{"id":576,"date":"2015-04-24T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/?page_id=576"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:28:30","slug":"manojit-roy-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/manojit-roy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manojit Roy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manojit Roy<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"size-medium alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/files\/Roy-mugshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/files\/Roy-mugshot-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Manojit Roy, past Post-Doctoral Associate \" class=\"wp-image-540\" style=\"width:262px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/files\/Roy-mugshot-262x300.jpg 262w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/files\/Roy-mugshot-200x229.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/files\/Roy-mugshot-300x344.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/files\/Roy-mugshot.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manojit Roy<br>\nPost-Doctoral Associate<br>\nPh.D., University of Pune (India)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now at the University of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>I am a theoretical ecologist, and I use mathematical and computational models to address questions in population\/community ecology and infectious disease epidemiology.\u00a0 Among my current interests are: 1) Using individual-based models of populations and communities, with neighborhood interactions among individuals, to explore the role of the spatial range and type of these interactions in generating aggregation (\u201cclustering\u201d) patterns of the individuals. 2) Using spatially explicit metapopulation and metacommunity models to study the conditions for population persistence and species coexistence in spatio-temporally varying environments. 3) Using both ODE-based and explicit (spatial and network-based) models of populations and communities to explore the patterns of spread of an infectious disease through the population\/community, conditions of pathogen invasion success and endemism, and effects of the \u201cbackground\u201d community interactions on host-pathogen dynamics.\u00a0 A central focus of my research is in understanding the interplay of spatial and social interactions, both ecological and epidemiological, in shaping real ecological communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-576","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/576\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/rdholt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}