Short dispatches considering vector-borne viral disease problems in context. Maintained by Isabel Ott. Particular interests include: orthobunyaviruses, getting lost in the stacks, the long coevolutionary dance of vector-virus interactions, and epistemology.
Isabel Ott (she/her) is a second-year Ph.D. student in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Genetics & Molecular Biology curriculum. She is a member of Dr. Daniel Matute’s lab, where she studies applied population genetics of dipteran disease vectors, particularly Aedes triseriatus, the primary vector of La Crosse orthobunyavirus. Prior to graduate school, she spent eight years studying a wide variety of virus evolution and emergence problems as an undergraduate researcher at the University of Georgia and a technician at Yale University.
A complete list of her scholarly publications is available here.