Andrew Read

Andrew Read

Director, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences; Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology; Eberly Professor of Biotechnology

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Most Recent Papers

Impact of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention on within- and between-patient daptomycin resistance evolution in vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium

Clare L. Kinnear, Twisha S. Patel, Carol L. Young, Vincent Marshall, Duane W. Newton, Andrew Fraser Read, Robert J. Woods, 2019, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

The plos biology xv collection

Lauren A. Richardson, Sandra L. Schmid, Avinash Bhandoola, Christelle Harly, Anders Hedenström, Michael T. Laub, Georgina M. Mace, Piali Sengupta, Ann M. Stock, Andrew Fraser Read, Harmit S. Malik, Mark Estelle, Sally Lowell, Jonathan Kimmelman, 2019, PLoS biology

Punctuated evolution of myxoma virus

Peter J. Kerr, John Sebastian Eden, Francesca Di Giallonardo, David Peacock, June Liu, Tanja Strive, Andrew Fraser Read, Edward C. Holmes, 2019, Journal of virology

Modeling Marek's disease virus transmission: A framework for evaluating the impact of farming practices and evolution

David A. Kennedy, Patricia Dunn, Andrew Fraser Read, 2018, Epidemics on p. 85-95

Volatile biomarkers of symptomatic and asymptomatic malaria infection in humans

Consuelo M. De Moraes, Caroline Wanjiku, Nina M. Stanczyk, Hannier Pulido, James W. Sims, Heike S. Betz, Andrew Fraser Read, Baldwyn Torto, Mark C. Mescher, 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 5780-5785

Institution-wide and Within-Patient Evolution of Daptomycin Susceptibility in Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Bloodstream Infections

Robert J. Woods, Twisha S. Patel, Jerod L. Nagel, Duane W. Newton, Andrew Fraser Read, 2018, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology on p. 226-228

The impact of within-host ecology on the fitness of a drug-resistant parasite

Silvie Huijben, Brian H.K. Chan, William A. Nelson, Andrew Fraser Read, 2018, Evolution, Medicine and Public Health on p. 127-137

Resource limitation prevents the emergence of drug resistance by intensifying within-host competition

Nina Wale, Derek Gordon Sim, Matthew J. Jones, Rahel Salathe, Troy Day, Andrew Fraser Read, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 13774-13779

Do pathogens gain virulence as hosts become more resistant?

Andrew Fraser Read, Peter J. Kerr, 2017, Scientist

Reverse engineering field isolates of myxoma virus demonstrates that some gene disruptions or losses of function do not explain virulence changes observed in the field

June Liu, Isabella Cattadori, Derek Gordon Sim, John Sebastian Eden, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Fraser Read, Peter J. Kerr, 2017, Journal of virology

Recent High-Impact Papers

Decomposing health

Lars Råberg, Andrea L. Graham, Andrew Fraser Read, 2009, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 37-49

Influence of climate on malaria transmission depends on daily temperature variation

Krijn P. Paaijmans, Simon Blanford, Andrew Stuart Bell, Justine I. Blanford, Andrew Fraser Read, Matthew Brian Thomas, 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 15135-15139

Understanding the link between malaria risk and climate

Krijn P. Paaijmans, Andrew Fraser Read, Matthew Brian Thomas, 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 13844-13849

Insecticide control of vector-borne diseases

Ana Rivero, Julien Vézilier, Mylene Weill, Andrew Fraser Read, Sylvain Gandon, 2010, PLoS Pathogens on p. 5-6

The evolution of drug resistance and the curious orthodoxy of aggressive chemotherapy

Andrew Fraser Read, Troy Day, Silvie Huijben, 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 10871-10877

Intensive fish farming and the evolution of pathogen virulence

K. Pulkkinen, L. R. Suomalainen, Andrew Fraser Read, D. Ebert, P. Rintamäki, E. T. Valtonen, 2010, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 593-600

The effect of temperature on Anopheles mosquito population dynamics and the potential for malaria transmission

Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson, William A. Nelson, Krijn P. Paaijmans, Andrew F. Read, Matthew B. Thomas, Ottar N. Bjørnstad, 2013, PLoS One

Exposing malaria in-host diversity and estimating population diversity by capture-recapture using massively parallel pyrosequencing

Jonathan J. Juliano, Kimberly Porter, Victor Mwapasa, Rithy Sem, William O. Rogers, Frédéric Ariey, Chansuda Wongsrichanaiai, Andrew Fraser Read, Steven R. Meshnick, 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 20138-20143

Complex effects of temperature on mosquito immune function

C. C. Murdock, Krijn P. Paaijmans, Andrew Stuart Bell, Jonas G. King, Julián F. Hillyer, Andrew Fraser Read, Matthew Brian Thomas, 2012, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 3357-3366

Malaria in India

Aparup Das, Anupkumar R. Anvikar, Lauren J. Cator, Ramesh C. Dhiman, Alex Eapen, Neelima Mishra, Bhupinder N. Nagpal, Nutan Nanda, Kamaraju Raghavendra, Andrew Fraser Read, Surya K. Sharma, Om P. Singh, Vineeta Singh, Photini Sinnis, Harish C. Srivastava, Steven A. Sullivan, Patrick L. Sutton, Matthew Brian Thomas, Jane M. Carlton, Neena Valecha, 2012, Acta Tropica on p. 267-273