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Molly M. McDonough

Chicago State UniversityORCID 0000-0002-4890-7993Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Organism:rat· 1

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Adam W. FergusoniD· 3 shared Maya M. JumaniD· 2 shared Aren M. Gunderson· 1 shared Ariel Caudle· 1 shared Audrey M. MathenyiD· 1 shared Barbara A. HaniD· 1 shared Bertin Murhabale CisirikaiD· 1 shared Bruce D. PattersoniD· 1 shared

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Historic and contemporary museum specimens implicate Northern Red-backed Vole (Clethrionomys rutilus) as borealpox host as early as 1990s

Maya M. Juman, Jeffrey B. Doty, Clint N. Morgan, Audrey M. Matheny, Ariel Caudle, Marissa Breslin, Natalie Hamilton, Aren M. Gunderson, Katherine Newell, Julia H. Rogers, Victoria A. Balta, Italo B. Zecca, Florence Whitehill, Faisal Syed Minhaj, Molly M. McDonough, , Link E. Olson

The study identifies Northern Red-backed Voles as potential BRPV hosts using museum specimens and field samples, showing BRPV presence since at least 1998.

bioRxiv · Mar 25, 2026 · PreprintEcology

Museum collections and machine learning guide discovery of novel coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses

Maya M. Juman, Molly M. McDonough, Adam W. Ferguson, Barbara A. Han, Frank Bapeamoni, Bertin Murhabale Cisirika, Charles M. Kahindo, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Steven Michael Goodman, Bruce D. Patterson, Gregory F. Albery, Colin J. Carlson, Daniel J. Becker

The paper uses machine learning to screen museum tissues for novel coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses, recovering sequences from archived samples and identifying new host species.

bioRxiv · Sep 11, 2025 · PreprintEcology

Prospecting for zoonotic pathogens using targeted DNA enrichment

Egie Elisha Enabulele, Winka Le Clecʼh, E. Roberts, Cody W. Thompson, Molly M. McDonough, Adam W. Ferguson, Robert D. Bradley, Timothy J. C. Anderson, Roy N. Platt

The paper develops a targeted DNA enrichment method using RNA probes to identify zoonotic pathogens in museum-archived tissues, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting bacterial species.

Emerging infectious diseases · Jul 13, 2023Peer-reviewedGenomics