Nicole Nova

Nicole is a postdoc at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, working with Bryan Grenfell and C. Jessica Metcalf. As a PhD student in the Petrov Lab and the Mordecai Lab (2016–2022), Nicole studied the ecology and evolution of emerging infectious diseases in humans and wild carnivores. For example, her work found genetic evidence for long-term persistence of canine distemper virus in Arctic foxes and viral cross-species transmission among wild canids in Alaska. Prior to her PhD studies, Nicole worked on mathematical modeling of cancer evolution in the Michor Lab at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (2014–2015) and eco-evolutionary dynamics of HIV in the Koelle Research Group at Duke University (2015–2016). Nicole received her undergraduate and graduate training in dental surgery at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. More information about Nicole and her research can be found there.