Research

Current Grants

  • Principal Investigator, NIH 1R01AI136035-01, “Spatial Eco-epidemiology of Tick-Borne Rickettsial Pathogens”, $2,455,904, 8/18/17-7/31/22
  • Principal Investigator, USDA, “Adapting TickBot Technology to Support Efforts by Appropriated Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Research Project”, $20,000, 4/1/16-3/31/17
  • Principal Investigator, CDC, “LYMESIM Software and Support Services”, $135,000, 9/6/16-9/5/17.
  • Co-investigator (PI: Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond), Jeffress Grant, Quantitative genomic analysis of black-legged tick populations in VA to identify processes associated with increased Lyme disease incidence, $23,420, 6/30/17-6/29/18.

Completed Grants

  1. Principal Investigator, University of KwaZulu-Natal, “Building Mathematical Biology at UKZN”, $26,648, 5/1/2015-8/31/2015
  2. Principal Investigator, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., “Tidewater Spotted Fever Surveillance in the Hampton Roads Region”, $90,000, 8/4/2011-5/31/2015
  3. Principal Investigator, NSF DBI-1061935, RCN UBE-Incubator: Interdisciplinary Communication Laboratory for Undergraduate Biology (iCLUB), $50,000, 5/1/11-9/30/2013
  4. Principal Investigator, Math Ecology LLC Subaward, Dengue Fever Modeling and Analysis, $13,475, 10/1/2012-9/30/2013
  5. Principal Investigator, James Squire, Tick Robot Experimental Design, $4000, 6/1/2013-5/31/2014
  6. Principal Investigator, NIH K25 Award KAI067791A, Spatially-explicit mathematical model of human monocytic ehrlichiosis, 06/01/07 – 05/31/12, $452,223
  7. Investigator, NSF DMS-0813563/DMS-0813691, “RUI: Collaborative Research: Optimal Control Investigator for Cholera Outbreaks” K. R. Fister (PI), $200,000, 09/01/08-08/31/12
  8. Consultant, Old Dominion University Office of Research, “Do Marine Aggregates Facilitate Gene Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance in Nature?” F. Dobbs (PI), 01/01/09-06/30/10, $81,782
  9. Co-Principal Investigator, Old Dominion University Office of Research, “Modeling Eco-Epidemiology of Chronic Disease in Wild Finfish” D. Gauthier (PI), $74,250. 01/01/10-06/30/10.
  10. Principal Investigator, DHS through Georgetown University, “Rift Valley fever modeling and analysis” Hartley (PI), $80,000, 04/01/10-09/30/10.
  11. Principal Investigator, DHS Award FAZD Center, Impact of Climate on the Introduction of a Zoonotic Disease in the United States: A Focus on Rift Valley Fever, 07/01/10-06/30/11, $91,000
  12. Co-Investigator, Johns Hopkins University/CDC, T. Perl (PI), Bring Value Through BioSense – a Performance Based Approach, $55,000, 10/01/06-09/30/09
  13. Principal Investigator, Baltimore VA Research and Education Foundation, Disease-Course Surveillance, $15,000, 02/01/08-12/31/08
  14. Principal Investigator, Old Dominion University Office of Research & Baltimore Research and Education Foundation, Investigation of Instruction and Learning in a Virtual Intensive Care Unit, $37,300, 06/06/08 – 12/31/08
  15. Co-Investigator, Georgetown University Argus Project, D. M. Hartley (PI), $100,000, 09/01/06-05/31/07
  16. Co-Investigator, CDC, A. Harris (PI), New Nosocomial Interventions to Decrease Antimicrobial Resistance $573,446, 9/30/06 – 05/31/07
  17. Co-Investigator, Office of Homeland Security, D. M. Hartley (PI), Modeling of Rift Valley Fever for Agricultural Bioterrorism Defense, $390,010, 05/01/04-04/30/07