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Alex Washburne
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Author 270
Preprint Author 35

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Evolutionary Studies
Virology
Infectious Diseases
Statistics
Computational Biology
Ecology
Mathematical Biology
Microbiology

Alex D Washburne

PeerJ Author

Summary

Hey there! I'm a mathematical biologist and ecological data analyst with a love of the field. Broadly speaking, I'm interested in damn near everything. My research topics range from evolutionary theory and the levels of selection problem, the nature of stochasticity in fluctuating communities and its impact on stabilizing mechanisms, phylogenetic-based analyses of ecological (especially microbiome) datasets, mathematical finance, and more. Fields of science, in my opinion, are arbitrary boundaries, so what seems like interdisciplinary work is actually just my own discipline: looking for cool questions and answering them with whatever mathematical, statistical, or empirical tools we need (and inventing the tools if I have to).

Biodiversity Biogeography Computational Biology Conservation Biology Data Science Ecology Ecosystem Science Environmental Sciences Epidemiology Evolutionary Studies Mathematical Biology Microbiology Paleontology Parasitology Statistics Taxonomy

Past or current institution affiliations

Duke University

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Preprints 1
  • Questions 1
November 28, 2018
Taxonomic patterns in the zoonotic potential of mammalian viruses
Alex D. Washburne, Daniel E. Crowley, Daniel J. Becker, Kevin J. Olival, Matthew Taylor, Vincent J. Munster, Raina K. Plowright
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5979 PubMed 30519509
February 9, 2017
Phylogenetic factorization of compositional data yields lineage-level associations in microbiome datasets
Alex D. Washburne, Justin D. Silverman, Jonathan W. Leff, Dominic J. Bennett, John L. Darcy, Sayan Mukherjee, Noah Fierer, Lawrence A. David
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2969 PubMed 28289558
January 3, 2017 - Version: 1
Phylogenetic factorization of compositional data yields lineage-level associations in microbiome datasets
Alex D Washburne, Justin D Silverman, Jonathan W Leff, Dominic J Bennett, John L Darcy, Sayan Mukherjee, Noah Fierer, Lawrence A David
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2685v1

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