Megan Greischar lab

Parasite life history strategies within the host, especially the timing of replication and transmission, influence disease severity and spread. I study how subtle differences in ecology within and outside the host can generate dramatic differences in parasite strategies. My research program uses two major approaches:

1. Building ecologically-detailed models to ask when and why particular strategies would be favored
2. Developing novel statistical approaches to better characterize parasite traits from existing data