Area of research
Epidemiology · Modeling and Simulation
Research interest
Research interests include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Bacterial Infections and Vaccines, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.
Rapid inference of antibiotic susceptibility phenotype of uropathogens using metagenomic sequencing with neighbor typing
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States
Metrics to relate COVID-19 wastewater data to clinical testing dynamics
Early Introduction and Rise of the Omicron Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Variant in Highly Vaccinated University Populations
Analyzing the impact of a real-life outbreak simulator on pandemic mitigation: An epidemiological modeling study
An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes
Horizontal gene transfer and adaptive evolution in bacteria
Conjugative plasmids interact with insertion sequences to shape the horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes
SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater foreshadow dynamics and clinical presentation of new COVID-19 cases
Wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 across 40 U.S. states from February to June 2020
A framework for microbiome science in public health
Transmission from vaccinated individuals in a large SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant outbreak
The role of interspecies recombination in the evolution of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine Impact on Rates of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Cases and Postvaccination Strain Sequences Among Health Care Workers at an Urban Academic Medical Center: A Prospective Cohort Study
The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China
Persistence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an Immunocompromised Host
Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications
SARS-CoV-2 Titers in Wastewater Are Higher than Expected from Clinically Confirmed Cases
Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Boston highlights the impact of superspreading events
Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now
Phylogenetic interpretation during outbreaks requires caution
Previously undetected super-spreading of Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed by deep sequencing
Global emergence and population dynamics of divergent serotype 3 CC180 pneumococci
Evolution via recombination: Cell-to-cell contact facilitates larger recombination events in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Panproteome-wide analysis of antibody responses to whole cell pneumococcal vaccination
Multi-institute analysis of carbapenem resistance reveals remarkable diversity, unexplained mechanisms, and limited clonal outbreaks
Surveillance of pneumococcal colonization and invasive pneumococcal disease reveals shift in prevalent carriage serotypes in Massachusetts’ children to relatively low invasiveness
Population genetic structure, antibiotic resistance, capsule switching and evolution of invasive pneumococci before conjugate vaccination in Malawi
Host population structure and treatment frequency maintain balancing selection on drug resistance
Intrahost Evolution of Methicillin-Resistant<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>USA300 Among Individuals With Reoccurring Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections