Sinead E. Morris

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Columbia University Medical Center

Biography

I’m a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University. I work at the intersection of mathematical modeling, immunology, and infectious diseases.

Interests

Mathematical modeling
Immunology
Disease ecology & epidemiology
Cross-scale dynamics

Education

PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2018

Princeton University
Msci in Mathematics, 2013

University of Glasgow

Skills

Math modeling

Data analysis

Software design

Experience

Postdoc

Columbia University Medical Center

Jul 2018 – Present New York, NY

Supervised by Prof. Andrew Yates

Projects include:

HIV dynamics in infants on antiretroviral treatment
Population dynamics of memory T cells
Modeling T cell responses to influenza infection

PhD student

Princeton University

Aug 2013 – Jun 2018 Princeton, NJ

Supervised by Prof. Bryan Grenfell

Projects included:

Within-host dynamics of measles
Spatial spread of seasonal influenza
Modeling an outbreak of dolphin morbillivirus (DMV)
Unravelling the impact of within-host immune responses on population dynamics

Recent publications

PA Szabo*, P Dogra*, JI Gray*, SB Wells*, TJ Connors, SP Weisberg, I Krupska, R Matsumoto, MML Poon, E Idzikowski, SE Morris, C Pasin, AJ Yates, A Ku, M Chait, J Davis-Porada, J Zhou, M Steinle, S Mackay, A Saqi, M Baldwin, PA Sims, DL Farber (2020). Analysis of respiratory and systemic immune responses in COVID-19 reveals mechanisms of disease pathogenesis. medRxiv.

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CM Saad-Roy*, CE Wagner*, RE Baker, SE Morris, J Farrar, AL Graham, SA Levin, MJ Mina, CJE Metcalf, BT Grenfell (2020). Immune life history, vaccination, and the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 over the next 5 years. Science.

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SE Morris, L Dziobek-Garrett, R Strehlau, J Schröter, S Shiau, AJN Anelone, M Paximadis, RJ de Boer, EJ Abrams, CT Tiemessen, L Kuhn, AJ Yates (2020). Quantifying the dynamics of HIV decline in perinatally-infected neonates on antiretroviral therapy. JAIDS.

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