Amber J. Brace

I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the Martin Lab at the University of South Florida broadly interested in the cost of immunity and drivers of variation in immune function within and among populations. My current research focuses on variation in the cost of immunity and how it may drive disease dynamics, especially in ecosystems affected by introduced species. There is a large amount of variation in pathogen defense strategies within and among populations, and it is likely driven by multiple factors. To fully understand how pathogens move through ecosystems and affect host health, we need to understand factors that affect pathogen characteristics, such as variations in host immune defense and the influencing factors of those variations.

July 2014