kgostic@uchicago.eduKatie studies the epidemiological impacts of childhood immune imprinting, and the within-host dynamics that allow biases in immune memory to develop and persist. She also aims to understand why our immune system isn’t better at deploying broadly protective antibodies against multi-strain pathogens.
Lauren McGough
Postdoctoral Researcher • mcgough@uchicago.eduLauren studies how the mechanisms and dynamics of affinity maturation in the adaptive immune system affect the diversity of individuals' antibody repertoires.
Spencer Carran
Research Scientist • spencercarran@gmail.comSpencer studies the interplay between policy and disease dynamics. He is working to understand factors that can bias estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness.
Diana Vera Cruz
Research Scientist • dveracruz@uchicago.eduDiana studied viral evolution across scales and how it is impacted by immune selection during her Ph.D. at Duke University. She is interested in the impact of immune history, particularly antibody response, on vaccine efficacy and influenza reinfection driven by antigenic drift.
Marcos Vieira
PhD Student • mvieira@uchicago.eduMarcos moved to the University of Chicago for his PhD studies after completing his Master's in Ecology & Evolution (Universidade Federal de Goiás) and his BS (Universidade Federal do Ceará) in Biology in Brazil. He's currently interested in the coevolutionary dynamics of pathogens and antibody repertoires, and his background interests include ecological networks and a bit of evolutionary behavioral ecology.
Elena Whitney
Research Assistant • elenawhitney@uchicago.eduElena is a third-year undergraduate student at UChicago studying Biology with a specialization in quantitative biology. She is particularly interested in the modeling of infectious diseases and is planning to pursue an MD/PhD in this field upon graduation.