Katharina V. Koelle, Associate Professor  

Katharina V. Koelle

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 disease dynamics of pathogens. My interests include developing models to improve our understanding of how immune escape and other viral phenotypes impact the ecological dynamics of RNA viruses, and, in turn, how these ecological dynamics create selection pressures on viral pathogens. Additional interests include developing within-host models of viral dynamics and evolution and fitting these models to empirical data. Current research projects focus primarily on influenza and dengue.

Education:
BS, Stanford University, 1997

Office Location: 130 Science Drive, Room 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: katia.koelle@duke.edu
Web Page: http://sites.duke.edu/koelle/

Specialties:
Ecology and Population Biology
Evolution

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

Research Description: 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 disease dynamics of pathogens. My interests include the effect of climate on disease dynamics and the role that immune escape plays in the ecological dynamics of RNA viruses. Current projects focus on influenza, dengue, and norovirus.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Sobel Leonard, A; Weissman, DB; Greenbaum, B; Ghedin, E; Koelle, K, Transmission Bottleneck Size Estimation from Pathogen Deep-Sequencing Data, with an Application to Human Influenza A Virus, edited by Lyles, DS, Journal of virology, vol. 91 no. 14 (July, 2017), pp. e00171-17-e00171-17 [doi] .
  2. Sobel Leonard, A; McClain, MT; Smith, GJD; Wentworth, DE; Halpin, RA; Lin, X; Ransier, A; Stockwell, TB; Das, SR; Gilbert, AS; Lambkin-Williams, R; Ginsburg, GS; Woods, CW; Koelle, K; Illingworth, CJR, The effective rate of influenza reassortment is limited during human infection., PLoS pathogens, vol. 13 no. 2 (February, 2017), pp. e1006203 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Sobel Leonard, A; McClain, MT; Smith, GJD; Wentworth, DE; Halpin, RA; Lin, X; Ransier, A; Stockwell, TB; Das, SR; Gilbert, AS; Lambkin-Williams, R; Ginsburg, GS; Woods, CW; Koelle, K, Deep Sequencing of Influenza A Virus from a Human Challenge Study Reveals a Selective Bottleneck and Only Limited Intrahost Genetic Diversification., Journal of virology, vol. 90 no. 24 (December, 2016), pp. 11247-11258 [doi]  [abs].
  4. Flasche, S; Jit, M; Rodríguez-Barraquer, I; Coudeville, L; Recker, M; Koelle, K; Milne, G; Hladish, TJ; Perkins, TA; Cummings, DAT; Dorigatti, I; Laydon, DJ; España, G; Kelso, J; Longini, I; Lourenco, J; Pearson, CAB; Reiner, RC; Mier-Y-Terán-Romero, L; Vannice, K; Ferguson, N, The Long-Term Safety, Public Health Impact, and Cost-Effectiveness of Routine Vaccination with a Recombinant, Live-Attenuated Dengue Vaccine (Dengvaxia): A Model Comparison Study., edited by von Seidlein, L, PLoS medicine, vol. 13 no. 11 (November, 2016), pp. e1002181 [doi]  [abs].
  5. Ben-Shachar, R; Schmidler, S; Koelle, K, Drivers of Inter-individual Variation in Dengue Viral Load Dynamics., edited by Ferguson, NM, PLoS computational biology, vol. 12 no. 11 (November, 2016), pp. e1005194 [doi]  [abs].

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