CCDD ID Epi Seminar Series

Talk title: Pathogen evolution in a vaccinated world

Presenter: Andrew F Read, Director of Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Evan Pugh University Professor of Biology and Entomology, and Eberly Professor of Biotechnology at Pennsylvania State University.

Andrew Read is an evolutionary microbiologist. Originally from New Zealand, Read received a D.Phil. in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Oxford. He held various fellowships at Oxford and then at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he became Chair of Natural History. He has taught ecology, evolution, microbiology, and statistics. He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, 30 book chapters and four edited volumes, and been elected to Fellowships from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Microbiology, The Royal Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007, he moved to the Centre for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, where he is Evan Pugh University Professor in Biology and Entomology, Eberly Professor in Biotechnology, and Director of Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

About the series: Each spring, the CCDD hosts a seminar series featuring experts presenting the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling. The ID Epi Seminar Series aims to bring in speakers from various disciplines within infectious disease epidemiology, broadly defined to include the population biology of pathogens and other allied topics. Seminars will be held on Thursdays at 1pm ET between February 10th and May 12th with the exception of March 17th. Recordings of presentations will be made publicly available unless indicated otherwise on the event page.