by pilosofs | May 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Qixin’s paper “Networks of genetic similarity reveal non-neutral processes shape strain structure in Plasmodium falciparum” is now published in Nature Communications. In the paper we use network theory to identify signatures of immune selection in...
by pilosofs | Jan 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
Xiangjun and Mercedes have published a prediction for the incidence of Infleunza inthe US for the 2017-2018 Influenza Season. The prediction is now published in PLoS Current Outbreaks. Using methodology developed in their recent paper in Science Advances, their model...
by pilosofs | Dec 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mercedes is a co-author on a new paper, titled “Understanding the role of parasites in food webs using the group model”. The first authors are two PhD students from Stefano Allesina’s lab. See the paper here.
by pilosofs | Dec 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last Saturday we all gathered at Qixin’s place for an end-of-the-year party. It was also an opportunity to say good bye to those who are leaving us: Pamela who will start her postdoc in Harvard, Ruby who is going to India for field work and Xianjun who will...
by pilosofs | Nov 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
A new paper, a result of work led by Xiangjun Du, uses evolutionary information to try to forecast upcoming H3N2 seasons in advance using genetic sequences. After developing the model, we used it to predict that H3N2 in the pending 2016/2017 season will be at a higher...
by pilosofs | Oct 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Our beloved Pamela is now officially a PhD! Pamela gave a wonderful talk to the department and passed her defense without any probelm 🙂 Pamenla will continue to a postdoc postion in Harvard Medical School with Prof. Marc Lipsitch. We will of course be very sad to see...
