Epernicus: Joshua B Plotkin

Joshua B Plotkin

Position:
Assistant Professor

Biology

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
Degrees:
Past Advisors:

Simon A Levin (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Martin A. Nowak (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
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Joshua Plotkin's Publications (41)

Rational spatio-temporal strategies for controlling a Chagas disease vector in urban environments.
Levy MZ, Malaga Chavez FS, Cornejo Del Carpio JG, Vilhena DA, McKenzie FE, Plotkin JB

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society. 2010 Jul 6;7(48):1061-70
Some Consequences of Demographic Stochasticity in Population Genetics.
Parsons TL, Quince C, Plotkin JB

Genetics. 2010 May 17
Mutational robustness can facilitate adaptation.
Draghi JA, Parsons TL, Wagner GP, Plotkin JB

Nature. 2010 Jan 21;463(7279):353-5
Reconstructing influenza incidence by deconvolution of daily mortality time series.
Goldstein E, Dushoff J, Ma J, Plotkin JB, Earn DJ, Lipsitch M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2009 Dec 22;106(51):21825-9
The dynamics of adaptation on correlated fitness landscapes.
Kryazhimskiy S, Tkacik G, Plotkin JB

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2009 Nov 3;106(44):18638-43
On the accessibility of adaptive phenotypes of a bacterial metabolic network.
Ndifon W, Plotkin JB, Dushoff J

PLoS computational biology. 2009 Aug;5(8):e1000472
Isolation and characterization of adenoviruses persistently shed from the gastrointestinal tract of non-human primates.
Roy S, Vandenberghe LH, Kryazhimskiy S, Grant R, Calcedo R, Yuan X, Keough M, Sandhu A, Wang Q, Medina-Jaszek CA, Plotkin JB, Wilson JM

PLoS pathogens. 2009 Jul;5(7):e1000503
Coding-sequence determinants of gene expression in Escherichia coli.
Kudla G, Murray AW, Tollervey D, Plotkin JB

Science (New York, N.Y.). 2009 Apr 10;324(5924):255-8
Spatial patterns in discordant diagnostic test results for Chagas disease: links to transmission hotspots.
Levy MZ, Bowman NM, Kawai V, Plotkin JB, Waller LA, Cabrera L, Steurer F, Seitz AE, Pinedo-Cancino VV, Cornejo del Carpio JG, Cordova Benzaquen E, McKenzie FE, Maguire JH, Gilman RH, Bern C

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2009 Apr 15;48(8):1104-6
Absorption and fixation times for neutral and quasi-neutral populations with density dependence.
Parsons TL, Quince C, Plotkin JB

Theoretical population biology. 2008 Dec;74(4):302-10
The polymorphism frequency spectrum of finitely many sites under selection.
Desai MM, Plotkin JB

Genetics. 2008 Dec;180(4):2175-91
The population genetics of dN/dS.
Kryazhimskiy S, Plotkin JB

PLoS genetics. 2008 Dec;4(12):e1000304
Directionality in the evolution of influenza A haemagglutinin.
Kryazhimskiy S, Bazykin GA, Plotkin JB, Plotkin J, Dushoff J

Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society. 2008 Nov 7;275(1650):2455-64
Persistent expression of Pax3 in the neural crest causes cleft palate and defective osteogenesis in mice.
Wu M, Li J, Engleka KA, Zhou B, Lu MM, Plotkin JB, Epstein JA

The Journal of clinical investigation. 2008 Jun;118(6):2076-87
Variations in the progranulin gene affect global gene expression in frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
Chen-Plotkin AS, Geser F, Plotkin JB, Clark CM, Kwong LK, Yuan W, Grossman M, Van Deerlin VM, Trojanowski JQ, Lee VM

Human molecular genetics. 2008 May 15;17(10):1349-62
Genome landscapes and bacteriophage codon usage.
Lucks JB, Nelson DR, Kudla GR, Plotkin JB

PLoS computational biology. 2008 Feb;4(2):e1000001
Genome-wide analysis of natural selection on human cis-elements.
Sethupathy P, Giang H, Plotkin JB, Hannenhalli S

PloS one. 2008;3(9):e3137
A statistical theory for sampling species abundances.
Green JL, Plotkin JB

Ecology letters. 2007 Nov;10(11):1037-45
Assessing the determinants of evolutionary rates in the presence of noise.
Plotkin JB, Fraser HB

Molecular biology and evolution. 2007 May;24(5):1113-21
Vaccinating to protect a vulnerable subpopulation.
Dushoff J, Plotkin JB, Viboud C, Simonsen L, Miller M, Loeb M, Earn DJ

PLoS medicine. 2007 May;4(5):e174
Using protein complexes to predict phenotypic effects of gene mutation.
Fraser HB, Plotkin JB

Genome biology. 2007;8(11):R252
Codon usage and selection on proteins.
Plotkin JB, Dushoff J, Desai MM, Fraser HB

Journal of molecular evolution. 2006 Nov;63(5):635-53
Seed dispersal and spatial pattern in tropical trees.
Seidler TG, Plotkin JB

PLoS biology. 2006 Oct;4(11):e344
Estimating selection pressures from limited comparative data.
Plotkin JB, Dushoff J, Desai MM, Fraser HB

Molecular biology and evolution. 2006 Aug;23(8):1457-9
Mortality due to influenza in the United States--an annualized regression approach using multiple-cause mortality data.
Dushoff J, Plotkin JB, Viboud C, Earn DJ, Simonsen L

American journal of epidemiology. 2006 Jan 15;163(2):181-7

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Joshua B Plotkin

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