She earned her PhD from Indiana University and subsequently conducted research as a postdoctoral research scientist at the University of Edinburgh (National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow) and Columbia University. A disease ecologist by training, Evie’s research investigates co-infection in wild mice, how parasites and pathogens interact within with each other and with the host immune system. Evie collaborates with ecologists, bioinformaticians, and immunologists to address integrative questions of how within-host processes affect population and community scale disease dynamics. Her overall goal is to increase science literacy among non-science majors and to give students the confidence to bring in ideas of the scientific process and understanding of the natural world into how they think about their careers.