Steering Committee
Amee Manges, PrePARE Steering Committee Member, School of Population and Public Health, UBC
Dr. Amee Manges is a Professor, and molecular epidemiologist, in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. Her primary research focus is on understanding how communities of microorganisms that live within us affect the development and maintenance of our health. Dr. Manges research seeks to examine the microbiota’s role in child undernutrition, environmental enteric dysfunction and antibiotic resistance. Dr. Manges is also working on the development of a next generation sequencing-based diagnostic tool for infectious agents, in collaboration with BugSeq Bioinformatics.
Manish Sadarangani, PrePARE Steering Committee Member, Vaccine Evaluation Center at BC Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, UBC
Dr. Manish Sadarangani is the Director of the Vaccine Evaluation Center (VEC) at BC Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of British Columbia Department of Pediatrics. His work at the VEC focuses on evidence-based developments for vaccines to lower the burden of childhood infectious disease. Dr. Sadarangani’s connects clinical trials with microbiology, immunology, and epidemiology to tackle clinically relevant issues in immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases.
Sally Otto, PrePARE Steering Committee Member, Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, UBC
Dr. Sally Otto is a Professor in the Department of Zoology and the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. Her research seeks to understand the evolutionary processes that have produced the incredible diversity of life, addressing fundamental questions such as why some species reproduce asexually while others reproduce sexually, or why genome sizes vary among closely related species. Using a combination of mathematical theory, statistical inference, and evolutionary experiments with yeast, her current work focuses on the extent to which organisms can adapt to a changing world and why they might fail to do so.
Staff
Emily Altiere Kerr, PrePARE Program Coordinator
Dr. Emily Altiere Kerr is the Program Coordinator for the Prepare for Pandemics Through Advanced Research in Evolution (PrePARE) research cluster. She is responsible for program coordination, planning organizational events to enable collaboration among members of the cluster, and communication and information exchange between the UBC community and the public. Emily completed her Ph.D. in Physics at the University of British Columbia and holds a certificate in project management. She was a founding member of the Physics and Astronomy EDI group at UBC in 2017, which enables education, support and development of strategic initiatives in the department.
Contact: emily.altiere@ubc.ca