User:Eamon B. O'Dea

Contact Info

Eamon B. O'Dea

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• Georgetown University
• Department of Biology
• Washington, DC 20057

Postdoc Lab

• Bansal

PhD Labs

• Meyers
• Wilke

Education

• 2013, PhD, UT Austin, EEB
• 2008, BS, SUNY Geneseo, Biology

Research

Models and methods

• Parameter estimation for stochastic epidemic models
• Parameter estimation for dynamic contact networks
• Phylodynamics: methods for jointly analyzing phylogentic data of pathogens with data about population dynamics
• Degree correlations in complex networks
• Mutational robustness

Areas of application

• Infectious diseases of livestock
• Norovirus epidemiology
• HIV epidemiology
• Lethal mutagenesis

Papers

• E. B. O'Dea and C. O. Wilke (2011). Contact heterogeneity and phylodynamics: How contact networks shape parasite evolutionary trees. Interdiscip. Persp. Inf. Dis. 2011:238743. doi:10.1155/2011/238743
• E. B. O'Dea, T. E. Keller, and C. O. Wilke (2010). Does mutational robustness inhibit extinction by lethal mutagenesis in viral populations? PLoS Comp. Biol.

6:e1000811. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000811

Presentations

• E. B. O'Dea. Degree-correlated scale-free networks and epidemics. Undergraduate Biomathematics Day, April 2008, Niagara Falls, NY.

Posters

• E. B. O'Dea. Epidemic dynamics on randomized scale-free networks. The Joint Mathematics Meeting of the MAA and AMS, January 2008, San Diego.

Code

• Code used in my manuscript on fitting outbreak models to data from multiple outbreaks