Pamela Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is also affiliated with the university’s department of statistics. In addition to these roles, she is a researcher and grant recipient at CrisisReady. Her research spans topics of computational biology and host-pathogen interactions, and focuses primarily on infectious diseases.
Martinez has published research on how socioeconomic factors influence COVID-19 incidence and mortality in Santiago, Chile, and how COVID lockdowns changed human mobility and the epidemiological dynamics of viral transmission.
PUBLICATIONS
- Ke, R., Martinez, P. P., Smith, R. L., Gibson, L. L., Mirza, A., Conte, M., Gallagher, N., Luo, C. H., Jarrett, J., Zhou, R., Conte, A., Liu, T., Farjo, M., Walden, K. K. O., Rendon, G., Fields, C. J., Wang, L., Fredrickson, R., Edmonson, D. C., … Brooke, C. B. (2022). Daily longitudinal sampling of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals substantial heterogeneity in infectiousness. Nature Microbiology, 7(5), 640-652. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01105-z
- Ke, R., Martinez, P. P., Smith, R. L., Gibson, L. L., Achenbach, C. J., McFall, S., Qi, C., Jacob, J., Dembele, E., Bundy, C., Simons, L. M., Ozer, E. A., Hultquist, J. F., Lorenzo-Redondo, R., Opdycke, A. K., Hawkins, C., Murphy, R. L., Mirza, A., Conte, M., … Brooke, C. B. (2022). Longitudinal Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reveals Limited Infectious Virus Shedding and Restricted Tissue Distribution. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 9(7), [ofac192]. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac192
- Santos-Vega, M., Martinez, P. P., Vaishnav, K. G., Kohli, V., Desai, V., Bouma, M. J., & Pascual, M. (2022). The neglected role of relative humidity in the interannual variability of urban malaria in Indian cities. Nature communications, 13(1), [533]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28145-7
- Ke, R., Martinez, P. P., Smith, R. L., Gibson, L. L., Mirza, A., Conte, M., Gallagher, N., Luo, C. H., Jarrett, J., Conte, A., Liu, T., Farjo, M., Walden, K. K. O., Rendon, G., Fields, C. J., Wang, L., Fredrickson, R., Edmonson, D. C., Baughman, M. E., … Brooke, C. B. (2021). Daily Sampling of Early SARS-CoV-2 Infection Reveals Substantial Heterogeneity in Infectiousness. (medRxiv). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.12.21260208
- Kishore, N., Kahn, R., Martinez, P. P., De Salazar, P. M., Mahmud, A. S., & Buckee, C. O. (2021). Lockdowns result in changes in human mobility which may impact the epidemiologic dynamics of SARS-CoV-2. Scientific reports, 11(1), 6995. [6995]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86297-w