I am honored to have been appointed Drexel Professor of Mathematics by my College, in recognition of research accomplishments and contributions to graduate education and training. This would not have been possible without contributions and encouragement from so many wonderful collaborators, postdocs, students, mentors and colleagues over the years, or without the support of the broader NC State biomath family. Thank you all!

Our group makes an appearance at BugFest Raleigh 2016! Graduate students Brandon Hollingsworth and Michael Vella, together with Alun Lloyd, helped man the Mosquitoes exhibit run by Michael Reiskind‘s group.

Brandon helping with the Mosquito Challenge!

Visit to Emory to work with Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec and to give a seminar to the PBEE program.

New paper by Andy Monaghan, discussing the spatiotemporal distribution of Aedes aegypti in the continental US.

Kenichi Okamoto’s paper on combined control strategies against vector-borne infections appears in PLoS Computational Biology.

A pair of papers with lead authors Dan Villeneuve (EPA, Duluth, MN) and my former student Miyuki Breen were acknowledged with a 2015 Scientific and Technological Achievement Award (Level III) from the Environmental Protection Agency. Congratulations all around!

(1) Villeneuve, D. et al., Developing Predictive Approaches to Characterize Adaptive Responses of the Reproductive Endocrine Axis to Aromatase Inhibition: I. Data Generation in a Small Fish Model. Toxicological Sciences, 133(2):225-233 (2013)

(2) Breen, M. et al., Developing Predictive Approaches to Characterize Adaptive Responses of the Reproductive Endocrine Axis to Aromatase Inhibition: II. Computational Modeling. Toxicological Sciences, 133(2):234-247 (2013)

In South Africa for the UNISA/UP Workshop on Mathematical Epidemiology. Giving three talks: Stochastic Models, Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty in Model Predictions.

A day trip to the 2015 Undergraduate Capstone Conference at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University.

Tim Antonelli successfully defends his PhD dissertation on Wolbachia and Aedes aegypti dynamics. Tim now heads for a faculty position at Worcester State University.

Keynote talk on “Modeling Combined Dengue Control Strategies” at the Biomath 2015 conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa.