The original post: /r/askscience by /u/AskScienceModerator on 2024-09-30 11:00:07.

Original Title: AskScience AMA Series: I am a quantitative biologist at the University of Maryland investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet. I have a new book coming out on epidemic modeling and pandemic prevention - ask me your questions!

Hi Reddit! I am a quantitative biologist here to answer your questions about epidemic modeling, pandemic prevention and quantitative biosciences more generally.

Joshua Weitz is a biology professor at the University of Maryland and holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics. Previously, he held the Tom and Marie Patton Chair at Georgia Tech where he founded the graduate program in quantitative biosciences. Joshua received his Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 2003 and did postdoctoral training in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton from 2003 to 2006.

Joshua directs an interdisciplinary group focusing on understanding how viruses transform the fate of cells, populations and ecosystems and is the author of the textbook “Quantitative Biosciences: Dynamics across Cells, Organisms, and Populations.” He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology and is a Simons Foundation Investigator in Theoretical Physics of Living Systems. At the University of Maryland, Joshua holds affiliate appointments in the Department of Physics and the Institute for Advanced Computing and is a faculty member of the University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing.

I will be joined by two scientists in the Quantitative Viral Dynamics group, Dr. Stephen Beckett and Dr. Mallory Harris, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET (17:30-19:30 UT) - ask me anything!

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