contact information

Daniel J. Becker
PhD Student
Odum School of Ecology
University of Georgia

physical address
Odum School of Ecology
140 E. Green Street
Athens, GA 30602-2202

email
dbecker@uga.edu

about me

I am a PhD student at the University of Georgia, where I am advised by Dr. Sonia Altizer in the Odum School of Ecology. I received my BA from Bard College, where I studied anthropology and global health and focused on the social and ecological dimensions of infectious diseases. I then went on to hold research positions in environmental health, urban ecology, wildlife epidemiology, and foraging ecology.

research interests

I am broadly interested in infectious disease ecology, environmental change, animal behavior, and ecological immunology. My research focuses on how human-induced changes to wildlife food resources affect foraging behavior and physiology in ways that influence infectious diseases dynamics. To this end, I use a combination of meta-analysis, observational field studies, dietary and physiological analyses, and mathematical modeling to explore how resource shifts affect infectious disease outcomes in wildlife and how this influences risk of transmission to humans.  

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