Phage, modelling, maybe other things...
Translated from its latin roots astrophage reads something along the lines of star-eater . This is as much as I will give away with relation to the plot of Project Hail Mary which is about to push astrophage into the public lexicon with the films March release. While I am yet to watch the movie at [ ]
2025 was a big year, with the biggest change in my life being my welcome to parenthood a rollercoaster of joy and chaos and love beyond description. This review is coming a little early this year as I prepare to take parental leave. In my professional life I advanced various research projects and networks [ ]
Infections are different but so is transmission. In our new paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology (Harris et al. 2025), we investigate how co-variation in individual propensity to becoming infected or transmitting an infection impacts epidemic trajectories. While these factors have been studied independently, they are rarely considered together. In epidemic models a core [ ]
As 2-D (Damien Albarn) sings in the chorus of MF DOOM’s collaboration with Gorillaz: “Well you know November has come when it s gone away”. It’s been a busy year. Here’s a recap for 2024 – my first full year in Maryland and at the University of Maryland as an Associate Research Scientist. It’s been a [ ]
In this post I write on a couple of esoteric points regarding modularity scores how many ways are there to partition a network into modules, and what modularity scores are possible with a specific focus on those in bipartite networks (note: a previous post on this topic). A bipartite network is a network [ ]
The following has been done many times before in many different languages, but I think it is useful to showcase how easy it is to construct models that can utilize state-of-the-art numerical integration solvers using the Julia language. The below is a short tutorial on writing out and running the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered compartment model which forms [ ]
We have a new paper out in Nature Communications titled: Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre . For those in the know this has been a long running project, led by myself and David Demory, which has taken multiple years to push out to publication [ ]
Way back in 2020, during the early phases of COVID-19 pandemic we developed data-driven estimates of exposure risk for events based on group size using US county-level case data which we deployed on a publicly accessible website: covid19risk.biosci.gatech.edu. This project evolved and now represents joint work through a collaboration between our team (previously at Georgia [ ]
I wanted to try and spur myself into reading more and thought posting my book list to a public place may be a good motivator. Here are the book s I have read/am currently reading this year: Dune Frank Herbert The Siberian Dilemma Martin Cruz Smith There are so many good books out there. [ ]
Our new paper Contrasting controls on microzooplankton grazing and viral infection of microbial prey is now out in Frontiers in Marine Science. I am a joint coauthor on this work and am proud of how it has turned out, and especially proud as it includes research undertaken by an undergraduate I mentored. It s been a [ ]