Publications

Society: Protect privacy of mobile data.

Author(s): Buckee CO|Journal: Nature|PMID: 25279910| October 2014

Commentary: containing the ebola outbreak – the potential and challenge of mobile network data.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Buckee CO, Bengtsson L, Wetter E, Lu X, Tatem AJ|Journal: PLoS Curr|PMID: 25642369| September 2014

A Plasmodium falciparum histone deacetylase regulates antigenic variation and gametocyte conversion.

Author(s): Coleman BI, Skillman KM, Jiang RHY, Childs LM, Altenhofen LM, Ganter M, Leung Y, Goldowitz I, Kafsack BFC, Marti M, Llinás M, Buckee CO, Duraisingh MT|Journal: Cell Host Microbe|PMID: 25121747| August 2014

The asexual forms of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum are adapted for chronic persistence in human red blood cells, continuously…

Quantifying travel behavior for infectious disease research: a comparison of data from surveys and mobile phones.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Stresman G, Eagle N, Stevenson J, Owaga C, Marube E, Bousema T, Drakeley C, Cox J, Buckee CO|Journal: Sci Rep|PMID: 25022440| July 2014

Human travel impacts the spread of infectious diseases across spatial and temporal scales, with broad implications for the biological and…

Pathogen selection drives nonoverlapping associations between HLA loci.

Author(s): Penman BS, Ashby B, Buckee CO, Gupta S|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 24225852| November 2013

Pathogen-mediated selection is commonly invoked as an explanation for the exceptional polymorphism of the HLA gene cluster, but its role…

Plasmodium falciparum var gene expression homogeneity as a marker of the host-parasite relationship under different levels of naturally acquired immunity to malaria.

Author(s): Warimwe GM, Recker M, Kiragu EW, Buckee CO, Wambua J, Musyoki JN, Marsh K, Bull PC|Journal: PLoS One|PMID: 23922996| July 2013

Acquired immunity to Plasmodium falciparum infection causes a change from frequent, sometimes life-threatening, malaria in young children to asymptomatic, chronic…

A sticky situation: the unexpected stability of malaria elimination.

Author(s): Smith DL, Cohen JM, Chiyaka C, Johnston G, Gething PW, Gosling R, Buckee CO, Laxminarayan R, Hay SI, Tatem AJ|Journal: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci|PMID: 23798693| June 2013

Malaria eradication involves eliminating malaria from every country where transmission occurs. Current theory suggests that the post-elimination challenges of remaining…

Modeling the human infectious reservoir for malaria control: does heterogeneity matter?

Author(s): Hansen E, Buckee CO|Journal: Trends Parasitol|PMID: 23597499| June 2013

The complex biological relationships underlying malaria transmission make it difficult to predict the impact of interventions. Mathematical models simplify these…

The impact of biases in mobile phone ownership on estimates of human mobility.

Author(s): Wesolowski A, Eagle N, Noor AM, Snow RW, Buckee CO|Journal: J R Soc Interface|PMID: 23389897| February 2013

Mobile phone data are increasingly being used to quantify the movements of human populations for a wide range of social,…

A network approach to analyzing highly recombinant malaria parasite genes.

Author(s): Larremore DB, Clauset A, Buckee CO|Journal: PLoS Comput Biol|PMID: 24130474| January 2013

The var genes of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum present a challenge to population geneticists due to their extreme…