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Tamika Lunn, Graduate Student, Australia

Tamika is a PhD student at Griffith University, Australia, and is broadly interested in disease and quantitative ecology. For her dissertation, Tamika will investigate spatio-temporal patterns of Hendra virus in reservoir populations of flying foxes across multiple spatial scales. Specifically, she will be using fieldwork and model-based approaches to investigate the influence of gestation and waning maternal antibodies on individual susceptibility and viral shedding, as well as spatial modeling to examine the influence of roost structure fluctuation on viral transmission dynamics. Tamika will combine this with broad landscape-scale modelling of Hendra prevalence to examine their roles in viral maintenance within populations.