Assistant Prof of Immunology & Infectious Diseases at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Studying infectious diseases & how pathogens evolve and spread.
SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics that report viral RNA concentrations can be used to determine a patient's stage of infection, but this potential has not yet been realized due to a lack of prospective longitudinal data to calibrate such inferences. Here, we...
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Yonatan GradNew preprint: Here we report quantitative prospective longitudinal testing from @nba players, staff and vendors & consider how these data can be used to improve diagnostic and surveillance testing algorithms. medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/n
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The mechanisms underlying resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to the antibiotic azithromycin are incompletely understood. Here, Ma et al. conduct a conditional genome-wide association study to identify new resistance mutations and experimentally...
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Yonatan GradOur paper using conditional GWAS to discover new antibiotic resistance determinants in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, here including experimental validation of the role of rplD variants in azithromycin resistance, now out. 1/n
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Schedule of speakers:
9/24/20: Bonnielin Swenor, Director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health Research Center and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
10/1/20: Jarvis Chen, Research...
Many health officials around the world are working to contain second waves of the coronavirus. As part of our regular series on the pandemic with Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, join us as we examine what's driving the latest wave of...
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Seminars take place weekly on Thursdays from 2:00 – 3:00pm ET between September 24 and October 22, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has disproportionately affected communities…
When a vaccine for COVID-19 becomes available, limited initial supply will raise the question of how to prioritize the available doses and thus underscores the need for transparent, evidence-based strategies that relate knowledge of, and uncertainty...
Abstract. The extent and duration of immunity following SARS-CoV-2 infection are critical outstanding questions about the epidemiology of this novel virus, and
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa ( Pa ) is a major bacterial pathogen responsible for chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. Recent work by ourselves and others has implicated Pf bacteriophages, non-lytic filamentous viruses produced by Pa , in...
The Smith Odyssey Award supports the pursuit of high impact ideas to generate breakthroughs and drive new directions in biomedical research.
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Yonatan GradThanks so much to the Smith Family Foundation for the support through the Odyssey Award! The lab is looking for new post-docs, with official ads to post very soon -- interests & backgrounds in genomics, microbiology, and bioinformatics welcome!
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How bacteria link their rate of growth to the external nutrient conditions is not known. To explore how Bacillus subtilis modulates the rate cells expand their encapsulating cell wall, we compared the single-cell growth rate to the density of moving...
Postdoc opportunity August 1, 2020 Nathan Grubaugh, Anne Wyllie, and Dan Weinberger at the Yale School of Public Health are hiring a joint postdoc to develop COVID-19 testing strategies and uncover…