Katia Koelle
Assistant Professor

919-660-9457

258 Biological Sciences Building

Research Interests: Theoretical biology; ecology and evolution of infectious diseases

My research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases. I use a combination of mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the processes driving the outbreak dynamics of pathogens. These processes include extrinsic factors, such as climate variability, and intrinsic factors, such as immune escape. Current projects focus on rapidly-evolving viral pathogens, including influenza and dengue.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. M. Pascual, B. Cazelles, M. Bouma, L. Chaves, K. Koelle, Shifting patterns: malaria dynamics and rainfall variability in an African highland, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Biological Sciences, vol. 275 (2008), pp. 123-132 .
2. Y. Nagao, K. Koelle, Decreases in dengue transmission may act to increase the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105 no. 6 (2008), pp. 2238-2243 .
3. B. Finkelman, C. Viboud, K. Koelle, M. Ferrari, N. Bharti, B. Grenfell, Global Patterns in Seasonal Activity of Influenza A/H3N2, A/H1N1, and B from 1997 to 2005: Viral Coexistence and Latitudinal Gradients, PLoS One, vol. 2 no. 12 (2007), pp. e1296 .
4. K. Koelle, S. Cobey, B. Grenfell, M. Pascual, Epochal evolution shapes the phylodynamics of interpandemic influenza A (H3N2) in humans, Science, vol. 314 (2006), pp. 1898-1903 .
5. K. Koelle, M. Pascual, M. Yunus, Serotype cycles in cholera dynamics, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Biological Sciences, vol. 273 (2006), pp. 2879-2886 .