Lisa

Couper

Lisa Couper is a graduate student in the Biology department interested in infectious disease ecology. Her research focuses on how climate change affects vector-borne disease dynamics, and how vectors may adapt to changing temperatures. Her prior work has focused on tick microbial ecology, and the drivers of variation in Lyme disease incidence in the US. She completed my undergrad at UNC in Environmental Science where she studied the effects of human land use on coastal phytoplankton communities.