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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Joshua B. Plotkin is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences with a focus on evolutionary game theory, cooperation, and related interdisciplinary fields. Over their career, they have contributed significantly to studies in sociology and political science, genetics, statistical and nonlinear physics, safety research, as well as public health and environmental health.

Their main research topics include:

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
  • Game Theory and Applications
  • Plant and Animal Studies

Joshua B. Plotkin has published extensively with recent papers that illustrate the breadth of their work:

  • Evolutionary games with environmental feedbacks, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Evolution of prosocial behaviours in multilayer populations, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Evolution of cooperation with asymmetric social interactions, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A machine-vision approach for automated pain measurement at millisecond timescales, 2020, eLife
  • Strategy evolution on dynamic networks, 2023, Nature Computational Science

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Alex McAvoy
  • Qi Su
  • Yoichiro Mori
  • Taylor A. Kessinger
  • Erol Akçay

Joshua B. Plotkin has published many articles in leading venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Their work has intersected fields including sociology and political science, genetics, and public health, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding evolutionary dynamics and cooperative behavior in social and biological systems.

In 2009, Joshua B. Plotkin was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Synonymous but not the same: the causes and consequences of codon bias.

    Joshua B. Plotkin;Grzegorz Kudla

  • Coding-sequence determinants of gene expression in Escherichia coli.

    Grzegorz Kudla;Andrew W. Murray;David Tollervey;Joshua B. Plotkin

  • The Population Genetics of dN/dS

    Sergey Kryazhimskiy;Joshua B. Plotkin

  • Seed Dispersal and Spatial Pattern in Tropical Trees

    Tristram G Seidler;Joshua B Plotkin

  • The evolution of syntactic communication

    Martin A. Nowak;Joshua B. Plotkin;Vincent A. A. Jansen

  • Rate-Limiting Steps in Yeast Protein Translation

    Premal Shah;Yang Ding;Malwina Niemczyk;Grzegorz Kudla

  • Dynamical resonance can account for seasonality of influenza epidemics

    Jonathan Dushoff;Joshua B. Plotkin;Simon A. Levin;David J. D. Earn

  • Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record

    Hélène Morlon;Todd L. Parsons;Joshua B. Plotkin

  • Species-area curves, spatial aggregation, and habitat specialization in tropical forests.

    Joshua B. Plotkin;Matthew D. Potts;Nandi Leslie;N. Manokaran

  • Improved Ribosome-Footprint and mRNA Measurements Provide Insights into Dynamics and Regulation of Yeast Translation

    David E. Weinberg;Premal Shah;Stephen W. Eichhorn;Jeffrey A. Hussmann

  • Mutational robustness can facilitate adaptation

    Jeremy A. Draghi;Todd L. Parsons;Günter P. Wagner;Joshua B. Plotkin

  • Mortality due to Influenza in the United States—An Annualized Regression Approach Using Multiple-Cause Mortality Data

    Jonathan Dushoff;Joshua B. Plotkin;Cecile Viboud;David J. D. Earn

  • Redundancy, antiredundancy, and the robustness of genomes

    David C. Krakauer;Joshua B. Plotkin

  • Hemagglutinin sequence clusters and the antigenic evolution of influenza A virus.

    Joshua B. Plotkin;Jonathan Dushoff;Simon A. Levin

  • Consequences of defaunation for a tropical tree community

    Rhett D Harrison;Rhett D Harrison;Sylvester Tan;Joshua B. Plotkin;Ferry Slik

  • Tissue-specific codon usage and the expression of human genes

    Joshua B. Plotkin;Harlan Robins;Arnold J. Levine

  • From extortion to generosity, evolution in the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma

    Alexander J. Stewart;Joshua B. Plotkin

  • HABITAT PATTERNS IN TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS: A COMPARISON OF 105 PLOTS IN NORTHWEST BORNEO

    Matthew D. Potts;Peter S. Ashton;Les S. Kaufman;Joshua B. Plotkin

  • Cluster Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Malaysian Tree Species

    Joshua B. Plotkin;Jérôme Chave;Peter S. Ashton

  • Improved Ribosome-Footprint and mRNA Measurements Provide Insights into Dynamics and Regulation of Yeast Translation

    David E. Weinberg;Premal Shah;Jeffrey A. Hussmann;Joshua B. Plotkin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Dushoff
Jonathan Dushoff McMaster University
Michael M. Desai
Michael M. Desai Harvard University
Hunter B. Fraser
Hunter B. Fraser Stanford University
Peter S. Ashton
Peter S. Ashton Harvard University
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Martin A. Nowak
Martin A. Nowak Harvard University
Sridhar Hannenhalli
Sridhar Hannenhalli National Institutes of Health
Lone Simonsen
Lone Simonsen Roskilde University
Raul Andino
Raul Andino University of California, San Francisco

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