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Rustom Antia

• Antia, R., Ganusov, V.V, & Ahmed, R. 2005 "The role of models in understanding CD8+ T cell memory." Nature Reviews Immunology. 5:
• Bergstrom, C.T. & Antia, R. 2006. "How do adaptive immune systems control pathogens while avoiding autoimmunity?" Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:22-28.
• Antia, R., Regoes, R.R., Koella, J.C., & Bergstrom, C.T. 2003. "The role of evolution in the emergence of infectious diseases." Nature 26:658-661.
• Handel, A., Regoes, R.R., & Antia, R. 2006. "Modeling compensatory mutations and the emergence of drug resistance." PloS Computational Biology. 2:e137.

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Greg Dasch

• Wikswo ME, Hu R, Dasch GA, Krueger L, Arugay A, Jones K, Hess B, Bennett S, Kramer V, Eremeeva ME. "Detection and identification of spotted fever group rickettsiae in Dermacentor species from southern California". J Med Entomol. 2008 May;45(3):509-16.
• Premaratna R, Loftis AD, Chandrasena TG, Dasch GA, de Silva HJ. "Rickettsial infections and their clinical presentations in the Western Province of Sri Lanka: a hospital-based study". Int J Infect Dis. 2008 Mar;12(2):198-202. Epub 2007 Sep 27.
• Lydy SL, Eremeeva ME, Asnis D, Paddock CD, Nicholson WL, Silverman DJ, Dasch GA. "Isolation and characterization of Bartonella bacilliformis from an expatriate Ecuadorian". J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Feb;46(2):627-37. Epub 2007 Dec 19.
• Estripeaut D, Aramburú MG, Sáez-Llorens X, Thompson HA, Dasch GA, Paddock CD, Zaki S, Eremeeva ME. "Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Panama". Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Nov;13(11):1763-5.
• Eremeeva ME, Oliveira A, Moriarity J, Robinson JB, Tokarevich NK, Antyukova LP, Pyanyh VA, Emeljanova ON, Ignatjeva VN, Buzinov R, Pyankova V, Dasch GA. "Detection and identification of bacterial agents in Ixodes persulcatus Schulze ticks from the north western region of Russia". Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2007 Fall;7(3):426-36.

Jaap deRoode

• Jacobus C. de Roode, Riccardo Pansini, Sandra J. Cheesman, Michelle E.H. Helinski, Silvie Huijben, Andrew R. Wargo, Andrew. S. Bell, Brian H.K. Chan, David Walliker, & Andrew F. Read. 2005. “Virulence and competitive ability in genetically diverse malaria infections”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102: 7624-7628.
• Jacobus C. de Roode, Andrew J. Yates & Sonia Altizer. 2008. “Virulence-transmission trade-offs and population divergence in virulence in a naturally occurring butterfly parasite”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 7489-7494.
• Jacobus C. de Roode, Amy B. Pedersen, Mark D. Hunter & Sonia Altizer. 2008. “Host plant species affects virulence in monarch butterfly parasites”. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 120-126.
• Rustom Antia, Andrew Yates & Jacobus C. de Roode. 2008. “The dynamics of acute malaria infections. I. Effect of the parasite’s red blood cell preference”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, in press.

• Gerardo, N.M., Jacobs, S., Currie, C.R.. & U.G. Mueller. 2006. “Ancient host-pathogen associations maintained by specificity of chemotaxis and antibiosis”. Public Library of Science - Biology (PLOS Biology) 4(8): 1358-1363.
• Gerardo, N.M., U.G. Mueller & C.R. Currie. 2006. “Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the Apterostigma fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis”. BMC Evolutionary Biology 6(88).

• "Timely identification of control strategies for emerging infectious diseases: severe acute respiratory syndrome in Singapore." (submitted to TPB)
• "Evaluating public health responses to re-introduced smallpox via dynamic, socially structured, and spatially distributed meta-population models." (with JM Lane et al.) Clin Infect Dis (supplement).
• "Clinical and public health applications of mathematical models. Lecture Note Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore." (invited chapter)
• 2001. "The risk of seizures after receipt of whole-cell pertussis or measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines." (with WE Barlow, et al.). N Engl J Med 345(9):656-61.

• 2005. "Reducing the global burden of congenital rubella syndrome: report of the WHO Steering Committee on Research Related to Measles and Rubella Vaccines and Vaccination," June, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland (with AM Arvin, et al.). J Infect Dis 192:1890-97.

Uriel Kitron

• Gürtler RE,1, Kitron U, Cecere MC, Segura EL, Cohen JE. 2007. “Sustainable vector control and management of Chagas disease in the Gran Chaco, Argentina”. PNAS 104:16194-9.
• Hamer GL, Walker ED, Brawn JD, Loss SR, Ruiz MO, Goldberg TL, Schotthoefer AM, Brown WM, Wheeler E, Kitron UD. 2008. “Rapid Amplification of West Nile Virus: The Role of Hatch-Year Birds”. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases 8: 57-68.
• Kitron U, Clennon JA, Cecere MC, Gürtler RE, King CH, Vázquez-Prokopec G. 2006. “Upscale or downscale: applications of fine scale remotely sensed data to Chagas disease in Argentina and schistosomiasis in Kenya”. Geospatial Health, 1: 49-58.
• Clennon JA, , Muchiri EM, King CH and U Kitron. 2007. “Hydrological modeling of snail dispersal patterns in Msambweni, Kenya and potential resurgence of Schistosoma haematobium transmission”. Parasitology 134:683-93.

Keith Klugman

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• Smith E.R., R. Huang, C. Cayrou, W. S. Lane, J. Cote, and J. C. Lucchesi 2005 "A human complex related to the Drosophila MSL complex is responsible for the majority of histone H4 acetylation at lysine 16." Molec. Cell Biol., 25: 9175-9188.
• Lucchesi, J.C., Kelly, W.G., and B. Panning 2005 "Chromatin remodeling in dosage compensation." Annu. Rev. Genet., 39: 615-651.
• Yokoyama, R., Pannuti, A., Ling, H., Smith, E.R., and J.C. Lucchesi 2007 "A plasmid model system shows that Drosophila dosage compensation depends on the global acetylation of histone H4 at lysine 16 and is not affected by depletion of common transcription elongation chromatin marks." Mol. Cell. Biol. 27: 7865-7870.

• Dong, J; Canfield, JM; Mehta, AK; Stokes, JE; Tian, B; Childers, WS; Simmons, JA; Mao, Z; Scott, RA; Warncke, K; Lynn, DG. 2007 "Engineering metal ion coordination to regulate amyloid fibril assembly and toxicity", Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 13313-13318.
• Mehta, AK; Lu, K; Childers, WS; Liang, Y; Dublin, S; Dong, J; Snyder, JP; Skanthakumar, S; Thiyagerajan, P; Lynn, DG. 2008 "Facial Symmetry in Self-assembly", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130, 9829-9835.
• Palmer, A.G.; Liu, Y.; Adkins, S.M.; Zhang, X.; Wu, I-L.; Chen, X.; Lynn, D.G. 2008. "The Molecular Language of Semagenesis". Plant Signaling & Behavior, 3:8, 560-561.
• Liang, Y.; Pingali, S.V.; Jogalekar, A.S.; Snyder, J.P.; Thiyagarajan, P.; Lynn, D.G. 2008. "Cross-strand Pairing and Amyloid Assembly", Biochemistry, 47: 10018-10026.
• Liang, Y.; Gao, P.; Pingali, S.V.; Pabit, S.; Thiyagarajan, P.; Berland, K. M.; Lynn, D.G. 2008. "Light Harvesting Antenna on an Amyloid Scaffold". ChemComm. DOI:10.1039.

• Rao AN, Barlow M, Clark LA, Boring JR III, Tenover FC, McGowan JE Jr. "Class 1 integrons in resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp, US hospitals." Emerg Infect Dis 2006; 12: 1012-1014.
• McGowan JE Jr, Tenover FC. "Confronting bacterial resistance in healthcare settings – a crucial role for the microbiologist." Nature Reviews Microbiology 2004; 2: 251-258.

• Mills, J.N. and Childs, J.E. "Ecologic studies of rodent reservoirs: their relevance for human health." Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1998 Oct-Dec 4(4):529-37
• Mills, J. N. "Regulation of rodent-borne viruses in the natural host: implications for human disease." Archives of Virology Supplement, 2005;(19):45-57.
• Mills JN. 2006. "Biodiversity loss and emerging infectious disease: an example from the rodent-borne hemorrhagic fevers." Biodiversity. 7(1):9-17

• Real, L.A., C. A. Russell, L. Waller, D. Smith and J. E. Childs. 2005. "Spatial dynamics and molecular ecology of North American rabies." Journal of Heredity 96: 1-8.
• Russell, C. A., D.L. Smith, J.E. Childs, and L.A. Real. 2005. "Predictive spatial dynamics and strategic planning for raccoon rabies emergence in Ohio." PLoS 3: 382-389.
• Real, L.A., J.E. Childs. 2006. "Spatial-temporal dynamics of rabies in ecological communities." pp. 168-185. In S.K. Collinge and C. Ray (eds.) Disease Ecology: Community structure and pathogen dynamics. Oxford, University Press.
• Walsh, P. D., R. Biek, and L. A. Real. 2005. "Wave-like spread of Ebola Zaire." PloS Biology 3: 1-8.
• Real, L. A., J. C. Henderson, R. Biek, J. Snaman, T. Lambert-Jack, J. E. Childs, E. Stahl. L. Waller, R. Tinline, and S. Nadin-Davis. 2005. "Unifying the spatial population dynamics and molecular evolution of epidemic rabies virus." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 12107-12111.

• Rudd, M.K.*, Endicott, R.M.*, Friedman, C., Walker, M., Young, J.M., Osoegawa, K., NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, de Jong, P.J., Green, E.D., and Trask, B.J. 2008. “Comparative sequence analysis of primate subtelomeres originating from a chromosome fission event.” Genome Research (in press).
• Rudd, M.K., Friedman, C., Parghi, S.S., Linardopoulou, E.V., Hsu, L., and Trask, B.J. 2007. “Elevated rates of sister chromatid exchange at chromosome ends.” PLoS Genetics 3: 319-323.
• Rudd, M.K., Wray, G.A., and Willard, H.F. 2005. “The evolutionary dynamics of alpha satellite.” Genome Research 16: 88-96.
• Rudd, M.K. and Willard, H.F. 2004. “Analysis of the centromeric regions of the human genome assembly.” Trends in Genetics 11: 529-533. (peer-reviewed genome analysis article)
• Rudd, M.K., Mays, R.W., Schwartz, S., and Willard, H.F. 2003. “Human artificial chromosomes with alpha satellite-based de novo centromeres show increased frequency of nondisjunction and anaphase lag.” Molecular and Cellular Biology 23: 7689-7697.

Charles Rupprecht

• Franka R, Constantine DG, Kuzmin I, Velasco-Villa A, Reeder SA, Streicker D, Orciari LA, Wong AJ, Blanton JD, Rupprecht CE. "A new phylogenetic lineage of rabies virus associated with western pipistrelle bats (Pipistrellus hesperus)." J Gen Virol. 2006 ;87(Pt 8):2309-21.
• Leslie MJ, Messenger S, Rohde RE, Smith J, Cheshier R, Hanlon C, Rupprecht CE. "Bat-associated rabies virus in skunks." Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12:1274-7.

• Schlenke TA, Begun DJ. "Strong selective sweep associated with a transposon insertion in Drosophila simulans." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Feb 10;101(6):1626-31.
• Schlenke TA, Begun DJ. "Natural selection drives Drosophila immune system evolution." Genetics. 2003 Aug;164(4):1471-80.
• Schlenke TA, Morales J, Govind S, Clark AG. "Contrasting infection strategies in generalist and specialist wasp parasitoids of Drosophila melanogaster." PLoS Pathog. 2007 3:1486-501

• Sherman SL, Freeman SB, Allen EG, Lamb NE. "Risk factors for nondisjunction of trisomy 21." Cytogenet Genome Res 111:273-280, 2005.
• Lamb NE, Sherman SL, Hassold TJ. "Effect of meiotic recombination on the production of aneuploid gametes in humans." Cytogenet Genome Res 111:250-255, 2005.
• Kerstann KF, Feingold E, Freeman SB, Bean LJH, Pyatt R, Tinker S, Meltzer M, Jewel AH, Capone G, Sherman SL: "Linkage disequilibrium mapping in trisomic populations: analytical approaches and an application to congenital heart defects in Down syndrome." Genet Epid 27:240-251, 2004.
• Sullivan AK, Crawford-Hall DC, Scott EH, Leslie MS, Sherman SL. "Paternally-transmitted FMR1 alleles are less stable than maternally-transmitted alleles in the common and intermediate size range." American Journal of Human Genetics, 70:1532-1544, 2002.
• Crawford DC, Zhang F, Wilson B, Warren ST, Sherman SL: "Fragile X CGG repeat structures among African-Americans: identification of a novel factor responsible for repeat instability." Hum Molec Genet 9:1759-1769, 2000.

• Kahler CM, Blum E, Miller YK, Ryan D, Popovic T, Stephens DS. "exl, an exchangeable genetic island in Neisseria meningitidis." Infect Immun 2001; 69:1687-96.
• Dolan-Livengood JM, Miller YK, Kahler CM, Reeves M, Ajello G, and Stephens DS. "Genetic basis for nongroupable Neisseria meningitidis." J Infect Dis 2003; 187:1616-28.
• Gay K, Stephens DS. "Structure and dissemination of a chromosomal insertion element encoding macrolide efflux in Streptococcus pneumoniae." J Infect Dis 2001; 184:56-65.
• Stephens DS, Zughaier SM, Whitney CG, Baughman WS, Barker L, Gay K, Jackson D, Orenstein WA, Arnold K, Schuchat A, Farley MM, and the Georgia Emerging Infections Program. "Incidence of macrolide resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae after introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: population-based assessment." Lancet 2005; 365:855-63.

• Tao, Y., D. L. Hartl & C. C. Laurie. 2001. "Sex-ratio segregation distortion associated with reproductive isolation in Drosophila." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 13183-13188.
• Tao, Y., S. Chen, D. L. Hartl & C. C. Laurie. 2003. "Genetic dissection of hybrid incompatibilities between Drosophila simulans and Drosophila mauritiana. I. Differential accumulation of hybrid male sterility effects on the X and autosomes." Genetics 164: 1383 – 1397.
• Tao Y, Masly JP, Araripe L, Ke Y, Hartl DL (2007) "A sex-ratio meiotic drive system in Drosophila simulans. I: An autosomal suppressor." PLoS Biol 5(11): e292.
• Tao Y, Araripe L, Kingan SB, Ke Y, Xiao H, et al. (2007) "A sex-ratio meiotic drive system in Drosophila simulans. II: An X-linked distorter." PLoS Biol 5(11): e293.

• Tauxe, R. (2002). "Emerging foodborne pathogens." International Journal of Food Microbiology 78: 31-41.
• Tauxe, R. V. (2006). "Molecular Subtyping and the Transformation of Public Health." Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. S. P. Oliver, Mary Ann Liebert ,Inc. 3: 4-8.

• Taylor J, Tyekucheva S, King DC, Hardison RC, Miller W, and Chiaromonte F. "ESPERR: Learning strong and weak signals in genomic sequence alignments to identify functional elements". Genome Research. 2006 Dec; 16(12):1596-604.
• King DC, Taylor J, Zhang Y, Cheng Y, Lawson HA, Martin J, ENCODE groups for Transcriptional Regulation and Multispecies Alignment, Chiaromonte F, Miller W, Hardison RC. "Finding cis-regulatory elements using comparative genomics: some lessons from ENCODE data". Genome Research. 2007 Jun; 17(6):775-786.

• Keebaugh, A.C., Sullivan, R.T., NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Thomas, J.W. "Gene duplication and inactivation in the HPRT-gene family," Genomics, in press.
• Thomas, J.W., et al, and Green, E.D. "Comparative analyses of multi-species sequences from targeted genomic regions." Nature, 424:788-793, 2003.
• Cáceres, M., NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Sullivan, R.T., Thomas, J.W. "A recurrent inversion on the eutherian X chromosome." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104:18571-18576, 2007.

• McCollum AM, Poe A, Hamel M, Huber C, Zhou Z, Shi YP, Ouma P, Vulule J, Bloland P,  Slutsker L,  Barnwell  JW,  Udhayakumar V,  Escalante AA.  2006. "Antifolate resistance in Plasmodium falciparum: multiple origins and identification of novel dhfr alleles."  J. Infect. Dis. 194: 189-97. 
• McCollum AM, Mueller K, Villegas L, Udhayakumar V, Escalante A. 2007. "Common origin and fixation of Plasmodium falciparum dhfr and dhps mutations associated with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance in a low transmission area in South America." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 51 (6): 2085-2091.
• Keen J, Serghides L, Ayi K, Patel SN, Ayisi J, van Eijk A, Steketee R, Udhayakumar V, and Kain KC. 2007. "HIV Impairs Opsonic Phagocytic Clearance of Pregnancy-Associated Malaria Parasites." PLOS Medicine, 4(5): e181.
• Ned R, Moore JM, Chaisavaneeyakorn S, and Udhayakumar V. 2005. "Modulation of immune responses during HIV-malaria coinfection in pregnancy." Trends Parasitol. 21(6):284-91.
• Aidoo M, Terlouw DJ, Kolczak MS, McElroy PD, ter Kuile F, Kariuki S, Nahlen BL, Lal A, and Udhayakumar V. 2002. "Protective effects of the sickle cell trait gene against malaria morbidity and mortality." Lancet 359: 1311-1312

• Waldman, I.D., Nigg, J.T., Gizer, I.R., Park, L., Rappley, M., and Friderici, K. (2006). "The Adrenergic Receptor 2-a Gene (ADRA2a) and Neuropsychological Executive Functions as Putative Endophenotypes for Childhood ADHD." Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 6, 18
• Waldman, I.D. (2005). "Statistical Approaches to Complex Phenotypes: Evaluating Neuropsychological Endophenotypes for ADHD." Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1347-1356.
• Park, L., Nigg, J.T., Waldman, I.D., Nummy, K.A., Huang-Pollock, C., Rappley, M. Friderici, K.H. (2005). "Association and Linkage of a-2A Adrenergic Receptor Gene Polymorphisms with Childhood ADHD." Molecular Psychiatry, 10, 572-580.
• Waldman, I.D., Rowe, D.C., Abramowitz, A., Kozel, S.T., Mohr, J.H., Sherman, S.L., Cleveland, H.H., Sanders, M.L., & Stever, C. (1998). "Association and linkage of the dopamine transporter gene (DAT1) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in children." American Journal of Human Genetics, 63, 1767-1776.

• Waller, L.A., Smith, D., Real, L.A., and Childs, J. (2003) "Monte Carlo assessments of goodness of fit for ecological simulation models".
• Smith, D., Lucey, B.,Waller, L.A., Childs, J.E., and Real, L.A. (2002) "Predicting the spatial dynamics of rabies epidemics on heterogeneous landscapes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 99, 3668-3672.

• T.M. McDade and C.M. Worthman, 1999. "Evolutionary process and the ecology of human immune function." American Journal of Human Biology 11: 705-717.
• C.M. Worthman and J. Kuzara, 2005. "Life history and the early origins of health differentials." American Journal of Human Biology 17:95-112.