We are excited to welcome C. Brandon Ogbunu, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Yale University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, to present on “The Panorama: Lessons for Epidemiology, Evolution, and a Science in Peril” for a Black History Month seminar sponsored jointly by Micro DEI, the Levy CIMAR, and the Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Dr. Ogbunu is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, population genetics, and social phenomena. His work utilizes a range of methods, from experimental evolution, to biochemistry, applied mathematics, and data science to better understand the underlying causes and consequences of disease across scales—from the biophysics of proteins involved in drug resistance to the social determinants driving epidemics at the population level. He has recently analyzed how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated racial inequities in incarceration (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05980-2) and how birds can be long-range vectors for infectious disease (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36792882/).