2021 Grad Lab Updates
July 2021 Stephen’s work on SARS-CoV-2 dynamics in acute infections in collaboration with colleagues at Yale, IQVIA, the NBA, and others now published at PLOS Biology! Congratulations, Stephen!
July 2021 Congratulations to Sam and Kyra on the publication of Identification of bile acid and fatty acid species as candidate rapidly bactericidal agents for topical treatment of gonorrhoea in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy!
July 2021 We’re excited to have Maddy Kline, an MD-PhD student, join us for a rotation this summer. Welcome, Maddy!
June 2021 Sky Martin joins the lab today as a research assistant, bringing with her background in networks and applied math. Welcome, Sky! We’re excited to work and learn with you!
June 2021 Welcome to Rebecca McSweeney, taking up the mantle as research assistant / lab manager! We’re thrilled that you’re joining us!
May 2021 Congratulations to Kevin on his paper on “Modeling the impact of racial and ethnic disparities on COVID-19 epidemic dynamics” being published in eLife!
May 2021 A bittersweet goodbye to Kyra, our research assistant / lab manager for the past two years, who is off to work with the Pew Foundation. We’ll miss you, and we’re excited for your new chapter!
May 2021 Well done to Katie on passing her PQE!
May 2021 Welcome to Jordan Jensen from the BPH program and to Rachel Petherbridge from the Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology program, who are rotating in the lab!
May 2021 We are thrilled for Jess Zhang, who is graduating from Harvard College this month and moving on to the MD-PhD Program at Tufts! We are grateful for her hard work and proud of her accomplishments–including an excellent thesis!–and though we’ll miss her in the lab, we’re glad she won’t be too far away!
Apr 2021 Congratulations to Stephen and collaborators Monina Klevens (Massachusetts DPH) and Michael Barnett (HSPH Dept of Health Policy and Management) on the paper published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, showing that in Massachusetts outpatient setting, geographic variation in antibiotic prescribing is due more to differences in visits than per visit prescribing, and a lower rate of visits is associated with lower socioeconomic status. The paper was accompanied by an editorial providing additional context for the work and identifying important next steps.
Mar 2021 Great work from a fantastic work of collaborators, led by Dan Larremore, in our paper now out at eLife on “Estimating SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence and epidemiological parameters with uncertainty from serological surveys.” This statistical framework has multiple applications — for COVID-19 serosurveys and beyond.
Mar 2021 Stephen and Moriah’s paper, “Reduction in antibiotic prescribing attainable with a gonococcal vaccine,” is published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Well done, Stephen and Moriah!
Mar 2021 Congrats to Dan for getting an F30 from NIAID/NIH! Fantastic news!
