Amy Willis

Amy Willis

University of Washington

H-index: 24

North America-United States

About Amy Willis

Amy Willis, With an exceptional h-index of 24 and a recent h-index of 23 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Washington, specializes in the field of statistics, microbiome, computational biology, biodiversity, quantitative ecology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

A distinct Fusobacterium nucleatum clade dominates the colorectal cancer niche

A cryptic plasmid is among the most numerous genetic elements in the human gut

Estimating Fold Changes from Partially Observed Outcomes with Applications in Microbial Metagenomics

Host DNA depletion on frozen human respiratory samples enables successful metagenomic sequencing for microbiome studies

Analyzing microbial evolution through gene and genome phylogenies

Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress

A highly conserved and globally prevalent cryptic plasmid is among the most numerous mobile genetic elements in the human gut

Structure-informed microbial population genetics elucidate selective pressures that shape protein evolution

Amy Willis Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics

Citations(all)

14915

Citations(since 2020)

14674

Cited By

3038

hIndex(all)

24

hIndex(since 2020)

23

i10Index(all)

32

i10Index(since 2020)

30

Email

University Profile Page

University of Washington

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Amy Willis Skills & Research Interests

statistics

microbiome

computational biology

biodiversity

quantitative ecology

Top articles of Amy Willis

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

A distinct Fusobacterium nucleatum clade dominates the colorectal cancer niche

Nature

Martha Zepeda-Rivera

Samuel S Minot

Heather Bouzek

Hanrui Wu

Aitor Blanco-Míguez

...

2024/3/20

A cryptic plasmid is among the most numerous genetic elements in the human gut

Cell

Emily C Fogarty

Matthew S Schechter

Karen Lolans

Madeline L Sheahan

Iva Veseli

...

2024/2/29

Estimating Fold Changes from Partially Observed Outcomes with Applications in Microbial Metagenomics

arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05231

David S Clausen

Amy D Willis

2024/2/7

Host DNA depletion on frozen human respiratory samples enables successful metagenomic sequencing for microbiome studies

Minsik Kim

Raymond C Parrish II

Viral S Shah

Matthew Ross

Juwan Cormier

...

2024/1/23

Analyzing microbial evolution through gene and genome phylogenies

bioRxiv

Sarah Teichman

Michael D Lee

Amy D Willis

2023/8/15

Microbes with higher metabolic independence are enriched in human gut microbiomes under stress

bioRxiv

Iva Veseli

Yiqun T Chen

Matthew S Schechter

Chiara Vanni

Emily C Fogarty

...

2023/5/26

A highly conserved and globally prevalent cryptic plasmid is among the most numerous mobile genetic elements in the human gut

bioRxiv

Emily C Fogarty

Matthew S Schechter

Karen Lolans

Madeline L Sheahan

Iva Veseli

...

2023/3/25

Structure-informed microbial population genetics elucidate selective pressures that shape protein evolution

Science Advances

Evan Kiefl

Ozcan C Esen

Samuel E Miller

Kourtney L Kroll

Amy D Willis

...

2023/2/22

Differences in gut metagenomes between dairy workers and community controls: a cross-sectional study

bioRxiv

Pauline Trinh

Marilyn C Roberts

Peter M Rabinowitz

Amy D Willis

2023

happi: a hierarchical approach to pangenomics inference

Genome Biology

Pauline Trinh

David S Clausen

Amy D Willis

2023/9/29

Modeling complex measurement error in microbiome experiments

arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12733

David S Clausen

Amy D Willis

2022/4/27

rigr: Regression, Inference, and General Data Analysis Tools in R

Journal of Open Source Software

Yiqun T Chen

Brian D Williamson

Taylor Okonek

Charles J Wolock

Andrew J Spieker

...

2022/12/26

Estimating diversity in networked ecological communities

Biostatistics

Amy D Willis

Bryan D Martin

2022/1

Evaluating replicability in microbiome data

Biostatistics

David S Clausen

Amy D Willis

2022/10

A multiview model for relative and absolute microbial abundances

Biometrics

Brian D Williamson

James P Hughes

Amy D Willis

2022/9

Meta-analysis of metagenomes via machine learning and assembly graphs reveals strain switches in Crohn’s disease

bioRxiv

Taylor E Reiter

Luiz Irber

Alicia A Gingrich

Dylan Haynes

N Tessa Pierce-Ward

...

2022/7/5

Segment number threshold determines juvenile onset of germline cluster expansion in Platynereis dumerilii

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Emily Kuehn

David S Clausen

Ryan W Null

Bria M Metzger

Amy D Willis

...

2022/6

geneshot: gene-level metagenomics identifies genome islands associated with immunotherapy response

Genome Biology

Samuel S Minot

Kevin C Barry

Caroline Kasman

Jonathan L Golob

Amy D Willis

2021/5/5

Tuning parameter selection for a penalized estimator of species richness

Journal of Applied Statistics

Alex Paynter

Amy D Willis

2021/4/26

Estimation of cell lineage trees by maximum-likelihood phylogenetics

The annals of applied statistics

Jean Feng

WILLIAM S DEWITT III

Aaron McKenna

Noah Simon

Amy D Willis

...

2021/3

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