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Michael Cummings, Associate Professor
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biomolecular Sciences Building #296
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-3360
USA
301.405.9903 voice
301.314.1341 facsimile
mike@umiacs.umd.edu
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Adam Bazinet, Faculty Research Assistant and Graduate Student
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
3122 Biomolecular Sciences Building #296
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-3360
USA
301.405.7408 office
pknut777@umiacs.umd.edu
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Daniel Ayres, Graduate Student
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
3122 Biomolecular Sciences Building #296
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-3360
USA
301.405.7408 office
ayres@umiacs.umd.edu
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Rebecca Just, Graduate Student
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
3122 Biomolecular Sciences Building #296
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-3360
USA
rsjust@umiacs.umd.edu
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 | Joanna Grand, NSF Post Doctoral Fellow in Biological Informatics
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Organismic and Evolutionary Biology May 2004
Master of Environmental Studies, Yale University Conservation Biology Science May 1995
B.A. Vassar College Psychology May 1990
The goal of Joanna's research is to predict the consequences of using reserve selection algorithms to select nature reserves when only poor biological data are available. Reserve selection algorithms represent a significant improvement over ad-hoc reserve selection methods; however, they are extremely data-intensive. Many regions most in need of conservation effort lack the economic resources necessary to obtain the extensive data these algorithms require. In collaboration with Dr. Maile C. Neel (University of Maryland) and Dr. Taylor Ricketts (World Wildlife Fund) she will evaluate the effects of poor data on species representation in reserves by subsampling well-known species distributions to reflect realistic sampling in data-poor areas.
Her previous research includes demographic modeling to predict the effects of a combination of conservation strategies on threatened loggerhead sea turtle populations; multi-scaled variance partitioning of species-environment relationships in threatened bird and moth communities; using landscape associations to predict the distribution of bird and moth rarity hotspots in a pine barrens community to inform conservation priority setting; and comparing fine and coarse-filter conservation prioritization methods.
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 | Shannon L. Takala, Assistant Professor
Center for Vaccine Development
University of Maryland School of Medicine
685 West Baltimore Street, HSFI-480
Baltimore, MD 21201
USA
410.706.5461 office
stakala@medicine.umaryland.edu
My primary research interests include molecular epidemiology, evolutionary biology, and population genetics/genomics applied toward understanding the evolution of the malaria parasite in response to the human immune system and interventions such as drugs and vaccines. Specific topics of interest include the effect of natural and intervention-induced selection on Plasmodium genetic diversity, associations between parasite and host genetics and disease, and emergence and spread of resistance to antimalarial drugs and vaccines.
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