Stier A., Ogbunugafor C.B. 2025. “Associations Between Racial Bias and Political Identity in American Cities Often Diverge from Common Narratives.” NPJ Complexity 2:20.
Diaz-Arenas C., Alvarez M., Wilson R.H., Shakhnovich E.I., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2025. “Protein Quality Control Is a Master Modulator of Molecular Evolution in Bacteria.” Genome Biology and Evolution evaf010.
Greening S.S., Ellis J.C., Lewis N.L., Needle D.B., Tato C.M., Knowles S., Shearn-Bochsler V., Miller J.L., Grear D.A., Lorch J.M., et al. 2025. “An Enigmatic Wild Passerine Mortality Event in the Eastern United States.” Veterinary Sciences 12(1):48.
Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2025. “On Modes of Disease Transmission and the Hidden Shape of Pandemics: A Review of Asymptomatic by Joshua Weitz.” Virus Evolution veae109.
Ayala A.J., Cheng M., Hellinger T.A., McBride K.M., Webb J., Fanning A., Snyder P., Ferragamo M., Garcia S.C., Sterner N., Bischoff, Almagro-Moreno S., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2025. “Wild Florida Mottled Ducks Demonstrate Strong Heterogeneity in Their Humoral Innate Immune Response.” PLoS One 20(3): e0312653.
Kabengele K., Turner W.T., Turner P.E., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2024. “A Meta-Analysis Highlights the Idiosyncratic Nature of Tradeoffs in Models of Virus Evolution.” Virus Evolution veae105.
Chin E.T., Liu Y.E., Ogbunu C.B., Basu S. 2024. “Population Health Implications of Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Populations.” Milbank Quarterly.
Li K., Chaguza C., Stamp J., Chew Y.T., Chen N.F.G., Ferguson D., et al. 2024. “Genome-Wide Association Study Between SARS-CoV-2 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Virus Copies during Infections.” PLoS Computational Biology 20(9): e1012469.
Surasinghe S., Kabengele K., Turner P.E., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2024. “The Context-Specificity of Virulence Evolution Revealed through Evolutionary Invasion Analysis.” Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 86:88.
Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Yitbarek S. 2024. “Toward a Fundamental Theory of Taxon Transitions in Microbial Communities.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(11): e240043312. Invited article.
Mwakibete L., et al. 2024. “Metagenomics for Pathogen Detection during a Wildlife Mortality Event in Songbirds.” Journal of Wildlife Diseases (Feb 12, 2024).
Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2023. “The Dose Makes the Poison and the Lesson.” Evolution qpad220.
Diaz-Colunga J.†, Sanchez A.†, Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2023. “Environmental Modulation of Global Epistasis in a Drug Resistance Fitness Landscape.” Nature Communications 14:8055.
Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2023. “Mutations that Enhance Evolvability May Open Doors to Faster Adaptation.” Nature Communications 14:6310. Invited article.
Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2023. “Awakening Innovations in Biology and Culture.” Nature Ecology & Evolution.Invited article.
Segre D., Mitri S., Shou W., Süel G.M., Mizrahi I., Kelly L., Rebolleda-Gómez M., Ratzke C., Ogbunugafor C.B., Schwartzman J.A., Kryazhimskiy S. 2023. “What Do You Most Want to Understand about How Collective Features Emerge in Microbial Communities?” Cell Systems 14(2):91–97. Invited article.
Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Guerrero R.F., Shakhnovich E.I., Shoulders M.D. 2023. “Epistasis Meets Pleiotropy in Shaping Biophysical Protein Subspaces Associated with Antimicrobial Resistance.” Physical Review E 108:054408.
Taylor L.U., Ronconi R.A., Spina H.A., Jones M.E.B., Ogbunugafor C.B., Ayala A.J. 2023. “Limited Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Influenza A(H5N1) in Herring Gull Colony, Canada, 2022.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 29(10):2150–2154.
Ayala A.J., Kabengele K., Almagro-Moreno S.†, Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2023. “Patterns of Air Pressure, Wind Speed, and Temperature Are Correlated with an Increased [disease incidence].” PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17(7): e0011461.
Surasinghe S., Rodriguez-Messan M., Meszaros V.A., Molofsky J., Almagro-Moreno S., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2023. “Pathogen Emergence as Complex Biological Invasion: Lessons from Dynamical Systems Modeling.” Northeast Journal of Complex Systems 5(1):4.
Yitbarek S., Guittar J.L., Knutie S.A., Ogbunugafor C.B. 2023. “Deconstructing Higher-Order Interactions in the Microbiota: A Theoretical Examination.” iScience.
Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Jackson F. 2023. “On Evolutionary Medicine and Health Disparities.” Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health eoad008.
Yoon J., Patrick J.E., Ogbunugafor C.B., Shoulders M.D. 2023. “Viral Evolution Shaped by Host Proteostasis Networks.” Annual Review of Virology.
Klein B.†, Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Schafer B.J., Bhadricha Z., Kori P., Sheldon J., Kaza N., Wang E.A., Eliassi-Rad T., Scarpino S.V.†, Hinton E.† 2023. “COVID-19 Amplified Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Legal System.” Nature.
Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Edge M.D.† 2022. “Gattaca as a Lens on Contemporary Genetics: Marking 25 Years into the Film’s ‘Not-Too-Distant’ Future.” Genetics.
Williams B.J., Ogbunugafor C.B., Althouse B.M., Hébert-Dufresne L. 2022. “Immunity-Induced Criticality of the Genotype Network of Influenza A (H3N2) Hemagglutinin.” PNAS Nexus pgac143.
Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2022. “DNA, Basketball, and Birthday Luck: A Review of The Genetic Lottery.” American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
*Pennings P.S., Ogbunugafor C.B., Hershberg R. ** 2022. “Reversion Is Most Likely under High Mutation Supply, When Compensatory Mutations Don’t Fully Restore Fitness Cost.” G3. (Co-lead authors.)
Draghi J.A., Ogbunugafor C.B. 2022. “Exploring the Expanse between Theoretical Questions and Experimental Approaches in the Modern Study of Evolvability.” Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B.
Balasubramanian D., López-Pérez M., Grant T.A., Ogbunugafor C.B., Almagro-Moreno S. 2022. “Molecular Mechanisms and Drivers of Pathogen Emergence.” Trends in Microbiology.
Yoon J., Nekongo E.E., Patrick J.E., Phillips A.M., Ponomarenko A.I., Hendel S.J., Butty V.L., Ogbunugafor C.B., Lin Y.S., Shoulders M.D. 2022. “The Host Cell’s Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteostasis Network Profoundly Shapes the Protein Sequence Space Accessible to HIV Envelope.” PLoS Biology 20(2): e3001569.
Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2022. “The Mutation Effect Reaction Norm (mu-rn) Highlights Environmentally Dependent Mutation Effects and Epistatic Interactions.” Evolution.
Osman A., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2022. “An Epidemic Analogy Highlights the Importance of Targeted Community Engagement in Spaces Susceptible to Misinformation.” Frontiers in Communication 3.
Balasubramanian D., Murcia S., Ogbunugafor C.B., Gavilan R., Almagro-Moreno S. 2021. “Cholera Dynamics: Lessons from an Epidemic.” Medical Microbiology.
Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Meszaros V.A., Miller-Dickson M.D., Gomez L.M., Murillo A.L., Scarpino S.V. 2020. “Variation in Microparasite Free-Living Survival and Indirect Transmission Can Modulate Intensity of Emerging Outbreaks.” Scientific Reports 10:20786.
Gomez L.M., Meszaros V.A., Turner W.C., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2020. “The Epidemiological Signature of Pathogen Populations That Vary in the Relationship between Free-Living Parasite Survival and Virulence.” Viruses 12:1055.
Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2020. “A Reflection on 50 Years of John Maynard Smith’s ‘Protein Space.’” Genetics 214(4):749–754.
Miller-Dickson M., Meszaros V.A., Baffour-Awuah F., Almagro-Moreno S., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2020. “Direct Transmission via Households Informs Models of Disease and Intervention Dynamics in Cholera.” PLoS ONE 15: e0229837.
Pham J.Y., Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Ba A.N.N., Hartl D.L. 2019. “Experimental Evolution for Niche Breadth in Bacteriophage T4 Highlights the Importance of Structural Genes.” MicrobiologyOpen e968.
Miller-Dickson M.D., Meszaros V.A., Almagro-Moreno S., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2019. “Hepatitis C Virus Modeled as an Indirectly Transmitted Infection Highlights the Centrality of Injection Drug Equipment in Disease Dynamics.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16(158):20190334.
Rodrigues J.V., Ogbunugafor C.B., Hartl D.L., Shakhnovich E.I. 2019. “Chimeric Dihydrofolate Reductases Display Properties of Modularity and Biophysical Diversity.” Protein Science 28(7):1359–1367.
Meszaros V.A., Miller-Dickson M.D., Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2019. “Lexical Landscapes as Large In Silico Data for Examining Advanced Properties of Fitness Landscapes.” PLoS ONE 14(8): e0220891.
**Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Eppstein M.J. ** 2019. “Genetic Background Modifies the Topography of a Fitness Landscape, Influencing the Dynamics of Adaptive Evolution.” IEEE Access 7:113675–83.
Eppstein M.J., Ogbunugafor C.B. 2016. “Quantifying Deception: A Case Study in the Evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance.” Proceedings of GECCO 2016 (Best Paper, Complex Systems track).
Ogbunugafor C.B.c†, Hartl D.L. 2016. “A Pivot Mutation Impedes Reverse Evolution across an Adaptive Landscape for Drug Resistance in Plasmodium vivax.” Malaria Journal 15:40.
Ogbunugafor C.B.c†, Hartl D.L. 2016. “A New Take on John Maynard Smith’s Concept of Protein Space for Understanding Molecular Evolution.” PLoS Computational Biology 12(10): e1005046.
Ogbunugafor C.B.c, Robinson S.P. 2016. “OFFl Models: Novel Schema for Dynamical Modeling of Biological Systems.” PLoS ONE 11(6): e0156844.
Ogbunugafor C.B.c†, Wylie C.S., Diakite I., Weinreich D.M., Hartl D.L. 2016. “Adaptive Landscape-by-Environment Interactions Dictate Evolutionary Dynamics in Models of Drug Resistance.” PLoS Computational Biology 12(1): e1004710.
Wasik B.R., Bhushan A., Ogbunugafor C.B.c, Turner P.E. 2015. “Delayed Transmission Selects for Increased Survival of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus.” Evolution 69(1):117–125.
Ogbunugafor C.B.b†, Alto B.W., Overton T.M., Bhushan A., Morales N.M., Turner P.E. 2013. “Evolution of Increased Survival in RNA Viruses Specialized on Cancer-Derived Cells.” American Naturalist 181(5):585–595.
Ogbunugafor C.B.b, Pease J.B., Turner P.E. 2010. “On the Possible Role of Robustness in the Evolution of Infectious Diseases.” Chaos 20(2):026108.
Ogbunugafor C.B.b, Basu S., Morales N.M., Turner P.E. 2010. “Combining Mathematics and Empirical Data to Predict Emergence of RNA Viruses That Differ in Reservoir Use.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365(1548):1919–1930.
Ogbunugafor C.B.b, McBride R.C., Turner P.E. 2009. “Predicting Virus Evolution: The Relationship between Genetic Robustness and Evolvability of Thermotolerance.” Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 74:109–118.
McBride R.C., Ogbunugafor C.B.b, Turner P.E. 2008. “Robustness Promotes Evolvability of Thermotolerance in an RNA Virus.” BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:231.
Sumba L.A., Ogbunugafor C.B.a, Deng A.L., Hassanali A. 2008. “Regulation of Oviposition in Anopheles gambiae s.s.: Role of Inter- and Intra-Specific Signals.” Journal of Chemical Ecology 34(11):1430–1436.
Ogbunugafor C.B.a†, Sumba L. 2008. “Behavioral Evidence for the Existence of a Region-Specific Oviposition Cue in Anopheles gambiae s.s.” Journal of Vector Ecology 33(2):321–324.
Britto P.R., Cerezo A., Ogbunugafor C.B. 2008. “National ECD Policy Development: Case Study from the People’s Democratic Republic of Lao.” International Journal of Early Childhood 40(2):101–118.
Omlin F.X., Carlson J.C., Ogbunugafor C.B.a, Hassanali A. 2007. “Anopheles gambiae Exploits the Tree Hole Ecosystem in Western Kenya: A New Urban Malaria Risk?” American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 77(6 Suppl):264–269.
Ogbunugafor C.B.† 2004. “On Reductionism in Biology: Pillars, Leaps, and the Naive Behavioral Scientist.” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 77(3–4):101–109.
Ogbunugafor C.B.†, Morris V.R. 2000. “A Discussion of the Colorado Agricultural Field Experiment, Its Contribution to the Characterization of Ambient Trace Gas Species on an Agricultural Field, and Its Implications for Tropospheric Modeling.” Berkeley Scientific Journal 4(1).
