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DIRECTORY
Rachel Gicquelais, MPHPhD Candidate, Epidemiology
BWF PUP program: University of Michigan "Integrated Training in Microbial Systems"
Research interests: I'm interested in substance use disorder and infectious disease epidemiology, hepatitis C transmission, public health practice, and the gut microbiota. (read more)
Email: rgic@umich.edu
Phone: (410) 212-0787(c)
Kristine Giffin, PhDCurriculum Director, Quantitative Biomedical Sciences
BWF PUP program: Dartmouth College "Big data in the life sciences and training program"
Research interests: I am the current Curriculum Director for the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Program (QBS) at Dartmouth College and also help manage the Big Data in the Life Sciences Training Program, the BWF PUP program at Dartmouth. (read more)
Email: kristine.a.giffin@dartmouth.edu
Phone: (603)653-9163(o), (508)259-9643(c)
Aubree Gordon, MPH, PhDAssistant Professor of Epidemiology
BWF PUP program: University of Michigan "Integrated Training in Microbial Systems"
Research interests: My research interests are the areas of infectious disease epidemiology and global health. My current research focuses on the epidemiologic features and transmission of influenza and RSV in Nicaragua. Data on influenza in the tropics is fairly scarce, and even basic issues such as the seasonality of influenza in the tropics has not been defined. (read more)
Email: gordonal@umich.edu
Crystal GrantPhD Candidate, Human Genetics
BWF PUP program: Emory University "Human health: molecules to mankind (M2M)"
Research interests: Epigenetic changes associated with age in humans.
Email: crystal.grant@emory.edu
Phone: (607)227-3480 (c)
Louis Gross, PhD Keynote SpeakerDistinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Affiliation: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
Research Interests: I apply mathematical and computational methods to an array of problems in biology, typically collaborating with researchers with considerable observational experience in the areas being studies. (read more)
Email address -- gross@NIMBioS.org
Phone: (865)974-4295 (o), (865)406-4388 (c)
BWF PUP program: University of Michigan "Integrated Training in Microbial Systems"
This meeting is hosted by the Integrated Training in Microbial Systems (ITiMS) program at the University of Michigan and is sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.