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  1. The durability of natural infection and vaccine-induced immunity against future infection by SARS-CoV-2

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Jeffrey Townsend

  2. Non-Coding Mutations in Urothelial Bladder Cancer: Biological and Clinical Relevance and Potential Utility as Biomarkers

    Article • Bladder Cancer, June 2020, IOS Press

    Jeffrey Townsend

  3. Wagging the long tail of drivers of prostate cancer

    Article • PLoS Genetics, January 2019, PLOS

    Jeffrey Townsend

  4. A traffic light for fungal sex

    Article • mBio, March 2016, ASM Journals

    Jeffrey Townsend

  5. The impact of incorporating molecular evolutionary model into predictions of phylogenetic signal and noise

    Article • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, April 2014, Frontiers

    Jeffrey Townsend

  6. Probabilistic uncertainty analysis of epidemiological modeling to guide public health intervention policy

    Article • Epidemics, March 2014, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  7. Detecting rare gene transfer events in bacterial populations

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2014, Frontiers

    Jeffrey Townsend

  8. Global Gene Expression and Focused Knockout Analysis Reveals Genes Associated with Fungal Fruiting Body Development in Neurospora crassa

    Article • Eukaryotic Cell, November 2013, ASM Journals

    Jeffrey Townsend

  9. Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Schistosomiasis Treatment for Reducing HIV Transmission in Africa – The Case of Zimbabwean Women

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, August 2013, PLOS

    Jeffrey Townsend

  10. Optimal targeting of seasonal influenza vaccination toward younger ages is robust to parameter uncertainty

    Article • Vaccine, June 2013, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  11. Yeast response to LA virus indicates coadapted global gene expression during mycoviral infection

    Article • FEMS Yeast Research, January 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jeffrey Townsend

  12. Evaluating Phylogenetic Informativeness as a Predictor of Phylogenetic Signal for Metazoan, Fungal, and Mammalian Phylogenomic Data Sets

    Article • BioMed Research International, January 2013, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Jeffrey Townsend

  13. Response to: The relative utility of sequence divergence and phylogenetic informativeness profiling in phylogenetic study design

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, January 2013, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  14. Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance through Targeted, Vaccine-Induced Replacement of Strains

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2012, PLOS

    Jeffrey Townsend, Professor Melinda M Pettigrew

  15. Analyses of expressed sequence tags in Neurosporareveal rapid evolution of genes associated with the early stages of sexual reproduction in fungi

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey Townsend

  16. Potential for Rabies Control through Dog Vaccination in Wildlife-Abundant Communities of Tanzania

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, August 2012, PLOS

    Jeffrey Townsend

  17. Transcriptome analyses during fruiting body formation in Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium verticillioides reflect species life history and ecology

    Article • Fungal Genetics and Biology, August 2012, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  18. Sex-specific gene expression during asexual development of Neurospora crassa

    Article • Fungal Genetics and Biology, July 2012, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  19. Differential impact of nutrition on developmental and metabolic gene expression during fruiting body development in Neurospora crassa

    Article • Fungal Genetics and Biology, May 2012, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  20. Codon Deviation Coefficient: a novel measure for estimating codon usage bias and its statistical significance

    Article • BMC Bioinformatics, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey Townsend

  21. Assessing the Probability of Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer Events in Bacterial Populations

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2012, Frontiers

    Jeffrey Townsend

  22. Phylogenetic informativeness profiling of 12 genes for 28 vertebrate taxa without divergence dates

    Article • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, August 2011, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  23. PhyDesign: an online application for profiling phylogenetic informativeness

    Article • BMC Evolutionary Biology, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey Townsend

  24. Tasting Soil Fungal Diversity with Earth Tongues: Phylogenetic Test of SATé Alignments for Environmental ITS Data

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2011, PLOS

    Jeffrey Townsend

  25. SIR2 and other genes are abundantly expressed in long-lived natural segregants for replicative aging of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • FEMS Yeast Research, March 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jeffrey Townsend

  26. Getting the Most Out of Your Fungal Microarray Data: Two Cost- and Time-Effective Methods

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey Townsend

  27. Multi-targeted priming for genome-wide gene expression assays

    Article • BMC Genomics, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey Townsend

  28. The filamentous fungal gene expression database (FFGED)

    Article • Fungal Genetics and Biology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  29. Evolving gene expression: from G to E to G×E

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, December 2009, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  30. Maximum-Likelihood Model Averaging To Profile Clustering of Site Types across Discrete Linear Sequences

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, June 2009, PLOS

    Jeffrey Townsend

  31. Factors affecting the reversal of antimicrobial-drug resistance

    Article • The Lancet Infectious Diseases, June 2009, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  32. Evolution of Reproductive Morphology in Leaf Endophytes

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2009, PLOS

    Jeffrey Townsend

  33. HCLS 2.0/3.0: Health care and life sciences data mashup using Web 2.0/3.0

    Article • Journal of Biomedical Informatics, October 2008, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  34. The Phylogenetic Informativeness of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Sequences for Reconstructing the Vertebrate Tree

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey Townsend

  35. Sleuthing the difference a nucleotide can make

    Article • Molecular Ecology, June 2008, Wiley

    Jeffrey Townsend

  36. Quantifying variation in gene expression

    Article • Molecular Ecology, June 2007, Wiley

    Jeffrey Townsend

  37. Population structure and gene evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • FEMS Yeast Research, August 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jeffrey Townsend

  38. Ecological and evolutionary genomics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • Molecular Ecology, February 2006, Wiley

    Jeffrey Townsend

  39. Horizontal gene transfer, genome innovation and evolution

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, August 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey Townsend, Professor Johann Peter Gogarten

  40. Designing Experiments Using Spotted Microarrays to Detect Gene Regulation Differences Within and Among Species

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Jeffrey Townsend

  41. Monitoring and modeling horizontal gene transfer

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, August 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jeffrey Townsend

  42. Gene expression profiling in evolutionary genetics

    Article • January 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Jeffrey Townsend

  43. Biodiversity: Exploring Values and Priorities in Conservation . By Dan L  Perlman and Glenn  Adelson. Oxford and Malden (Massachusetts): Blackwell Science. $49.95 (paper). ix + 182 p + 15 pl; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐86542‐439‐X. 1997.

    Article • The Quarterly Review of Biology, September 2003, University of Chicago Press

    Jeffrey Townsend

  44. Manifold anomalies in gene expression in a vineyard isolate of Saccharomyces cerevisiae revealed by DNA microarray analysis

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2000, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Jeffrey Townsend

  45. Solvent Accessibility and Purifying Selection Within Proteins of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, February 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Jeffrey Townsend