Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet.      

Publications3

Title Year Journal Tools
Combined pigment and metatranscriptomic analysis reveals highly synchronized diel patterns of phenotypic light response across domains in the open oligotrophic ocean 2021 The ISME Journal
A single-cell polony method reveals low levels of infected Prochlorococcus in oligotrophic waters despite high cyanophage abundances 2021 The ISME Journal
Revisiting the rules of life for viruses of microorganisms 2021 Nature Reviews Microbiology
Forward-looking serial intervals correctly link epidemic growth to reproduction numbers 2021 PNAS
Fighting microbial pathogens by integrating host ecosystem interactions and evolution 2021 BioEssays
A thermal trade‐off between viral production and degradation drives virus‐phytoplankton population dynamics 2021 Ecology Letters Github Repository
Estimating the cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and the infection fatality ratio in light of waning antibodies 2021 Epidemiology
Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread 2020 Nature Medicine Github Repository
The time scale of asymptomatic transmission affects estimates of epidemic potential in the COVID-19 outbreak 2020 Epidemics
Optimizing the Timing and Composition of Therapeutic Phage Cocktails: A Control-Theoretic Approach 2020 Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Quantitative Models of Phage-Antibiotic Combination Therapy 2020 mSystems Github repository
Real-time, interactive website for US-county-level COVID-19 event risk assessment 2020 Nature Human Behavior
Allelic polymorphism shapes community function in evolving Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations 2020 The ISME Journal
Linking Light-Dependent Life History Traits with Population Dynamics for Prochlorococcus and Cyanophage 2020 mSystems Github Repository
A Primer for Microbiome Time-Series Analysis 2020 Frontiers in Genetics Github Repository
Reconciling early-outbreak estimates of the basic reproductive number and its uncertainty: framework and applications to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak 2020 Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Topological constraints in early multicellularity favor reproductive division of labor 2020 eLife
When be Temperate: On the Fitness Benefits of Lysis vs. Lysogeny 2020 Virus Evolution Github Repository
Systematic biases in disease forecasting – The role of behavior change 2019 Epidemics
Not by (Good) Microbes Alone: Towards Immunocommensal Therapies 2019 Trends in Microbiology Github Repository
A practical generation-interval-based approach to inferring the strength of epidemics from their speed 2019 Epidemics
Spatial Interactions and Oscillatory Tragedies of the Commons 2019 Physical Review Letters Github Repository
An empirical model of carbon flow through marine viruses and microzooplankton grazers 2019 Environmental Microbiology
Viral invasion fitness across a continuum from lysis to latency 2019 Virus Evolution Github Repository
Caution in inferring viral strategies from abundance correlations in marine metagenomes 2019 Nature Communications
Functional and Comparative Genomic Analysis of Integrated Prophage-Like Sequences in “Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus” 2019 mSphere Github Repository
Contrasting Controls on Microzooplankton Grazing and Viral Infection of Microbial Prey 2019 Frontiers in Marine Science
Heterogeneous viral strategies promote coexistence in virus-microbe systems 2019 Journal of Theoretical Biology
The ecological and biogeochemical state of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is linked to sea surface height 2019 Journal of Marine Research
Quantitative Infection Dynamics of Cafeteria Roenbergensis Virus 2018 Viruses Github Repository

The Weitz Group

Investigating how viruses transform human health and the fate of our planet

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School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

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