M-EID UM Faculty
Montana - Ecology of Infectious Disease (M-EID) faculty participants at The University of Montana span a breadth of programs and disciplines:
- Mathematical Sciences
- Applied Mathematics
- Statistics
- Joint Mathematics/Computer Science program
- Computer Science
- Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences
- Biological Sciences
- Communication Studies
- Institute of Medicine and Humanities
This breadth is essential since full understanding of the myriad factors inherent in infectious disease systems requires efforts that embrace environmental, behavioral, social, and evolutionary aspects of both pathogenic microorganisms and eukaryotic hosts. Further, the integration of data sets from organisms and environments interacting at widely disparate spatial and temporal scales provides fertile ground for innovation in mathematics and computer science, making these disciplines essential to comprehensive investigation of the ecology of infectious disease.
Montana - Ecology of Infectious Disease (M-EID) PI's are noted in italics.
Name |
Research Interests |
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| Fred Allendorf | Evolution, population and behavioral genetics of plants and animals | |
| Creagh Breuner | My research focuses on the behavioral and physiological changes that occur in response to unpredictable events (stressors), the hormonal and cellular mechanisms that underlie these changes, and the ecological repercussions of these changes for animals in their natural environment. | |
| John Bardsley | Computational mathematics, numerical optimization, inverse/ill-posed problemsComputational mathematics, numerical optimization, inverse/ill-posed problems | |
| Ragan Callaway | Quant. ecology, metapopulation dynamics, quant. methods for decision-making | |
| Elizabeth Crone | Quant. ecology, metapopulation dynamics, quant. methods for decision-making | |
| Douglas Emlen | Physiological evolution, population genetics, behavioral genetics of insects | |
| Vanessa Ezenwa | Pathogen-associated behavioral changes, behavioral and nutritional ecology | |
| Lila Fishman | Plant evolutionary genetics, speciation and adaptation, mating system evolution | |
| Kerry Foresman |
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| Jonathan Graham | Spatial statistics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to model pathogen spread | |
| Willard Granath | Molecular parasitology, aquatic ecology of whirling disease | |
| William Holben | Molecular microbial ecology, microbial community ecology & animal disease | |
| Richard Hutto | Habitat choice, GIS/LANDSAT imagery defining nonrandom species distribution | |
| Jesse Johnson | Computer simulation & modeling, data visualization, finite element method | |
| Leonid Kalachev | Bacterial growth modeling, perturbation theory, modeling non-linear phenomena | |
| Penny Kukuk | Evolution, population genetics, behavioral genetics of insects | |
| Greg Larson | Organizational communication, technology & culture, identification | |
| John Maron | Role of invasive plants on rodent/hantavirus ecology, invasive plant ecology | |
| Scott Mills | Evolution, population genetics, behavioral genetics using models and genetic tools | |
| Scott Miller | Microbial evolution and population genetics | |
| David Naugle | Habitat choice and effects of land use | |
| David Opitz | Artificial intelligence, neural networks, genetic algorithms, ensemble methods | |
| David Patterson | Land mapping using environmental & remote data, scalar relationships | |
| Daniel Pletscher | Dir. WBIO Program Predator/prey relationships WRT ecol. & social param. | |
| Mary Poss | Viral evolution & ecology, retroviral markers of host population dynamics | |
| Roland Redmond | Dir. Wildlife Spatial Anal. Lab. Landscape-scale behav. ecology, remote sensing | |
| Frank Rosenzweig | Microbial physiology & population diversity, evolution and adaption | |
| Steven Running | Dir. Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Grp. remote sensing WRT hantavirus | |
| Diana Six | Dir. UMt Mentoring Prog. for Women in the Sciences Insect-fungus symbioses | |
| Brian Steele | Land mapping, linear & mixed models, ecological applic. of statistics | |
| Herbert Swick | Dir. Inst. for Medicine and Humanities society and disease, ethics seminar | |
| Alden Wright | Evol. Pop. dynamics, genetic algorithms, artificial life, approx. string matching | |
| Changwon Yoo | Bioinformatics, causal Bayesian analysis, machine learning, probabilistic analysis |
