Chieh‐Hsi Wu

MASCOT-Skyline jointly infers spatial and temporal transmission dynamics of infectious diseases using a structured coalescent skyline approach, revealing biases in existing phylogeographic methods.

This paper evaluates how much smoothing priors affect demographic estimates in Bayesian phylogenetics and introduces a statistic to measure their impact.

Severe S. aureus infections arise from the nasal microbiome through adaptive evolution, with specific mutations enriched in infecting bacteria compared to colonizing ones.

The paper uses ZIKV genomes to estimate the origin and spread of Zika virus in Brazil and the Americas, providing a timeframe for baseline microcephaly rates.