Isabella Cattadori

Isabella Cattadori is a Professor of Biology at Penn State University, affiliated with the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Ecology, and Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences programs). Her research focuses on immuno-epidemiology of co-infections, specifically how host immunity modulates parasite interactions and transmission, and how molecular host processes influence population-level infection dynamics.

• Research Interests: Co-infection dynamics, climate change impacts on parasitic infections, vector biology, microbiome interactions, and mathematical modeling of host-parasite systems.
• Scientific Contributions: Key publications include theoretical and empirical studies on myxoma virus evolution, helminth transmission under climate change, PPRV epidemiology, and immune-mediated parasite facilitation.
• Collaborations: Works with interdisciplinary teams across ecology, microbiology, and computational biology, particularly in East African and Australian disease systems.