Dr. Dustin Brisson has been promoted to Associate Professor of Biology with tenure. Dustin studies the ecology and evolutionary biology of disease-causing organisms. Much of his current work focuses on the bacterium that causes Lyme disease Borrelia burgdorferi. …
Individual-level heterogeneity often drives ecological and evolutionary dynamics. The effects of individual variation are especially clear in host-parasite interactions, and all the more so during a global pandemic: hosts exhibit remarkable heterogeneity in the strength, speed…
