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Dominik Wodarz is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research intersects multiple disciplines within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Wodarz's work often focuses on infectious diseases, evolution, and mathematical biology, exploring complex biological and epidemiological systems through modeling and simulation.

The scientist has contributed significantly to topics including:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Mathematical Biology Tumor Growth
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Frequent collaborators include Natalia L. Komarova, Jesse Kreger, Luis M. Schang, Justin R. Pritchard, and Wen-Jian Chung. The partnership with Komarova is particularly notable, with 42 documented coauthored works.

Wodarz's publications appear regularly in several scientific journals. Key venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Journal of Theoretical Biology

Among recent publications are:

  • Patterns of the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world: exponential versus power laws (2020), Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Latency reversal plus natural killer cells diminish HIV reservoir in vivo (2022), Nature Communications
  • The myogenesis program drives clonal selection and drug resistance in rhabdomyosarcoma (2022), Developmental Cell
  • Patterns of the COVID19 pandemic spread around the world: exponential vs power laws (2020), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Network models and the interpretation of prolonged infection plateaus in the COVID19 pandemic (2021), Epidemics

Wodarz's academic focus includes genetics and modeling approaches to infectious diseases, as well as public health and virology. This broad scope allows for multidisciplinary exploration, especially related to HIV and COVID-19 epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Drug resistance in cancer: Principles of emergence and prevention

    Natalia L. Komarova;Dominik Wodarz

  • Compromised Influenza Virus-Specific CD8+-T-Cell Memory in CD4+-T-Cell-Deficient Mice

    Gabrielle T. Belz;Dominik Wodarz;Gabriela Diaz;Martin A. Nowak

  • Mathematical models of HIV pathogenesis and treatment

    Dominik Wodarz;Martin A. Nowak

  • Role of CD8+ Lymphocytes in Control of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Resistance to Rechallenge after Transient Early Antiretroviral Treatment

    Jeffrey D. Lifson;Jeffrey L. Rossio;Michael Piatak;Thomas Parks

  • Specific therapy regimes could lead to long-term immunological control of HIV.

    Dominik Wodarz;Martin A. Nowak

  • Curcumin mediates chemosensitization to 5-fluorouracil through miRNA-induced suppression of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in chemoresistant colorectal cancer.

    Shusuke Toden;Yoshinaga Okugawa;Thomas Jascur;Dominik Wodarz

  • Computational Biology of Cancer: Lecture Notes and Mathematical Modeling

    Dominik Wodarz;Natalia L. Komarova

  • The 2019 mathematical oncology roadmap.

    Russell C Rockne;Andrea Hawkins-Daarud;Kristin R Swanson;Kristin R Swanson;James P Sluka;James P Sluka

  • Viruses as antitumor weapons: defining conditions for tumor remission.

    Dominik Wodarz

  • Hepatitis C virus dynamics and pathology: the role of CTL and antibody responses.

    Dominik Wodarz

  • The importance of lytic and nonlytic immune responses in viral infections

    Dominik Wodarz;Jan Pravsgaard Christensen;Allan Randrup Thomsen

  • Killer cell dynamics

    Dominik Wodarz

  • Killer cell dynamics : mathematical and computational approaches to immunology

    Dominik Wodarz

  • Multiploid Inheritance of HIV-1 during Cell-to-Cell Infection

    Armando Del Portillo;Joseph Tripodi;Vesna Najfeld;Dominik Wodarz

  • Persistent Virus Infection despite Chronic Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Activation in Gamma Interferon-Deficient Mice Infected with Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus

    Christina Bartholdy;Jan Pravsgaard Christensen;Dominik Wodarz;Allan Randrup Thomsen

  • Containment of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: Cellular Immune Responses and Protection from Rechallenge following Transient Postinoculation Antiretroviral Treatment

    Jeffrey D. Lifson;Jeffrey L. Rossio;Ramy Arnaout;Li Li

  • Dynamics of Cancer: Mathematical Foundations of Oncology

    Dominik Wodarz;Natalia L. Komarova

  • ODE models for oncolytic virus dynamics.

    Natalia L. Komarova;Dominik Wodarz

  • The role of antigen-independent persistence of memory cytotoxic T lymphocytes.

    Dominik Wodarz;Robert M. May;Martin A. Nowak

  • HIV-1 dynamics revisited: biphasic decay by cytotoxic T lymphocyte killing?

    Ramy A. Arnaout;Martin A. Nowak;Dominik Wodarz

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin A. Nowak
Martin A. Nowak Harvard University
Ajay Goel
Ajay Goel City Of Hope National Medical Center
Allan Randrup Thomsen
Allan Randrup Thomsen University of Copenhagen
C. Richard Boland
C. Richard Boland University of California, San Diego
Vincent A. A. Jansen
Vincent A. A. Jansen Royal Holloway University of London
Charles R. M. Bangham
Charles R. M. Bangham Imperial College London
Jan Pravsgaard Christensen
Jan Pravsgaard Christensen University of Copenhagen
Alun L. Lloyd
Alun L. Lloyd North Carolina State University
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman University of Oxford
Jeffrey D. Lifson
Jeffrey D. Lifson Leidos (United States)

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