CarlBergstrom

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Carl Bergstrom is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. His lab’s research is concentrated in two areas: (1) Information acquisition and processing in biological systems, and (2) The ecology and evolution of infectious disease. Working in close collaboration with empirical and experimental researchers, Dr. Bergstrom’s group approaches these problem using mathematical models and computer simulations. Dr. Bergstrom’s recent disease evolution work has focused on the spread on antibiotic resistant bacteria in hospital settings, on the interaction between ecology and evolution in novel emerging pathogens such as SARS and avian influenza, and on the co-evolution of pathogens and immune systems. Dr. Bergstrom received his Ph.D. in theoretical population genetics from the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University. After a two-year postdoc in the Department of Biology at Emory University, Dr. Bergstrom joined the faculty in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington in 2001.