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 neonates on ART
Population dynamics of tissue-resident memory T-cells

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 influenza and dolphin morbillivurs (DMV)

Select publications

CM Saad-Roy*, CE Wagner*, RE Baker, SE Morris, J Farrar, AL Graham, SA Levin, CJE Metcalf, BT Grenfell (2020). Immuno-epidemiological life-history and the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 over the next five years. medrxiv.

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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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SE Morris, L Dziobek-Garrett, AJ Yates (2020). ushr: Understanding suppression of HIV in R. BMC Bioinformatics.

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SE Morris, DL Farber, AJ Yates (2019). Tissue-resident memory T cells in mice and humans: Towards a quantitative ecology. J. Immunol., 203(10).

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SE Morris, AJ Yates, RL de Swart, RD de Vries, MJ Mina, AN Nelson, WHW Lin, RD Kouyos, DE Griffin, BT Grenfell (2018). Modeling the measles paradox reveals the importance of cellular immunity in regulating viral clearance. PLoS Path., 14(12).

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