Allison Hicks
Research Assistant
Phone: 212.342.9031
Fax: 212.342.9044
Email: alh2191@columbia.edu
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, BS in Microbiology, 2011
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, MS in Microbial Biology, 2013
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Epidemiological surveillance
Mechanisms of viral evolution and emergence
PUBLICATIONS
- Hicks AL, Duffy S (2013) Cell tropism predicts long-term nucleotide substitution rates of mammalian RNA viruses. Plos Pathogens. In revision.
- Hicks AL, Duffy S (2012) One misdated sequence of rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus prevents accurate estimation of its nucleotide substitution rate. Bmc Evolutionary Biology 12: 74.
- Hicks AL, Duffy S (2011) Genus-specific substitution rate variability among picornaviruses. Journal of Virology 85: 7942-7947.
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