Joshua Herbeck


herbeck at u dot washington dot edu

Center for AIDS Research and Department of Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 1/04 on.

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, Postdoctoral Scientist, 9/02 to 9/03

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Ph.D. 8/02

Tufts University, Somerville, MA, B.S. 5/95


My primary scientific interests are in infectious disease biology and population genetics.


Publications

2008. Herbeck, J.T., Gottlieb G.S., Li X., Hu Z., Detels R., Phair J., Rinaldo C., Jacobson L.P., Margolick J.B., J.I. Mullins. Lack of evidence for changing virulence of HIV-1 in North America. PLoS ONE, 3(2): e1525. link

2007. Rolland M., Brander C., Nickle D.C., Herbeck J.T., Gottlieb G.S., Campbell M.S., Maust B.S., J.I. Mullins. HIV-1 over time: fitness loss or robustness gain? Nature Reviews Microbiology, 5(9): 1-2. link

2007. Herbeck J.T., Lyagoba, F., Moore, S.W., Shindo, N., Biryahwaho, B., Kaleebu, P., and J.I. Mullins. Prevalence and genetic diversity of HIV-1 subtypes A and D in women attending antenatal clinics in Uganda. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 23(5): 755-760. link

2007. Bhattacharya T., Daniels M., Heckerman D., Foley B., Frahm N., Kadie C., Carlson J., Yusim K., McMahon B., Gaschen B., Mallal S., Mullins J.I., Nickle D.C., Herbeck J., et al. Founder effects in the assessment of HIV polymorphisms and HLA allele associations. Science, 315 (5818): 1583-6.

2007. Gottlieb G.S., Hawes S.E., Nickle D.C., Herbeck J.T., Kiviat N.B., Mullins J.I., Sow P.S. Presenting plasma HIV RNA level and rate of CD4 T-cell decline. JAMA, 297: 805.

2006. Herbeck J.T., Nickle, D.C., Learn, G.H., Gottlieb, G.S., Curlin, M.E., Heath, L., and J.I. Mullins. HIV-1 env evolves toward ancestral states upon transmission to a new host. Journal of Virology, 80: 1637-1644. .pdf

2005. Herbeck J.T. and D.P. Wall. Converging on a General Model of Protein Evolution. Trends in Biotechnology, 23 (10). .pdf

2004. Herbeck J.T., Degnan, P.H., and J.J. Wernegreen. Non-homogeneous Model of Sequence Evolution Indicates Independent Origins of Primary Endosymbionts within the Enterobacteriales (gamma-Proteobacteria). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22: 520-532. .pdf

2003. Herbeck J.T., Funk, D.J., Degnan, P.H., and J.J. Wernegreen. A Conservative Test of Genetic Drift in the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Buchnera: Slightly Deleterious Mutations in the Chaperonin groEL. Genetics, 165: 1651-1660. .pdf

2003. Herbeck J.T., Wall, D.P., and J.J. Wernegreen. Gene Expression Level Influences Amino Acid Usage, but not Codon Usage, in the Tsetse Fly Endosymbiont Wigglesworthia. Microbiology,149: 2585-2596. .pdf

2003. Herbeck J.T. and J. Novembre. Codon Usage Patterns in Cytochrome Oxidase I Across Multiple Insect Orders. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 56: 691-701. .pdf

2003. Wall, D.P. and Herbeck J.T. Evolutionary Patterns of Codon Usage in the Chloroplast Gene rbcL. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 56: 673-688. .pdf

1996. Bloch Qazi, M.C., Herbeck J.T., and S. Lewis. Mechanisms of Sperm Transfer and Storage in the Red Flour Beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 89: 892-897.



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