Emily Javan is a PhD student in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at UT Austin and part of the UT Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium advised by Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers. She is currently rotating in Dr. Vagheesh Narasimhan’s lab to identify recessive variants in the human genome associated with disease using exome sequencing and electronic health record data, but broadly interested in how diseases spread and manifest from genetic and environmental factors. She received her BS in Applied Mathematics from UC Davis with a minor in Evolution, Ecology, and Biodiversity and her MS in Population and Conservation Biology from Texas State University. Emily is also interested in the spread of monkeypox and Ebola virus disease in the DRC and the role of terrorist attacks on healthcare on in limiting response efforts.