Bren Case
Postdoctoral Associate (they/them)
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
College of Public Health
University of Georgia
Currently I am a postdoc in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics department at the University of Georgia, where I am working in the lab of Spencer Fox. My research involves combining mechanistic modeling and Bayesian statistics for the study of epidemiology and ecology. I’m particularly interested in using these tools for informing how data should be collected and for assessing control options from an information-theoretic perspective. Download my CV here.
I recently completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Vermont, co-advised by Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and Jean-Gabriel Young. Before coming to UVM, I obtained an MRes. degree in Natural Computation at the University of Birmingham, where I studied theoretical runtime analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms, and recieved a B.A. in Mathematics at Oberlin College.
My hobbies are running 🏃♀️, cooking 👩🍳, and eating 🍽. I love all things outdoors and spending time with my two dogs, Sammie and Dot.
news
| Aug 18, 2023 | A preprint for our paper, “Accurately summarizing an outbreak using epidemiological models takes time,” is now online. |
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| Jun 3, 2022 | Yesterday our work on adaptive control strategies to manage Chagas disease vectors was published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases! |
| May 10, 2022 | I am away from UVM this summer for an NIH T35 internship with the Big Data Health Science Center at the University of South Carolina! I will also be working with Melissa Nolan to analyze the results of an ongoing survey of South Carolina ticks. |
| Nov 12, 2021 | A preprint for our latest paper, “Spatial epidemiology and adaptive targeted sampling to manage the Chagas disease vector Triatoma dimidiata,” is now online! |
| Oct 31, 2021 | I’ve made a website! |