Search Results - "Magee, Andrew"
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Scalable gradients enable Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling for phylodynamic inference under episodic birth-death-sampling models
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-03-2024)“…Birth-death models play a key role in phylodynamic analysis for their interpretation in terms of key epidemiological parameters. In particular, models with…”
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Locally adaptive Bayesian birth-death model successfully detects slow and rapid rate shifts
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-10-2020)“…Birth-death processes have given biologists a model-based framework to answer questions about changes in the birth and death rates of lineages in a…”
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Rapidly changing speciation and extinction rates can be inferred in spite of nonidentifiability
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-02-2023)“…The birth-death model is commonly used to infer speciation and extinction rates by fitting the model to phylogenetic trees with exclusively extant taxa…”
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19 Dubious Ways to Compute the Marginal Likelihood of a Phylogenetic Tree Topology
Published in Systematic biology (01-03-2020)“…The marginal likelihood of a model is a key quantity for assessing the evidence provided by the data in support of a model. The marginal likelihood is the…”
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Activation of the innate immune receptor Dectin-1 upon formation of a ‘phagocytic synapse’
Published in Nature (London) (28-04-2011)“…How the innate immune system spots fungal pathogens Invading microbes are detected and ingested by white blood cells known as phagocytes. To do this they must…”
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The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (26-08-2022)“…Understanding the circumstances that lead to pandemics is important for their prevention. We analyzed the genomic diversity of severe acute respiratory…”
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Comparison of structural differences between yeast β-glucan sourced from different strains of saccharomyces cerevisiae and processed using proprietary manufacturing processes
Published in Food chemistry (15-01-2022)“…•Beta-glucans investigated in this note are from four different yeast strains.•Chemical characterization studies reveal striking difference in their chemical…”
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A new island-scale tropical cyclone outlook for southwest Pacific nations and territories
Published in Scientific reports (21-07-2020)“…The southwest Pacific (SWP) region is vulnerable to tropical cyclone (TC) related impacts which adversely affect people, infrastructure and economies across…”
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On the surprising effectiveness of a simple matrix exponential derivative approximation, with application to global SARS-CoV-2
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-01-2024)“…The continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) is the mathematical workhorse of evolutionary biology. Learning CTMC model parameters using modern, gradient-based…”
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Representation of a microstructure with bimodal grain size distribution through crystal plasticity and cohesive interface modeling
Published in Mechanics of materials (01-03-2015)“…•Modeled bimodal, heterogeneous material using crystal plasticity and cohesive interface models.•Extracted crystal plasticity constants for both phases from…”
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A new approach for location-specific seasonal outlooks of typhoon and super typhoon frequency across the Western North Pacific region
Published in Scientific reports (30-09-2021)“…With an average of 26 tropical cyclones (TCs) per year, the western North Pacific (WNP) is the most active TC basin in the world. Considerable exposure lies in…”
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Using Indicators of ENSO, IOD, and SAM to Improve Lead Time and Accuracy of Tropical Cyclone Outlooks for Australia
Published in Journal of applied meteorology and climatology (01-11-2020)“…Catastrophic impacts associated with tropical cyclone (TC) activity mean that the accurate and timely provision of TC outlooks are important to people, places,…”
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The dawn of open access to phylogenetic data
Published in PloS one (24-10-2014)“…The scientific enterprise depends critically on the preservation of and open access to published data. This basic tenet applies acutely to phylogenies…”
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Robustness of Phylogenetic Inference to Model Misspecification Caused by Pairwise Epistasis
Published in Molecular biology and evolution (01-10-2021)“…Abstract Likelihood-based phylogenetic inference posits a probabilistic model of character state change along branches of a phylogenetic tree. These models…”
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CRABS: Congruent rate analyses in birth–death scenarios
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-12-2022)“…Diversification rates inferred from phylogenies are not identifiable if the rates are allowed to vary freely over time. There are infinitely many combinations…”
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The influence of large-scale climate modes on tropical cyclone tracks in the southwest Pacific
Published in Natural hazards (Dordrecht) (01-09-2023)“…Tropical cyclones (TCs) impact the economy, properties, lives and infrastructure of island nations and territories of the southwest Pacific (SWP), accounting…”
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Horseshoe‐based Bayesian nonparametric estimation of effective population size trajectories
Published in Biometrics (01-09-2020)“…Phylodynamics is an area of population genetics that uses genetic sequence data to estimate past population dynamics. Modern state‐of‐the‐art Bayesian…”
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Accelerated evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer
Published in Nature communications (28-08-2023)“…The zoonotic origin of the COVID-19 pandemic virus highlights the need to fill the vast gaps in our knowledge of SARS-CoV-2 ecology and evolution in non-human…”
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Decadal variability of tropical cyclogenesis and decay in the southwest Pacific
Published in International journal of climatology (01-04-2020)“…Tropical cyclones (TCs) represent a significant hazard to the southwest Pacific (SWP) region, impacting on properties, lives and infrastructure, accounting for…”
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