Research Interests / Specializations: Population modeling epidemiology and resource wildlife management Research Description: Students and postdoctoral students in my laboratory work on a broad range of theoretical and applied questions in population and biology with application to epidemiology and conservation biology. Current Projects At this time projects in my laboratory include: (i) Appropriate Complexity Modeling of Biological Systems, computational population biology and development of the Nova modeling building platform. (ii) Disease Ecology with a focus on zoonotic diseases. (iii) Movement Ecology: exploring the causes, patterns, mechanisms and consequences of organism movements.