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Emily Howerton

Princeton UniversityORCID 0000-0002-0639-3728Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Vaccine imprinting drives increased SARS-CoV-2 variant infection in children

Timothy S. Johnston, Rahul Subramanian, Wakinyan Benhamou, Emily Howerton, Robin Schlesinger, Stephen D. Schmidt, Rachel Kazmierski, Mike Castro, Bob C. Lin, Amy R. Henry, Sarah C. Smith, Jesmine Roberts-Torres, Farida Laboune, I‐Ting Teng, Shuishu Wang, , Daniel C. Douek

The paper shows that vaccine imprinting influences susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 variants in children by linking immune history, antibody neutralization, and infection risk.

bioRxiv · Aug 17, 2026 · PreprintImmunology

Susceptible host dynamics explain pathogen resilience to perturbations

Sang Woo Park, Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Emily Howerton, Bryan Thomas Grenfell, Sarah E. Cobey

The paper quantifies how respiratory pathogens return to pre-pandemic dynamics after interventions, finding that susceptible population replenishment rates determine their resilience to perturbations.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Jan 2, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology