People | The Nunn Lab

Current Lab Members

Charles Nunn is the Principal Investigator
Research Interests: Disease ecology, evolutionary medicine, and primate behavior and ecology.

Michelle Pender is a Project Manager
Research interests: Global health

Mark Janko is a Lecturer in Global Health and postdoc collaborator in the Nunn Lab.
Research Interests: Ecology, statistics and population health geography.

Johnny Uelmen is the Assistant Director of TriCEM
Research Interests: Epidemiology, ecology, entomology, geography (and GIS), environmental studies, and biology.

Varun Goel is the lead Postdoctoral Researcher on Nunn’s NSF PIPP proposal, and based at UNC
Research Interests: Spatial epidemiology and spatial statistics.

Alma Solis is a Ph.D. student in Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Interests: infectious disease ecology, vector-borne disease, genetics, One Health, health disparities, education and outreach.

Camille DeSisto is a Ph.D. student in Ecology

Research interests: Forest ecology, ecological networks, plant-animal interactions, conservation.

Tyler Barrett is a Ph.D. student in Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Interests: Evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary medicine, market integration, and infectious disease.

Lev Kolinski is a Ph.D. student in Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Interests: human biology, evolutionary medicine, disease ecology, and market integration

Melody is a PhD student in Ecology.

Research interests: zoonotic disease, infectious disease epidemiology, disease ecology, emerging infectious diseases, disease surveillance, humanitarian health