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.

Annual meeting of the P01 group in Iquitos, Peru

Giving a talk in minisymposium on Advances in Modeling Virus Dynamics, organized by Jessica Conway, at SIAM DS 15. Always good to be at Snowbird!

NIH P01 project meeting at Emory (April 2nd/3rd) with Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, Uriel Kitron, Lance Waller and Alex Perkins.

Two open postdoc positions. See Epidemiological Modeler and Population Genetics Modeler.

Update: both positions are now filled.

Review paper from the 2013 and 2014 Newton Institute Infectious Disease Dynamics Workshop appears in Science. Heesterbeek et al. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4339