Coombs Lab

Using Koopman mode decomposition (dynamic mode decomposition) with a mode overlap matrix to find functional communities in networks of coupled Kuramoto oscillators, which frequency/phase lock fastest: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

"Neutral bots probe political bias on social media" rdcu.be/cy12P

How exactly does a fractional reaction-subdiffusion equation relate to its diffusion counterpart? See here in the case of having affine reaction terms: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

"Beyond R0: heterogeneity in secondary infections and probabilistic epidemic forecasting" #d1e3331" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Modelling the infectivity with time-dependent kernels taking containment measures into account, some of which are pushing the epidemic threshold up (a complexity science and asymptotic scaling perspective): journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

"Models of SIV rebound after treatment interruption that involve multiple reactivation events" journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

Last week, the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners were announced. The Ig Nobel Prize goes to research that makes you laugh first and then think. improbable.com/ig-about/winne… @improbresearch

Very cool paper on evolutionary loss of adaptive immunity in anglerfish: The immunogenetics of sexual parasitism science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…

Mathematical Model Shows How Sleep May Affect Amyloid-β Fibrillization sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Noise amplification through nearly parallel eigenvectors of linearisation about resting state and strong separation of time scales: possible consequences for self-organization in noisy excitable systems? journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

Selection of spatiotemporal patterns in arrays of spatially distributed oscillators indirectly coupled via a diffusive environment doi.org/10.1063/1.5058…

Undulation enables gliding in flying snakes doi.org/10.1038/s41567…

SARS-CoV-2 T-cell epitopes define heterologous and COVID-19-induced T-cell recognition researchsquare.com/article/rs-353…

To mask or not to mask: Modeling the potential for face mask use by th... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"A mathematical model describing the localization and spread of influenza A virus infection within the human respiratory tract" journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

If containment is not possible, how do we minimize mortality for COVID-19 and other emerging infectious disease outbreaks? medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Accelerated viral dynamics in bat cell lines, with implications for zoonotic emergence doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…