Joseph R. Fauver, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
University of Nebraska Medical Center

Professional Summary

• 2021-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
• 2020-2021, Associate Research Scientist in Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
• 2019-2020, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale School of Public Health
• 2019-2020, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Health, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
• 2017-2019, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Education

• 2017, Colorado State University, PhD- Microbiology
• 2013, Peru State College B.S.- Natural Sciences

Professional Interests

• Pathogen Genomics & Bioinformatics
• Genomic Epidemiology
• SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics
• Genomics of infectious disease control programs
• Mosquito-borne pathogens

Selected Publications

• Joseph R. Fauver, Mary E. Petrone, Emma B. Hodcroft, Kayoko Shioda, Hanna Y. Ehrlich, Alexander G. Watts, Chantal B.F. Vogels, Anderson F. Brito, Tara Alpert, Anthony Muyombwe, Jafar Razeq, Randy Downing, Nagarjuna R. Cheemarla, Anne L. Wyllie, Chaney C. Kalinich, Isabel M. Ott, Joshua Quick, Nicholas J. Loman … Nathan D. Grubaugh. Coast-to-Coast Spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the Early Epidemic in the United States https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420304840
• TaraAlpert, Chantal B.F. Vogels, Mallery I. Breban, Mary E. Petrone, Yale IMPACT Research Team, Anne L. Wyllie, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Joseph R. Fauver. Sequencing SARS-CoV-2 Genomes from Saliva https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.21.21259289v1
• Stephen M.Kissler, Joseph R. Fauver, Christina Mack, Caroline G. Tai, Mallery I. Breban, Anne E. Watkins, Radhika M. Samant, Deverick J. Anderson, Jessica Metta, Gaurav Khullar, Rachel Baits, Matthew Mackay, Daisy Salgado, Tim Baker, Joel T. Dudley, Christopher E. Mason, David D. Ho, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Yonatan H. Grad. Viral dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.16.21251535v3
• Nathan D. Grubaugh, Emma B. Hodcroft, Joseph R. Fauver, Alexandra L. Phelan, Muge Cevik. Public health actions to control new SARS-CoV-2 variants https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421000878
• Chantal B. F. Vogels, Mallery I. Breban, Isabel M. Ott, Tara Alpert, Mary E. Petrone, Anne E. Watkins, Chaney C. Kalinich, Rebecca Earnest, Jessica E. Rothman, Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, Ingra Morales Claro, Giulia Magalhães Ferreira, Myuki A. E. Crispim, Brazil-UK CADDE Genomic Network, Lavanya Singh, Houriiyah Tegally, Ugochukwu J. Anyaneji, Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa, Emma B. Hodcroft, Christopher E. Mason, Gaurav Khullar, Jessica Metti, Joel T. Dudley, Matthew J. MacKay, Megan Nash, Jianhui Wang, Chen Liu, Pei Hui, Steven Murphy, Caleb Neal, Eva Laszlo, Marie L. Landry, Anthony Muyombwe, Randy Downing, Jafar Razeq, Tulio de Oliveira, Nuno R. Faria, Ester C. Sabino, Richard A. Neher, Joseph R. Fauver, Nathan D. Grubaugh. Multiplex qPCR discriminates variants of concern to enhance global surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001236
• Joseph R. Fauver, John Martin, Gary J. Weil, Makedonka Mitreva, Peter U. Fischer. De novo Assembly of the Brugia malayi Genome Using Long Reads from a Single MinION Flowcell https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55908-y
• Joseph R. Fauver, Nathan D. Grubaugh, Benjamin J. Krajacich, James Weger-Lucarelli, Steven M. Lakin, Lawrence S. Fakoli III, Fatorma K. Bolay, Joseph W. Diclaro II, Kounbobr Roch Dabiré, Brian D. Foy, Doug E. Brackney, Gregory D. Ebel, Mark D. Stenglein. West African Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes harbor a taxonomically diverse virome including new insect-specific flaviviruses, mononegaviruses, and totiviruses https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682216302070
• Joseph R. Fauver, Shamima Akter, Aldo Ivan Ortega Morales, William C. Black IV, Americo D. Rodriguez, Mark D. Stenglein, Gregory D. Ebel, James Weger-Lucarelli. A reverse-transcription/RNase H based protocol for depletion of mosquito ribosomal RNA facilitates viral intrahost evolution analysis, transcriptomics and pathogen discovery https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042682218303921
• Joseph R. Fauver, James Weger-Lucarelli, Lawrence S. Fakoli III, Kpehe Bolay, Fatorma K. Bolay, Joseph W. Diclaro II, Doug E. Brackney, Brian D. Foy, Mark D. Stenglein, Gregory D. Ebel. Xenosurveillance reflects traditional sampling techniques for the identification of human pathogens: A comparative study in West Africa https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006348

Complete List of Published Works

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