Collaborating Faculty
Faculty Departments
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
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- Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences
- Forestry
- Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group
- Wildlife Biology
- Biological Sciences
- Organismal Biology and Ecology
- Integrated Microbiology and Biochemistry
- Microbial Ecology
- Communication Studies
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- Institute of Medicine and Humanities
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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.
Evolution, population and behavioral genetics of plants and animals
Inverse problems and imaging processing.
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.
Computational mathematics, numerical optimization, inverse/ill-posed problemsComputational mathematics, numerical optimization, inverse/ill-posed problems
Quant. ecology, metapopulation dynamics, quant. methods for decision-making
Quant. ecology, metapopulation dynamics, quant. methods for decision-making
Physiological evolution, population genetics, behavioral genetics of insects
Physiological evolution, population genetics, behavioral genetics of insec
Plant evolutionary genetics, speciation and adaptation, mating system evolution
Role of reservoir hosts in plague, habitat choice, effects of land use
Spatial statistics, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to model pathogen spread
Molecular parasitology, aquatic ecology of whirling disease
Molecular microbial ecology, microbial community ecology & animal disease
Habitat choice, GIS/LANDSAT imagery defining nonrandom species distribution
Computer simulation & modeling, data visualization, finite element method
Bacterial growth modeling, perturbation theory, modeling non-linear phenomena
Bacterial growth modeling, perturbation theory, modeling non-linear phenomena
Evolution, population genetics, behavioral genetics of insects
Organizational communication, technology & culture, identification
Role of invasive plants on rodent/hantavirus ecology, invasive plant ecology
Evolution, population genetics, behavioral genetics using models and genetic tools
Microbial evolution and population genetics
Habitat choice and effects of land use
