Postdoctoral Fellow, Turner Lab
Yale School of Medicine
Yale University
“Social conflict within viral populations: from evolutionary causes to epidemiological consequences”
Dr. Asher Leeks studies social evolution in viruses. Viruses are intrinsically social organisms; every aspect of the viral lifecycle can be influenced by social interactions, from replication within a cell to transmission between hosts. He uses social evolution theory to understand how these interactions evolve and to predict their clinical consequences.
He is currently a JSMF postdoctoral fellow with Professor Paul Turner at Yale University. Previously, he studied at the University of Oxford with Professor Stuart West and Professor Ashleigh Griffin.