Katia Koelle BS, PhD

Dr. Koelle is currently Associate Professor at Duke University. She has received BS, PhD degree from Stanford University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She ha sreceived Recipient of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 award, Recipient of Duke Univ.’s Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, Recipient of the Volterra Award for best oral presentation, Recipient of the Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Recipient of the E.C. Pielou Award for best oral presentation.

Her publications are as follows:
Viral phylodynamics, 2013 Volz, E.M., Koelle, K., Bedford, T., PLoS Computational Biology. (2013) 9 vol. (3); pp. e1002947.
The evolutionary dynamics of receptor binding avidity in influenza A: a mathematical model for a new antigenic drift hypothesis, , 2013 Yuan, H., Koelle, K., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.. 368 vol. (1614); pp. 20120204.
Viral substitution rate variation can arise from the interplay between within-host and epidemiological dynamicssubstitution rates, 2013 Scholle, S.O., Ypma, R., Lloyd, A.L., Koelle, K., The American Naturalist. (2013) 182 vol. (4); pp. 494-513.
Navigating the devious course of evolution: the importance of mechanistic models for identifying eco-evolutionary dynamics in nature, , 2013 Luo, S. and K. Koelle, The American Naturalist. 181 vol. (S58-S75).
Coalescent entanglement: conditional dependence of the times-to-common-ancestry of mutually exclusive pairs of individuals, , 2013 Wu, S., Koelle, K., and A. Rodrigo, Journal of Heredity. 104 vol. (1); pp. 86-91.
Rates of coalescence for epidemiological models at equilibirum, 2012 K. Koelle, D.A. Rasmussen, Journal of the Royal Society, Interface. (2012) 9 vol. (70); pp. 997-1007.
Impact of cross-protective vaccines on epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of influenza, 2012 N. Arinaminpathy, O. Ratmann, K. Koelle, S.L. Epstein, G.E. Prince, C. Viboud, M. Miller, B. Grenfell, PNAS. (2012) 109 vol. (8); pp. 3173-3177.