News
2025
- Forthcoming: New paper! Integrating viral kinetics into routine outbreak surveillance: challenges, opportunities, and lessons from COVID-19 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B with James Hay, Daniel Larremore, and Anjalika Aatresh.
- Dec 12: New paper! Diagnostic testing as a public health intervention: challenges and opportunities in Future Virology with Kristin Nelson and Tyler Brown.
- Oct: Stephen received the Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the University of Colorado Alumni Association.
- Jun 5: Stephen will be giving a virtual talk at the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Modelling Perspectives meeting.
- May: New grant awarded with PI Cresten Mansfeldt: “The Watering Whole: Forming a large-scale research collaboration focusing on understanding the modern people, materials, and contaminants flowing with the One Water Cycle” (CU Boulder CRT).
- Apr 2-4: Stephen will be giving a talk at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Microbiology Colloquium.
2024
- Oct 5: Stephen will be giving a keynote talk at the Boettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Innovation Summit in Denver, CO.
- Oct 1: Welcome Liza Hadley, joining as a postdoctoral researcher!
- Sep: New paper! Surveillance strategies for the detection of new pathogen variants across epidemiological contexts in PLOS Computational Biology with Kirstin Roster, Yonatan Grad, and Daniel Larremore.
- July 24: New grant awarded with Co-PI Daniel Larremore: “Quantifying the design of effective testing-based policies through infection trajectory modeling” (NSF/CDC).
- Jul: New paper! Infectious disease surveillance needs for the United States: Lessons from COVID-19 in Frontiers in Public Health with Marc Lipsitch, Yonatan Grad, and others.
- June 15: Welcome Maia Richards-Dinger, PhD candidate working in the lab!
- May: New paper! Spatiotemporal trends in Group A Streptococcal pharyngitis in the United States in Clinical Infectious Diseases with David Kline and others.
- Mar 21: New paper! Drivers of geographic patterns in outpatient antibiotic prescribing in the United States in Clinical Infectious Diseases with Kirstin Roster (co-first author), Rachel Petherbridge, Ateev Mehrotra, Michael Barnett, and Yonatan Grad.
- Mar 14: New paper! The impact of vaccines and behavior on US cumulative deaths from COVID-19 in the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity with Andrew Atkeson. See also the writeup by Lisa Marshall in CU Boulder Today.
- Jan 12: Welcome Carolyn Fulton, PhD candidate working in the lab!
2023
- Oct 29: New paper! Viral kinetics of sequential SARS-CoV-2 infections in Nature Communications with James Hay, Joseph Fauver, Christina Mack, Caroline Tai, Deverick Anderson, David Ho, Nathan Grubaugh, and Yonatan Grad.
- Oct 23: Stephen will be presenting two posters at IDWeek in Boston, MA
- Sep 30: Welcome Arindrajit Paul and Nour Rahal-Arabi, MS candidates working in the lab!
- Sep 19: Stephen will be giving a virtual talk on “Virtue in caring for the individual and caring for the collective” at the Kern National Network for Flourishin in Medicine Conference.
- Mar 27: Stephen will be giving a talk on introductory epidemiological modeling at the MIDAS Diversity Conference in Boston.
2022
- Oct 17: Stephen will be giving a guest lecture for Advanced Methods in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Boston University.
Talk: Understanding SARS-CoV-2 using simple models: between-host and within-host dynamics - Oct 11: Our manuscript on the impact of chronic comorobidities on pediatric antibiotic prescribing is now out in CID!
- Sep 7-9: Stephen will be at the MIDAS Network Annual Meeting.
- Aug 10-13: Stephen will be at the Contagion on Complex Social Systems workshop at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Talk: Linking viral kinetics with disease transmission and control