Todd L. Parsons
A not-so-serious man.
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Contact Information
LPSM, CNRS 8001
Sorbonne Université
Campus Pierre et Marie Curie
4 place Jussieu
75005 Paris, France
Research Interests
Stochastic population models arising from ecology, epidemiology and population genetics.
Publications
- Rubin, J. E., Earn D. J. D., Greenwood, P. E., Parsons, T. L., and Abbot, K. C. (2022) Irregular population cycles driven by environmental stochasticity and saddle crawlbys Oikos e09290. Supporting Information.
- Parsons, T. L. and Worden, L. (2021) Assessing the risk of cascading COVID-19 outbreaks from prison-to-prison transfers. Epidemics 37: 100532.
- Day, T., Parsons, T. L., Lambert, A., and Gandon, S. (2020) The Price equation and evolutionary epidemiology. Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. B 375: 20190357.
- Billaud, O., Moen, D. S., Parsons, T. L., and Morlon, H. (2020) Estimating diversity through time using molecular phylogenies: old and species-poor frog families are the remnants of a diverse past. Syst. Biol.. 69 (2): 363-383.
- Parsons, T. L., Lambert, A., Day, T., and Gandon, S. (2018) Pathogen evolution in finite populations: slow and steady spreads the best. J. Royal Soc. Interface. 15 (147): 20180135. Supporting Information.
- Parsons, T. L. (2018) Invasion probabilities, hitting times, and some fluctuation theory for the stochastic logistic process. J. Math. Biol. 77 (4): 1193-1231.
- Parsons, T. L. and Rogers, T. (2017) Dimension reduction for stochastic dynamical systems forced onto a manifold by large drift: a constructive approach with examples from theoretical biology. J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 50 (41): 415601
- Harris, K., Parsons, T. L., Ijaz, U. Z., Lahti, L., Holmes, I., and Quince, C. (2017) Linking statistical and ecological theory: Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity as a hierarchical Dirichlet process. Proc. IEEE 105 (3): 516-529. Supporting Information
- Stewart, A. J., Parsons, T. L., and Plotkin, J. B. (2016) Evolutionary consequences of behavioral diversity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113 (45): E7003-E7009. Supporting Information.
- Stewart, A. J., Parsons, T. L., and Plotkin, J. B. (2012) Environmental robustness and the evolvability of populations. Evolution 66 (5): 1598-1612. Supporting Information.
- Morlon, H., Parsons, T. L., and Plotkin, J. B. (2011) Reconciling molecular phylogenies with the fossil record. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108 (39): 16327-16332. Supporting Information.
- Draghi, J. A., Parsons, T. L.,and Plotkin, J. B. (2011) Epistasis increases the rate of conditionally neutral substitution in an adapting population. Genetics 187 (4): 1139-1152.
- Parsons, T. L., Quince, C., and Plotkin, J. B. (2010) Some consequences of demographic stochasticity in population genetics. Genetics 185 (4): 1345-1354.
- Draghi, J. A., Parsons, T. L., Wagner, G. P., and Plotkin, J. B. (2010) Mutational robustness can facilitate adaptation. Nature 463 (7279): 353-355. Supporting Information.
- Parsons, T. L., Quince, C., and Plotkin, J. B. (2008) Absorption and fixation times for neutral and quasi-neutral populations with density dependence. Theor. Pop. Biol. 74 (4): 302-310.
- Parsons, T. L. and Quince, C. (2007) Fixation in haploid populations exhibiting density dependence II: The quasi-neutral case. Theor. Pop. Biol. 72 (4): 468-479.
- Parsons, T. L. and Quince, C. (2007) Fixation in haploid populations exhibiting density dependence I: The non-neutral case. Theor. Pop. Biol. 72 (1): 121-135.
Preprints
- Gandon, S., Lambert, A., Day, T., and Parsons, T. L. The speed of vaccination rollout and the risk of pathogen adaptation.
- McGregor, K., Labbe, A., Greenwood C. M. T., Parsons, T. L., and Quince, C. Microbial community modelling and diversity estimation using the hierarchical Pitman-Yor process.
- Bowen, E. J., Parsons, T. L., Curtis, T. P., Plotkin, J. B., and Quince, C. Integrating theory and experiment to explain the breakdown of population synchrony in a complex microbial community.
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