Select Publications
⦁ Davies N, ... Washburne AD, ... Edmunds WJ. 2021. Estimating the transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B 1.1.7 in
England. Science
⦁ Fu W... Washburne AD, ... Alm EJ. 2020. SARS-CoV-2 titers in wastewater are higher than expected from clinically confirmed cases
mSystems
⦁ Silverman JD*, Hupert N, & Washburne AD*. 2020. Using influenza-like illness to estimate state-specific prevalence of
SARS-CoV-2 in the United States. Science Translational Medicine
⦁ Washburne AD, Crowley DE, Manlove K, Becker DJ, Childs M, Plowright RK. 2019. Percolation models of pathogen spillover.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
⦁ Becker DJ, Washburne AD, Faust CL, Mordecai EA, Plowright RK (2019) The problem of scale in the prediction and management
of pathogen spillover. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
⦁ Morton JT, Marotz C, Washburne AD, Silverman J, Zaramela LS, Edlund A, Zengler A, Knight R. (2019) Estimating microbial
composition measurement standards with reference frames." Nature Communications
⦁ Washburne AD, Silverman JD, Morton JT, Becker DJ, Crowley DE, Mukherjee S, David LA, & Plowright RK. (2019)
Phylofactorization: a graph partitioning algorithm to identify phylogenetic scales of ecological data. Ecological Monographs 00
(00):e01353.
⦁ Rocca, J. D., Simonin, M., Blaszczak, J. R., Ernakovich, J. G., Gibbons, S. M., Midani, F. S., & Washburne, A. D. (2018). The
Microbiome Stress Project: towards a global meta-analysis of environmental stressors and their effects on microbial communities.
Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, 3272.
⦁ Washburne AD, Crowley DE, Becker DJ, Olival KJ, Taylor M, Munster VJ, Plowright RK (2018). Taxonomic patterns in the
zoonotic potential of mammalian viruses. PeerJ 6:e5979
⦁ Faust K., Bauchinger F., Laroche B., de Buyl S., Lahti L., Washburne A. D., Gonze D., Widder S. (2018). Signatures of ecological
processes in microbial community time series. Microbiome, 6:120
⦁ Washburne, A. D.*, Morton, J. T.*, Sanders, J., McDonald, D., Zhu, Q., Oliverio, A. M., & Knight, R. (2018). Methods for
phylogenetic analysis of microbiome data. Nature Microbiology, 3(6), 652.
⦁ Oliverio, A. M., Power J. F., Washburne A., Cary S. C., Stott M. B. & Fierer N. (2018) The ecology and diversity of microbial
eukaryotes in geothermal springs. The ISME journal
⦁ Vázquez-Baeza, Y., Gonzalez, A., Xu, Z. Z., Washburne, A. D., Herfarth, H. H., Sartor, R. B., & Knight, R. (2017). Guiding
longitudinal sampling in IBD cohorts. Gut, gutjnl-2017.
⦁ Washburne AD, Silverman JA, Leff J, Bennett DJ, Darcy JL, Mukherjee S, Fierer N, David LA (2017) Phylogenetic Factorization
of Microbiome Datasets. PeerJ 5:e2969
⦁ Silverman JA, Washburne AD, Mukherjee S and David LA (2017) A phylogenetic transform enhances analysis of compositional
data. eLife 6:e21887
⦁ Washburne AD, Burby J & Lacker D (2016). Novel covariance-based neutrality test reveals competitive asymmetries in ecological
and economic systems. PLoS Computational Biology
⦁ Socolar, JB* & Washburne, AD* (2015). Prey population size modulates the effect of predation on prey diversity. American
Naturalist
⦁ Tarnita, CE*; Washburne, AD*; Sgro AE & Levin SA (2014). Spores and non-aggregating cells can explain coexistence of
genotypes in Dictyostelium discoideum. PNAS
*Co-First authors
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Research History
⦁ Microbiome consulting (2018-present)
⦁ Statistics, modeling & theory development for pathogen spillover, DARPA & Montana State University (2017-2020)
⦁ Financial data analysis and trading strategy development consulting (2016-present)
⦁ Statistical methods for microbiome data, Duke University with Diana Nemergut (2015-2017)
⦁ Theoretical ecology, Princeton University with Simon Levin (2010-2015)
⦁ Mathematical biology, University of New Mexico with Helen Wearing (2009-2010)
⦁ Comparative immunology, University of New Mexico with Eric S. Loker (2008-2009)
⦁ Evolution of protein biochemistry, Brandeis University with Greg Petsko (2007)
⦁ Marine biology - spatial structure of coral reefs, Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef) with Ursula Shepherd (2006)
⦁ Long-Term Ecological Research in community ecology, University of New Mexico with Blair Wolf (2005-2007)
⦁ Conservation biology, Estacion Cientifica de Charles Darwin with Howard Snell (2001)
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Teaching Experience
⦁ Theoretical Ecology (300-level)
⦁ Mathematical Modelling in Medicine (300-level)
⦁ Method & Logic in Quantitative Biology (400-500 level)
⦁ "Symmetry of Chemistry" for MCTP summer fellowship (400 level)
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Awards & Leadership Roles
⦁ CEO of mathematical, statistical, financial & epidemiological consulting company (2019-present)
⦁ DARPA director's award nomination for work on Raina Plowright's YFA (2018)
⦁ Princeton President's Fellowship in Science & Engineering (2010-2011)
⦁ NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2010-2013)
⦁ NSF-MCTP scholar (2009-2010)
⦁ ABRCMS prize for oral presentation in physics & mathematical sciences (2009)
⦁ SUNMARC featured student presentation (2009)
⦁ SACNAS prize for undergraduate poster presentation in mathematics (2008)
⦁ President of UNM Kappa Mu Epsilon (mathematics honor society) (2008-2010)
⦁ NIH-MARC scholar (2007-2009)
⦁ Dean's List, UNM (2007-2010)