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An Interdisciplinary Perspective of the Built-Environment Microbiome
John S. McAlister, Michael J. Blum, Yana Bromberg +8
The built environment provides an excellent setting for interdisciplinary research on the dynamics of microbial communities. The system is simplified compared to many natural setti…
The Case for Controls: Identifying outbreak risk factors through case-control comparisons
Nina H. Fefferman, Michael J. Blum, Lydia Bourouiba +7
Investigations of infectious disease outbreaks often focus on identifying place- and context-dependent factors responsible for emergence and spread, resulting in phenomenological n…
Not your private tête-à-tête: leveraging the power of higher-order networks to study animal communication
Iacopo Iacopini, Jennifer R Foote, Nina H Fefferman +2
Animal communication is frequently studied with conventional network representations that link pairs of individuals who interact, for example, through vocalisation. However, acoust…
Leveraging Insight from Centuries of Outbreak Preparedness to Improve Modern Planning Efforts
Nina H. Fefferman, Sharon DeWitte, Stephanie S. Johnson +1
Though pandemic preparedness has been a focus of public health planning for centuries, during which our understanding of infectious disease dynamics has grown, our methodologies fo…