About the lab
Larremore Lab Collaboration Graph.
The Larremore Lab focuses on developing methods of networks, dynamical systems, and statistical inference, to solve problems in infectious diseases and computational social science. We try to keep a tight loop between data and theory, and learn a lot from confronting models and algorithms with real problems in two key areas:
Infectious Diseases. The lab develops data-informed mathematical models for infectious disease surveillance and countermeasures, including testing, vaccination, and seroepidemiology, primarily for respiratory pathogens such as RSV, flu, and SARS-CoV-2. Past work has also focused on the malaria parasite P. falciparum and its rapid recombination to evade the human immune system. Our goal is to use models and computation to improve the study of pathogens and ultimately decrease the burden of disease.
The Scientific Ecosystem. The lab analyzes and models the patterns and processes that define the ecosystem of scientific research and discovery. Our goal is to combine rigorous computation, ecological theory, and social science to understand how the scientific community works, and how it can be made more equitable and more productive. Here, we continue to build on a decade-old collaboration with the Clauset Lab.
Dan Larremore leads the lab, as an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Computer Science and the BioFrontiers Institute, with an affiliation with the Department of Applied Mathematics, and as a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Lab News
- 2024 Jan 11 - Ellen DeGennaro joins the lab as a postdoc, and Gabi Gionet joins as an IQ Bio rotation student. Welcome!
- 2023 Nov 9 - Our first paper with the Sawyer Lab, Human mRNA in saliva can correctly identify individuals harboring infection was published in mBio! This is our first work on human RNAs in saliva and their association with infection.
- 2023 Oct 20 - New paper! Led by Katie Spoon, Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty published in Science Advances!
- 2023 Sept - New baby! Dan welcomes Attie to the world. <3
- 2023 July 19 - Hunter Wapman defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Wapman!
- 2023 July 14 - Dan receives the 2023 Erdős–Rényi Prize from the Network Science Society. [PDF Slides].
- 2023 June 29 - Tzu-Chi Yen defended his thesis. Congratulations Dr. Yen!
- 2023 June 13 - Ian van Buskirk led the writing for an essay at the DARE Workshop for ICWSM 2023. If the data do not speak for themselves, how ought we to speak for the data?.
- 2023 March 7 - Dan promoted to Associate Professor.
- 2023 March 1 - Ian van Buskirk's paper An Open-Source Cultural Consensus Approach to Name-Based Gender Classification has been accepted at ICWSM 2023.
- 2022 November - New paper! Sam Zhang's work on the role of funded labor in explaining the greater productivitiy of faculty at elite universities is now published in Science Advances.
- 2022 November - New paper! Nick Laberge's work on the relationship between subfield, prestige, and gender inequality in computing is now published in the CACM, along with a lovely interview video and cover art!
- 2022 September 28 - Dan gives 2022 NSF Waterman Lecture. Recording and slides available.
- 2022 September 27 - New paper! Led by Hunter Wapman, "Quantifying hierarchy and dynamics in U.S. faculty hiring and retention" appears in Nature.
- 2022 September 22 - New paper! "Optimizing prevalence estimates for a novel pathogen by reducing uncertainty in test characteristics" appears in Epidemics.
- 2022 September 19 - New paper! Led by Erik Johnson, "Bayesian estimation of population size and overlap from random subsamples" appears in PLOS Computational Biology.
- 2022 September 7-9 - Casey Middleton presents research at the 2022 MIDAS Network Annual Meeting in Bethesda, MD.
- 2022 July 31 - Postdoc Kate Wootton is off to the University of Canterbury where she'll take a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
- 2022 July 19-22 - Hunter, Katie, and Sam presented their work at the International Conference on Compuational Social Science at the University of Chicago.
- 2022 June 6-9 - Hunter, Katie, and Sam presented at the first International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, in Washington D.C. At the same time, Casey presented her work at Ecology & Evolution of Infectious Diseases.
- 2022 May 19 - Co-led by Kate Bubar and Casey Middleton, new paper in Nature Communications, SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Impacts of Unvaccinated-Only Screening in Populations of Mixed Vaccination Status.
- 2022 May 5 - Many in the lab attended A New Synthesis for the Science of Science, organized at the Santa Fe Institute by Aaron Clauset, Dan Larremore, and Mirta Galesic.
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2022 May 5 -
Dan recieves the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation.
- 2022 April 12 - New preprint, Labor advantages drive the greater productivity of faculty at elite universities led by Sam Zhang.
- 2022 April 11 - Casey Middleton wins the Departmental Outstanding Research Award for her work modeling vaccinate-or-test strategies!
- 2022 April 11 - Congratulations to Upasana Dutta for a brilliantly defended MS thesis, supervised by Aaron Clauset, and for winning the Bell Foundation Outstanding Research Award! Upasana is off to Penn to work with Duncan Watts this fall.
- 2022 April 11 - Tzu-Chi Yen is recognized with an Outstanding TA Award!