Faculty Member Since 2010
Dr. Yonas Tekle is a Professor for Biology.
Dr. Yonas Tekle's lab implements the basic principles of evolution to study the diversity, origin and relationships of medical and nonmedical microbes. He is fascinated by interdisciplinary research approaches in answering challenging questions that affect our everyday life.
Particularly, he is interested in integrating bioinformatics/phylogenetics with mathematical modeling to understand the evolution and epidemics of infectious diseases.
Dr. Yonas Tekle's lab implements the basic principles of evolution to study the diversity, origin and relationships of medical and nonmedical microbes. He is fascinated by interdisciplinary research approaches in answering challenging questions that affect our everyday life. Particularly, he is interested in integrating bioinformatics/phylogenetics with mathematical modeling in order to understand the evolution and epidemics of infectious diseases.
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Tekle Y. I., Anderson o. Roger, †Lecky A., †Kelly S. D. A New Freshwater Amoeba: Cochliopodium pentatrifurcatum n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Amorphea). In press. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
Tekle, Y.I., Nielsen KM., Liu J., Pettigrew M., Meyers LA., Townsend JP., Galvani AP. 2012. Controlling nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus through directed vaccination, treatment, and evolutionary response. PLoS One 7,12/e50688
Ndeffo Mbah M.L., Liu J., Bauch C.T., Tekel Y.I., Medlock J., Meyers L.A., Galvani A.P. 2012. The Impact of Imitation on Vaccination Behavior in Social Contact. PLoS Comput Biol 8(4): e1002469. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002469
Townsend J.P., Su Z., Tekle, Y.I. 2012. Phylogenetic signal and noise: Predicting the power of a dataset to resolve phylogeny. Syst Biol. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/sys036
Liu J., Kochin B.F., Tekle, Y.I., Galvani A.P. 2011. Epidemiological game-theory dynamics of chickenpox vaccination in the USA and Israel. J. R. Soc. Interface 7, 9 66 68-76
Tekle, Y. I., Grant J., †Kovner, A., Townsend J., Katz, L. 2010. Identification of new molecular markers for assembling the eukaryotic tree of life. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. (), doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.010
Tekle, Y. I., Parfrey L.W., Katz L.A. 2009. Molecular Data are Transforming Hypotheses on the Origin and Diversification of Eukaryotes. BioScience 59: 471–481