University of Michigan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Jennie Lavine

Jennie Lavine

  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact information

  • University of Michigan
    2056 Kraus Natural Science Building
    830 North University
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
  • Phone: (734) 615-7760
  • Fax: (734) 763-0544
  • Email: jslavine@umich.edu

Research interests

Study systems (collaborators in alphabetical order):

1) Estimating transmission and immune dynamics from epidemiological and within-host time series data.
Bordetella pertussis or whooping cough (Ottar Bjornstad, Birgitte Freisleben de Blasio, Aaron King, Jann Storsaeter)
Plasmodium chabaudi or mouse malaria (Andrea Graham, Aaron King, Andrew Read)

2) Ecological and evolutionary implications of the kinetics of immune memory.
Herpes virus latency (Rustom Antia)
Waning immunity and virally vectored, self-boosting vaccines (Stuart Dallas, Bryan Grenfell, Nim Pathy)
Cyclic pertussis dynamics (Viggo Andreasen, Ottar Bjornstad, Aaron King)

3) Population dynamics, epidemiology, and (re)emergence of the Bordetellae (B. pertussis, B. parapertussis and B. holmesii).
Re-emergence of pertussis in developed countries (Ottar Bjornstad, Helene Broutin, Eric Harvill, Aaron King)
Ecological interactions among the Bordetellae (Ottar Bjornstad)
Epidemiology of the emerging pathogen B. holmesii (Eric Harvill, Alexia Karanikas, Laura Weyrich, Xuqing Zhang)

Academic background

Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, mentor: Ottar Bjornstad

Honors and awards

RAPIDD post-doctoral fellow (2011-2014)
Alumni Association Dissertation Award (2010)

Mentor

Aaron King

UM Affiliation

  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • College of Literature, Science, and the Arts