Mike Boots

The paper develops a model to study how spatial structure and seasonal forcing together influence disease dynamics, finding complex behaviors like chaos and bistability under certain conditions.

This study shows that vector fidelity to initial blood meal hosts can sustain arbovirus transmission even when amplifying hosts are scarce.

The paper develops an eco-evolutionary model to show how host-host interactions influence pathogen virulence evolution, finding that competition increases virulence while mutualism decreases it.