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  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joshua S. Weitz is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with significant contributions in Environmental Science and Medicine. Within these main fields, their work covers subfields such as Ecology, Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, and Plant Science.

They have published extensively on topics including:

  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models

Joshua S. Weitz has several recent papers that have attracted notable attention. Key publications include:

  • "Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread" (2020) published in Nature Medicine
  • "Awareness-driven behavior changes can shift the shape of epidemics away from peaks and toward plateaus, shoulders, and oscillations" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Revisiting the rules of life for viruses of microorganisms" (2021) published in Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "The time scale of asymptomatic transmission affects estimates of epidemic potential in the COVID-19 outbreak" (2020) published in Epidemics
  • "Reconciling early-outbreak estimates of the basic reproductive number and its uncertainty: framework and applications to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak" (2020) published in Journal of The Royal Society Interface

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Stephen J. Beckett, Jonathan Dushoff, Sang Woo Park, David Demory, and Rogelio A. Rodriguez-Gonzalez.

The primary publication venues where Joshua S. Weitz frequently publishes are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • mSystems
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

They have contributed to the academic literature through book publications as well, including the book Asymptomatic, published in 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Joshua S. Weitz was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Re-examination of the "3/4-law" of metabolism.

    Peter Sheridan Dodds;Daniel H. Rothman;Joshua S. Weitz

  • Repeatability and Contingency in the Evolution of a Key Innovation in Phage Lambda

    Justin R. Meyer;Devin T. Dobias;Joshua S. Weitz;Jeffrey E. Barrick;Jeffrey E. Barrick

  • Robust estimation of microbial diversity in theory and in practice

    Bart Haegeman;Jérôme Hamelin;John Moriarty;Peter Neal

  • GiA Roots: software for the high throughput analysis of plant root system architecture

    Taras Galkovskyi;Yuriy Mileyko;Alexander Bucksch;Brad Moore

  • Imaging and Analysis Platform for Automatic Phenotyping and Trait Ranking of Plant Root Systems

    Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi;Olga Symonova;Yuriy Mileyko;Yueling Hao

  • The elemental composition of virus particles: implications for marine biogeochemical cycles

    Luis F. Jover;T. Chad Effler;Alison Buchan;Steven W. Wilhelm

  • Synergy between the Host Immune System and Bacteriophage Is Essential for Successful Phage Therapy against an Acute Respiratory Pathogen

    Dwayne R. Roach;Chung Yin Leung;Marine Henry;Eric Morello

  • Phage–bacteria infection networks

    Joshua S. Weitz;Timothée Poisot;Justin R. Meyer;Cesar O. Flores

  • Statistical structure of host-phage interactions.

    Cesar O. Flores;Justin R. Meyer;Sergi Valverde;Lauren Farr

  • Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances

    C.H. Wigington;D. Sonderegger;C.P.D. Brussaard;A. Buchan

  • 3D phenotyping and quantitative trait locus mapping identify core regions of the rice genome controlling root architecture

    Christopher N. Topp;Anjali S. Iyer-Pascuzzi;Jill T. Anderson;Cheng Ruei Lee

  • Image-Based High-Throughput Field Phenotyping of Crop Roots

    Alexander Bucksch;James Burridge;Larry M. York;Abhiram Das

  • Ocean viruses and their effects on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles

    Joshua S. Weitz;Steven W. Wilhelm

  • Coevolutionary arms races between bacteria and bacteriophage.

    J. S. Weitz;H. Hartman;S. A. Levin

  • Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread.

    Joshua S. Weitz;Stephen J. Beckett;Ashley R. Coenen;David Demory

  • A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes

    Joshua S Weitz;Charles A Stock;Steven W Wilhelm;Lydia Bourouiba

  • An oscillating tragedy of the commons in replicator dynamics with game-environment feedback

    Joshua S. Weitz;Ceyhun Eksin;Keith Paarporn;Sam P. Brown

  • Testing the metabolic theory of ecology

    Charles A. Price;Joshua S Weitz;Van M. Savage;Van M. Savage;James Stegen

  • Multi-scale structure and geographic drivers of cross-infection within marine bacteria and phages.

    Cesar O Flores;Sergi Valverde;Joshua S Weitz

  • Viral tagging reveals discrete populations in Synechococcus viral genome sequence space

    Li Deng;J. Cesar Ignacio-Espinoza;Ann C. Gregory;Bonnie T. Poulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Dushoff
Jonathan Dushoff McMaster University
Bryan T. Grenfell
Bryan T. Grenfell Princeton University
Steven W. Wilhelm
Steven W. Wilhelm University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Herbert Edelsbrunner
Herbert Edelsbrunner Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Sam P. Brown
Sam P. Brown Georgia Institute of Technology
Matthew B. Sullivan
Matthew B. Sullivan The Ohio State University
Jeff S. Shamma
Jeff S. Shamma University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benjamin M. Bolker
Benjamin M. Bolker McMaster University
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Corina P. D. Brussaard
Corina P. D. Brussaard Utrecht University

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