Nathan Grubaugh, PhD
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Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global HealthBiography
Nathan Grubaugh joined the faculty at Yale School of Public Health in 2018. Before going to graduate school, he spent ~7 years working in the biotech industry developing early phase vaccine candidates. He earned his MS in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University (2011) while conducting research at the NIH and the US Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (focus on mosquito-borne virus surveillance). Dr. Grubaugh earned his PhD in microbiology from Colorado State University in 2016 (focus on West Nile virus evolution), and went on to be a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute to study the 2015-2017 Zika virus epidemic. Now at Yale, the Grubaugh Lab uses genomics and phylogenetics to uncover the epidemiological, ecological, and evolutionary determinants of virus outbreaks. They primarily focus on mosquito- and tick-borne viruses, like dengue, West Nile, and Powassan, that are increasingly spreading into new areas and have high outbreak potential. The Grubaugh Lab is diverse and multidisciplinary, including expertise in molecular biology, phylogenetics, statistics, and mathematical modeling. His lab was critical during the COVID-19 response, from designing and evaluating diagnostics (such as SalivaDirect) to establishing the Yale SARS-CoV-2 Genomic Surveillance Initiative to track emerging variants. Expanding on this work, the lab is an academic partner for the Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence to foster and improve innovation and technical capacity in pathogen genomics, molecular epidemiology, and bioinformatics to better prevent, control, and respond to microbial threats of public health importance. Read more about their team and work at grubaughlab.com.
Appointments
Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
Associate Professor on TermPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Center for Infection and Immunity
- Center for RNA Science and Medicine
- Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases
- Microbiology
- Public Health Modeling
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale School of Public Health
- YSPH Global Health Concentration
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- The Scripps Research Institute (2018)
- PhD
- Colorado State University, Microbiology (2016)
- MS
- Johns Hopkins University, Biotechnology (2011)
- BS
- Western Michigan University, Biomedical Sciences (2005)
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genomics
The Grubaugh Lab uses genomics to investigate how mosquito-borne viruses, like Zika, dengue, and chikungunya, spread (genomic epidemiology), cause disease (functional evolution), and adapt to new environments (experimental evolution).
News
- May 23, 2024Source: CIDRAP
International scientists propose additions to dengue virus classification system
- April 25, 2024Source: Los Angeles Times
Mosquito season is upon us. So why are Southern California officials releasing more of them?
- April 01, 2024
Yale Research Team Awarded $4 Million Grant to Evaluate New Immunizations for Infant RSV
- September 01, 2023
EG.5.1? BA.2.86? Keeping Up With the New COVID-19 Subvariants
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LEPH 608
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LEPH 603
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