C. Brandon Ogbunugafor
MD/PhD Student in Yale School of Medicine
chike.brandon@yale.edu
Research interests
Prior to joining the Turner lab, I worked on the behavioral and chemical ecology of malaria vectors. This work served as my introduction to ecological approaches to understanding disease-related phenomenon, an interest I carried into the Turner lab.
I’m currently studying how characteristics of RNA viruses such as robustness(genetic and environmental) and generalism impact disease emergence and drug resistance. In addition, I am interested in various aspects of virus life history, including the relative evolvability of virus life history traits and potential tradeoffs between such traits.
On a grander scale, I hope to utilize my background in the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases to establish a research career in Darwinian medicine, where I can use ecological and evolutionary approaches to bring novel therapeutic regimens from the bench(and field) to the bedside.
Background
Publications
- Ogbunugafor CB, and Sumba LA. Behavioral Evidence for the Existence of a Region-Specific Oviposition Cue in Anopheles gambiae s.s. Journal of Vector Ecology. Vol 33, No. 2
- Sumba LA, Ogbunugafor CB, Deng AL, Hassanali A. Regulation of Oviposition in Anopheles gambiae s.s.: Role of Inter- and Intra-Specific Signals. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 2008 Nov;34(11):1430-6.
- Britto PR, Cerezo A., and Ogbunugafor CB. National ECD policy development: Case Study from the People's Democratic Republic of Lao. International Journal of Early Childhood. 40(2), 101-118
- McBride RC, Ogbunugafor CB and Turner PE. Robustness Promotes the Evolvability of Thermotolerance in an RNA Virus. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8:231
- Omlin FX, Carlson JC, Ogbunugafor CB, Hassanali A, Anopheles gambiae Exploits the Treehole Ecosystem in Western Kenya: A New Urban Malaria Risk? American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77(6_Suppl), 2007, pp. 264-269
- Smith-Rohrberg D, Ogbunugafor CB, Basu S, 2006. Treatment of Latent? Tuberculosis Infection in High-Burden Resource-Poor Countries. In ?Sharma SK and Mohan A, editors. Tuberculosis. New Delhi: Jaypee?Brothers Medical Publishers.
- Ogbunugafor CB, On Reductionism in Biology: Pillars, Leaps and the Naïve Behavioral Scientist. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 2004 May;77(3-4):101-9.
- C.B. Ogbunugafor, The Chemist and the Reluctant Economist, In Chemistry, Vol. 12 No.4, April/May 2003
- C. Brandon Ogbunugafor, Vernon R. Morris, A Discussion of the Colorado Agricultural Field Experiment, its Contribution to the Characterization of Ambient Trace Gas Species on an Agricultural Field, and its Implications for Tropospheric Modelling, Berkeley Scientific Journal VOL 4.1 2000
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