Publications

Noor Youssef, S. Gurev, F. Ghantous, K. P. Brock, J. A. Jaimes, N. N. Thadani, A. Dauphin, A.C. Sherman, L. Yurkovetskiy, D. Soto, R. Estanboulieh, B. Kotzen, P. Notin, A.W. Kollasch, A.A. Cohen, S.E. Dross, J. Erasmus, D.H. Fuller, P.J. Bjorkman, J.E. Lemieux, J. Luban, M.S. Seaman, D.S. Marks (2025). Computationally designed proteins mimic antibody immune evasion in viral evolution. In Immunity.

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Y. Yu, M.A. Kass, M. Zhang, Noor Youssef, C.A. Freije, K.P. Brock, L.C. Aguado, L.L. Seifert, S. Venkittu, X. Hong, A. Shlomai, Y.P. de Jong, D.S. Marks, C.M. Rice, W.M. Schneider (2024). Deep mutational scanning of hepatitis B virus reveals a mechanism for cis-preferential reverse transcription. In Cell.

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N.N. Thadani, S.F. Gurev, P. Notin, Noor Youssef, N.J. Rollins, C. Sander, Y. Gal, D.S. Marks (2023). Learning from pre-pandemic data to forecast viral escape. In Nature.

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Noor Youssef, Edward Susko, Andrew Roger, Joseph Bielawski (2022). Evolution of amino acid propensities under stability-mediated epistasis. In Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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Noor Youssef (2021). Evolutionary dynamics under a stability-constrained model.

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Donald T Stewart, Brent M Robicheau, Noor Youssef, Manuel A Garrido-Ramos, Emily E Chase, Sophie Breton (2021). Expanding the search for sperm transmission elements in the mitochondrial genomes of bivalve mollusks. In Genes.

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Noor Youssef, Edward Susko, Andrew Roger, Joseph Bielawski (2021). Shifts in amino acid preferences as proteins evolve: A synthesis of experimental and theoretical work. In Protein Science.

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Noor Youssef, Edward Susko, Joseph Bielawski (2020). Consequences of Stability-Induced Epistasis for Substitution Rates. In Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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Noor Youssef, Aidan Budd, Joseph Bielawski (2020). Introduction to Genome Biology and Diversity. In Evolutionary Genomics - Statistical and Computational Methods.

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Donald T Stewart, Sophie Breton, Emily E Chase, Brent M Robicheau, Stefano Bettinazzi, Eric Pante, Noor Youssef, Manuel A Garrido-Ramos (2020). An unusual evolutionary strategy: the origins, genetic repertoire, and implications of doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in bivalves. In Evolutionary Biology—A Transdisciplinary Approach.

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Chris Jones, Noor Youssef, Edward Susko, Joseph Bielawski (2020). A Phenotype-Genotype Codon Model for Detecting Adaptive Evolution. In Systematic Biology.

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Chris Jones, Noor Youssef, Edward Susko, Joseph Bielawski (2018). Phenomenological Load on Model Parameters Can Lead to False Biological Conclusions. In Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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Chris Jones, Noor Youssef, Edward Susko, Joseph Bielawski (2017). Shifting Balance on a Static Mutation–Selection Landscape: A Novel Scenario of Positive Selection. In Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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