Leah Pearlman

Leah Pearlman joined the lab as a Research Associate from 2019 to 2021, where she worked on the viral genomic sequencing team as part of the COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance Core and investigated how viral antigens evade the immune system with the viral antigens team. Leah is now pursuing an MPH in Epidemiology from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. There, she plans to utilize epidemiological tools to address healthcare equity in the U.S. and worldwide.

Leah graduated from Brandeis University in 2019 with a B.S. in Biology and Health, Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP). There, she conducted honors research in the Lovett Lab which specializes in DNA damage and repair. Leah evaluated the quasi-palindrome (QP) template switch (TS) mutation avoidance mechanism during DNA synthesis to avoid DNA damage in the model organism of S. cerevisiae.

You can often find Leah on a volleyball court, walking her dog Bella, or cooking Mexican food.

Ebola Virus Epidemiology, Transmission, and Evolution during Seven Months in Sierra Leone

Cell. 2015.
Park DJ, Dudas G, Wohl S, Goba A, Whitmer SL, Andersen KG, Sealfon RS, Ladner JT, Kugelman JR, Matranga CB, Winnicki SM, Qu J, Gire SK, Gladden-Young A, Jalloh S, Nosamiefan D, Yozwiak NL, Moses LM, Jiang PP, Lin AE, Schaffner SF, Bird B, Towner J, Mamoh M, Gbakie M, Kanneh L, Kargbo D, Massally JL, Kamara FK, Konuwa E, Sellu J, Jalloh AA, Mustapha I, Foday M, Yillah M, Erickson BR, Sealy T, Blau D, Paddock C, Brault A, Amman B, Basile J, Bearden S, Belser J, Bergeron E, Campbell S, Chakrabarti A, Dodd K, Flint M, Gibbons A, Goodman C, Klena J, McMullan L, Morgan L, Russell B, Salzer J, Sanchez A, Wang D, Jungreis I, Tomkins-Tinch C, Kislyuk A, Lin MF, Chapman S, MacInnis B, Matthews A, Bochicchio J, Hensley LE, Kuhn JH, Nusbaum C, Schieffelin JS, Birren BW, Forget M, Nichol ST, Palacios GF, Ndiaye D, Happi C, Gevao SM, Vandi MA, Kargbo B, Holmes EC, Bedford T, Gnirke A, Ströher U, Rambaut A, Garry RF, Sabeti PC

Discovery Of Novel Rhabdoviruses In The Blood Of Healthy Individuals From West Africa

PLoS Negl Trop Dis 17;9(3):e0003631
Stremlau MH, Andersen KG, Folarin OA, Grove JN, Odia I, Ehiane PE, Omoniwa O, Omoregie O, Jiang PP, Yozwiak NL, Matranga CB, Yang X, Gire SK, Winnicki SM, Tariyal R, Schaffner SF, Okokhere PO, Okogbenin S, Akpede GO, Asogun DA, Agbonlahor DE, Walker PJ, Tesh RB, Levin JZ, Garry RF, Sabeti PC, Happi CT

Enhanced Methods For Unbiased Deep Sequencing Of Lassa And Ebola RNA Viruses In Clinical And Biological Samples.

Genome Biol 15(11):519
Matranga CB, Andersen KG, Winnicki SM, Busby M, Gladden AD, Tewhey R, Stremlau M, Berlin A, Gire SK, England E, Moses LM, Mikkelsen TS, Odia I, Ehiane PE, Folarin O, Goba A, Kahn SH, Grant DS, Honko A, Hensley L, Happi C, Garry RF, Malboeuf CM, Birren BW, Gnirke A, Levin JZ, Sabeti PC

Clinical Illness And Outcomes In Patients With Ebola In Sierra Leone

N Engl J Med 371(22):2092-100
Schieffelin JS, Shaffer JG, Goba A, Gbakie M, Gire SK, Colubri A, Sealfon RSG, Kanneh L, Moigboi A, Momoh M, Fullah M, Moses LM, Brown BL, Andersen KG, Winnicki SM, Schaffner SF, Park DJ, Yozwiak NL, Jiang PP, Kargbo D, Jalloh S, Fonnie M, Sinnah V, French I, Kovoma A, Kamara FK, Tucker V, Konuwa E, Sellu J, Mustapha I, Foday M, Yillah M, Kanneh F, Saffa S, Massally JL, Boisen ML, Branco LM, Vandi MA, Grant DS, Happi C, Gevao SM, Fletcher TE, Fowler RA, Bausch DG, Sabeti PC, Khan SH, Garry RF for the KGH Lassa Fever Program, the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium and the WHO Clinical Response Team

Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak

Science 345(6202):1369-72
Gire SK, Goba A, Andersen KG, Sealfon RS, Park DJ, Kanneh L, Jalloh S, Momoh M, Fullah M, Dudas G, Wohl S, Moses LM, Yozwiak NL, Winnicki SM, Matranga CB, Malboeuf CM, Qu J, Gladden AD, Schaffner SF, Yang X, Jiang PP, Nekoui M, Colubri A, Coomber MR, Fonnie M, Moigboi A, Gbakie M, Kamara FK, Tucker V, Konuwa E, Saffa S, Sellu J, Jalloh AA, Kovoma A, Koninga J, Mustapha I, Kargbo K, Foday M, Yillah M, Kanneh F, Robert W, Massally JL, Chapman SB, Bochicchio J, Murphy C, Nusbaum C, Young S, Birren BW, Grant DS, Scheiffelin JS, Lander ES, Happi C, Gevao SM, Gnirke A, Rambaut A, Garry RF, Khan SH, Sabeti PC.

Research capacity. Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa.

Science 344(6190):1346-8
H3Africa Consortium

Identifying Recent Adaptations In Large-Scale Genomic Data

Cell 152(4):703-713
Grossman SR, Andersen KG, Shlyakhter I, Tabrizi S, Winnicki SM, Yen A, Park DJ, Griesemer D, Karlsson EK, Wong SH, Cabili M, Adegbola RA, Bamezai RNK, Hill AVS, Vannberg FO, Rinn JL, 1000 Genomes Project, Lander ES, Schaffner SF, Sabeti PC

Early host-pathogen interactions in a marine bivalve: Crassostrea virginica pallial mucus modulates Perkinsus marinus growth and virulence.

Dis Aquat Organ. 104(3):237-47
Pales Espinosa E, Winnicki SM, Allam B.

Early host-pathogen interactions in marine bivalves: evidence that the alveolate parasite Perkinsus marinus infects through the oyster mantle during rejection of pseudofeces.

LEAH PEARLMAN

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Science 344(6190):1346-8
H3Africa Consortium

Cell 152(4):703-713
Grossman SR, Andersen KG, Shlyakhter I, Tabrizi S, Winnicki SM, Yen A, Park DJ, Griesemer D, Karlsson EK, Wong SH, Cabili M, Adegbola RA, Bamezai RNK, Hill AVS, Vannberg FO, Rinn JL, 1000 Genomes Project, Lander ES, Schaffner SF, Sabeti PC

Dis Aquat Organ. 104(3):237-47
Pales Espinosa E, Winnicki SM, Allam B.

J Invertebr Pathol. 113(1):26-34
Allam B, Carden WE, Ward JE, Ralph G, Winnicki SM, Pales Espinosa E.

LEAH PEARLMAN

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Science 344(6190):1346-8 H3Africa Consortium

Cell 152(4):703-713 Grossman SR*, Andersen KG*, Shlyakhter I*, Tabrizi S*, Winnicki SM, Yen A, Park DJ, Griesemer D, Karlsson EK, Wong SH, Cabili M, Adegbola RA, Bamezai RNK, Hill AVS, Vannberg FO, Rinn JL, 1000 Genomes Project, Lander ES, Schaffner SF, Sabeti PC

Dis Aquat Organ. 104(3):237-47 Pales Espinosa E, Winnicki SM, Allam B.

J Invertebr Pathol. 113(1):26-34 Allam B, Carden WE, Ward JE, Ralph G, Winnicki SM, Pales Espinosa E.

Science 344(6190):1346-8
H3Africa Consortium

Cell 152(4):703-713
Grossman SR, Andersen KG, Shlyakhter I, Tabrizi S, Winnicki SM, Yen A, Park DJ, Griesemer D, Karlsson EK, Wong SH, Cabili M, Adegbola RA, Bamezai RNK, Hill AVS, Vannberg FO, Rinn JL, 1000 Genomes Project, Lander ES, Schaffner SF, Sabeti PC

Dis Aquat Organ. 104(3):237-47
Pales Espinosa E, Winnicki SM, Allam B.

J Invertebr Pathol. 113(1):26-34
Allam B, Carden WE, Ward JE, Ralph G, Winnicki SM, Pales Espinosa E.