Zi‐Ru Jiang

The paper develops an individual-based evolutionary framework to study how transmission conditions and management interventions influence virulence evolution in pine wilt disease, identifying management thresholds to suppress virulence.

The paper explains why ambrosia beetles maintain only one fungal symbiont by showing that competitive asymmetry, stochastic drift, and transmission bottlenecks lead to one-fungus specificity.

This paper models mosquito host-seeking behavior using a physics-guided simulation, showing that airflow and vortex effects can disrupt odor gradients and reduce host detection.