Ed Baskerville
Senior Research Programmer
Physical Address:
San Francisco, usually
Mailing Address:
114 Zoology Building
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Ed is now an alumna of the Cobey lab. Below is an archived description.
I am a researcher with a general interest in modeling and inference for complex ecological systems and specific expertise in software engineering and Bayesian methods. I am currently investigating how influenza exposure history affects protection and immune response in the Nicaraguan Pediatric Influenza Cohort Study (NPICS), a longitudinal study being conducted by Dr. Aubree Gordon (U. Michigan SPH) in Managua. In the past I have been fortunate to to contribute to a variety of infectious disease projects involving computational models and statistical inference.
Beyond biology, I like to daydream about how better programming representations and visual software development tools can help scientists think more creatively and expressively, an interest I trace to a childhood obsession with Apple's HyperCard. More concretely, I am currently working on a not-very-secret project to enable a variety of communication and collaboration tools to operate without centralized infrastructure or ad revenue.
I did a BSE in Computer Science (Minor in Mathematics) in 2004 at the University of Michigan. I later returned to Michigan to work on the structure and dynamics of ecological networks with Mercedes Pascual, completing a Ph.D in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Scientific Computing in 2013.