QinQin Yu

QinQin Yu

Postdoctoral Fellow @ Harvard Chan School | formerly: PhD @ UC Berkeley, IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge Fellow in Rwanda | pathogen evolution, bacterial genomics, public health | diversity, equity, and inclusion in public health and STEM | she/her/hers

Publications

* denotes equal contribution
Note that before 2014, my legal name was Qinsi Yu.

Publications

QinQin Yu, Scott Olesen, Claire Duvallet, and Yonatan Grad. Assessment of sewer connectivity in the United States and its implications for equity in wastewater-based epidemiology. PLoS Global Public Health (2024).
DOI/medRxiv/PDF

QinQin Yu, Joao Ascensao*, Takashi Okada*, Olivia Boyd, Erik Volz, Oskar Hallatschek. Lineage frequency time series reveal elevated levels of genetic drift in SARS-CoV-2 transmission. PLoS Pathogens (2024).
DOI/bioRxiv/PDF

Joao A. Ascensao, Jonas Denk, Kristen Lok, QinQin Yu, Kelly M. Wetmore, Oskar Hallatschek. Rediversification following ecotype isolation reveals hidden adaptive potential. Current Biology (2024).
DOI/bioRxiv/PDF

QinQin Yu, Matti Gralka, Marie-Cécilia Duvernoy, Megan Sousa, Arbel Harpak, and Oskar Hallatschek. Mutability of demographic noise in microbial range expansions. ISME J (2021).
DOI/bioRxiv/PDF

Milan Delor, Hannah L. Weaver, QinQin Yu, and Naomi S. Ginsberg. Imaging material functionality through three-dimensional nanoscale tracking of energy flow. Nature Materials 19, No. 1 (2020): 56-62.
DOI/arXiv/PDF

Jona Kayser, Carl F. Schreck, QinQin Yu, Matti Gralka, and Oskar Hallatschek. Emergence of evolutionary driving forces in pattern-forming microbial populations, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 373: 20170106.
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Heather. R. Jacobson, Stefan Keller, Anna Frebel, Andrew R. Casey, Martin Asplund, Michael S. Bessell, Gary S. Da Costa, Karin Lind, Anna F. Marino, John E. Norris, Jose M. Pena, Brian P. Schmidt, Patrick Tisserand, Jennifer M. Walsh, David Yong, Qinsi Yu. High-Resolution Spectroscopic Study of Extremely Metal-Poor Star Candidates from the SkyMapper Survey, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 807, Issue 1, 171, 2015.
DOI/arXiv/PDF

A. Kawasaki, B. Braverman, Q. Yu, and V. Vuletic. Two-Color Magneto-Optical Trap with Small Magnetic Field for Ytterbium, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 48 (2015) 155302.
DOI/arXiv/PDF

M. J. Jackson, E. Lhotel, S. R. Giblin, S. T. Bramwell, D. Prabhakaran, K. Matsuhira, Z. Hiroi, Q. Yu, and C. Paulsen. Dynamic behavior of magnetic avalanches in the spin-ice compound Dy2Ti2O7, Physical Review B, 90, Issue 6, 2014.
DOI/arXiv/PDF

Andrew R. Casey, Stefan Keller, Alan Alves-Brito, Anna Frebel, Gary Da Costa, Amanda Karakas, David Yong, Kevin Schlaufman, Heather R. Jacobson, Qinsi Yu, and Cherie Fishlock. The Aquarius Co-Moving Group is Not a Disrupted Classical Globular Cluster, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Main Journal, Vol. 443, 828-851, 2014.
DOI/arXiv/PDF

A. Frebel, Q. Yu, and H. Jacobson. A new r-process star with low abundances of r-process elements, Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VI Conference Proceedings, 2013.
DOI/PDF

A. Frebel, A. Casey, H. Jacobson, and Q. Yu. Deriving Stellar Effective Temperatures of Metal-Poor Stars with the Excitation Potential Method, The Astrophysical Journal, 769, Issue 1, 57, 2013.
DOI/arXiv/PDF