Pej received a collegiate chair by the College of Literature, Sciences and the Arts at the University of Michigan. The chair will be named after Pearl L. Kendrick, in recognition of her groundbreaking work on pertussis epidemiology and vaccine development.

A lab paper on the latitudinal gradients in seasonal births and their consequences for infectious disease dynamics was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

July: We’re pleased to welcome Felicia Magpantay and Matthieu Domenech, who will be joining the lab as postdoctoral research fellows to work on the NIH-funded project on pertussis. Felicia will be starting in August and Matthieu in September.

June: The Rohani lab was sad to wave goodbye to two long-term members this summer. Sourya Shrestha has taken up a position at Johns Hopkins to study TB and Julie Blackwood has left for a faculty post at Williams College. We wish them both the best of luck in their new endeavours!

January: The Institute of Medicine published its report titles “The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety“.  Pej was a member of the panel that wrote the report.  See UM news service.

September: Vicki’s paper, published in Biology Letters, concerning the potential impacts of climate change on avian influenza transmission in Delaware Bay has generated much media interest. See UM news service and Science Daily.

June: Daniel Streicker’s paper on the effects of culling on rabies in Peruvian vampire bats is published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – Biological Sciences, receiving considerable press attention (UM news service press release, Coverage in Science, Nature and BBC).

June: We are pleased to welcome Doug Jackson to the lab, as a postdoctoral fellow. He will be joining us in August.

May: Pej is invited to join the editorial board of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London – Biological Sciences.

April: Pej and Aaron receive 5 year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study pertussis (UM news service press release) .

January: The lab welcomes Maria Riolo, who will be working towards her PhD under the joint supervision of Pej and Mark Hunter.

November: Many congratulations to Daniel Streicker, who defended his PhD dissertation on the 21st! He will now continue his work on vampire bat rabies in Peru as a postdoc on his NSF grant.

August: The lab welcomes Liz Levin, who has enrolled into the PhD program in Epidemiology, as part of the Interdisciplinary Program in Infectious Diseases. She will be working on the transmission biology and genomics of pertussis.

August: We welcome Jijun Zhao to the lab. Jijun will be working on Avian Influenza transmission in the US.

July: The paper by Roche et al. (2011; BMC Bioinformatics) has been awarded the designation “Highly Accessed” due to its almost 2300 downloads in the past three months.

January: We welcome Eli Goldwyn to the lab. Eli will be working on pertussis outbreaks in the US.