Publications
Peer Reviewed
Betke BA, Juman MM, O’Shea M, Fagre A, Frank H, Becker DJ, Poisot T. (In Press) Why don’t bats get sick from viruses? Frontiers in Young Minds
Briana Betke, Nicole Gottdenker, Lauren Ancel Meyers LA, Daniel J. Becker. (2024) Ecological and evolutionary characteristics of synanthropic roosting ability in bats of the world. iScience. Article
Spencer J. Fox, Emily Javan, Remy Pasco, Graham C. Gibson, Briana Betke, José-Luis Herrera Diestra, Spencer Woody, Kelly Pierce, Kaitlyn E. Johnson, Maureen Johnson-León, Michael Lachmann Lauren Ancel Meyers. (2023) Disproportionate Impacts of COVID-19 in a large US City. PLOS Computational Biology. Article
Omayma Amin, Christina A. Rostad, Mark Gonzalez, Bradley S. Rostad, Shelley Caltharp, Elizabeth Quincer, Briana A. Betke, Nicole L. Gottdenker, Jonathan J. Wilson, Andi L. Shane, Mohnd Elmontser, Andres Camacho-Gonzalez, Tal Senior, Oliver Smith, Evan J. Anderson, Inci Yildirim.(2022). Cat-Scratch Disease: 9 Years of Experience at a Pediatric Center. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Article
In Review
Briana Betke, Nicole Gottdenker, Lauren Ancel Meyers LA, Daniel J. Becker. The Role of Anthropogenic Roosting Ecology in Shaping Viral Outcomes in Bats. Journal of Applied Ecology Preprint
Advanced Preparation
Briana Betke, Nicole Gottdenker, Lauren Ancel Meyers LA, Daniel J. Becker. The Role of Anthropogenic Roosting Ecology in Shaping Viral Outcomes in Bats. Preprint
Betke BA, Gottdenker NL. Ecological associations of vector-borne pathogen expo- sure in companion animals in Georgia, 2017-2021. In preparation for Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
Becker DJ, Olbrys BL, Vicente-Santos A, Simonis MC, Ciarrachi S, Ledezma-Campos P, Dyer KE, Rodrìguez-Pastor R, Santibáñez P, Roistacher A, DeAnglis IK, Betke BA, Jackson RT, Lunn TJ, Webala PW, Forbes KM, Corrales-Aguilar E, Gillespie TR, Simon R, Wiantoro S, Tsang SM, Sears KE, Page RA, Simmons NB, Foster JT, Mill´ an J, Volokhov DV, Herrera C. Model-guided characterization of bat hosts of hemoplasmas with zoonotic potential.
Cummings C, Betke BA, Becker DJ, Integrating immune variables into trait-based machine learning models to compare model performance and predictive capacity of mammalian virus hosts.
Betke BA, Becker DJ, When there’s an eviction notice for bats, what happens to
pathogen dynamics? In preparation for Proceedings B
Reports
Emily Javan, Emily Kushnereit, Briana Betke, Spencer Woody, Remy Pasco, Kelly Pierce, Kaitlyn Johnson, Maureen Johnson-León, Michael Lachmann, Spencer J. Fox, Lauren Ancel Meyers. Heterogeneous burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in Central Texas. UT COVID Modeling Consortium. Report