We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!! Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).

Hope you can join us for three full days (June 2-4th, 2026) of great science in a beautiful setting!

We recently studied how avian malaria parasites are distributed globally, with bird migration, host community similarity, & environmental affinity all playing a role. Important because some lineages are more harmful than others and distributions susceptible to global change doi.org/10.1111/1749...

The Park lab is recruiting a disease ecology modeling student to the PhD Ecology program at UGA for Fall 2026 to join an NIH funded, multi-institution project studying bat-virus dynamics in Kenya and Belize (reporter.nih.gov/project-deta...).

Really enjoyed linking parasite phylogenetic specialism to metrics of adaptation. Principal hosts of specialists have higher population density, prevalence & intensity. Auxiliary quality hosts of specialists are relatives, whereas for generalists they overlap in space & diet doi.org/10.1098/rspb...