Patrick Heffernan, B.A.
Ph.D Candidate
Contact Information
Email: pheffer3@nd.edu
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Education
B.A. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Philosophy; University of Colorado Boulder, 2021
Research
My research interests lie within changing environments and vector-borne disease. I am broadly interested in how environmental and anthropogenic factors interact with vector hosts to facilitate human diseases.
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Award
NIH F31 Individual Predoctoral Fellowship
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Publications
Mahon, M.B., Sack, A., Aleuy, O.A. et al [including Patrick M. Heffernan]. A meta-analysis on global change drivers and the risk of infectious disease. Nature 629, 830–836 (2024).
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Oldfather, M. F., Van Den Elzen, C. L., Heffernan, P. M., and Emery, N. C.. 2021. Dispersal evolution in temporally variable environments: implications for plant range dynamics. American Journal of Botany 108 (9): 1584-1594.