PhD candidate in wildlife disease ecology exploring how animal behavior and environmental factors shape pathogen transmission and spillover risk at Turner Lab, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology.

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My dissertation explores behavioral drivers of pathogen exposure in wildlife. I'm developing frameworks that integrate GPS telemetry, accelerometry, and spatial modeling to understand when and where transmission happens.

Current study systems:

• Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer, Wisconsin
• Nipah virus dynamics at the bat-human interface in Bangladesh

Research areas: Spatial epidemiology • Movement ecology • Environmental persistence • One Health surveillance

This GitHub hosts analysis code and reproducible workflows from my dissertation and field projects. Most repos are works in progress. I will upload the code once published.

This includes my dissertation projects and other collaborative works.

nipah-sap-collection-study-2025
Field study on date palm sap collection practices and Nipah virus spillover risk in Bangladesh

Spatial analysis: Working with sf, terra, arcgisbinding for wildlife movement data
Biotelemetry: GPS telemetry and accelerometer processing for behavioral classification
Statistics: Applying lme4, brms, and hierarchical modeling to field data
Reproducibility: Version control with Git, literate programming with Quarto

For questions about my research or code:
📧 mdnurul.islam@wisc.edu

Full CV, publications, and research details:
🌐 mnislam.com