David W. Ussery

◆ ARA Academy High Impact

Professor of Genetics

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

faculty

David.Ussery@OKState.edu

61 h-index 327 pubs 25,777 cited

Research Areas

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Microbial infections and disease research Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology Comparative Genomics Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Health and Medical Research Impacts

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OverviewAI-generated summary

David W. Ussery has focused on bioinformatic analysis of bacterial genomes since 1995. His research interests include the genomic surveillance of pathogens, the development of methods for monitoring wastewater for pathogens, and comparative genomics. He previously led the Arkansas Center for Genomic Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Arkansas. During his tenure, his group sequenced the first COVID-19 Omicron variant in Arkansas in 2021.

Ussery has taught graduate courses in the UAMS Department of BioMedical Informatics and has conducted over 30 comparative genomics workshops globally. He maintains collaborative projects with researchers in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway, Germany, and Belgium. His work has resulted in a significant publication record, with an h-index of 61 and over 25,777 citations across 327 publications. He has authored seven papers cited more than a thousand times and over a hundred papers cited at least ten times in the last five years.

His collaborators at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences include Mohammed S. Orloff, Yasir Rahmatallah, and Horacio Gómez-Acevedo, with whom he has co-authored 15 publications. He also collaborates with Ebrahim Jakoet from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on 14 shared publications. Ussery's research group actively maintains a lab website and leads ongoing research initiatives.

Metrics

  • h-index: 61
  • Publications: 327
  • Citations: 25,777

Selected Publications

  • A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Phase I/II Clinical Trial of a Human Papillomavirus Therapeutic Vaccine, PepCan, for Reducing Head and Neck Cancer Recurrence (2026) DOI
  • A Tracts of Homozygosity Approach Identifies Methylation-Regulated <i>CSMD1</i> Expression Targets in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancers Related to Smoking Behavior (2025) DOI
  • Using machine learning to predict the severity of salmonella infection (2025) DOI
  • Abstract 1923: A tract of homozygosity analysis reveals methylation-driven <i>CSMD1</i> expression in non-small cell lung cancers (2025) DOI
  • A Randomized Double-Blind Phase 2 Clinical Trial Treating Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia 2/3 with PepCan or <i>Candida</i> (2025) DOI
  • Investigating the origins of the mutational signatures in cancer (2025) DOI
  • C.S. Lewis Philosopher — Who Changed My Life. Notes on the Margins of The Magician's Twin (2024) DOI
  • Review 1: "Emergence of Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants with Decreased Sensitivity to Antivirals in Immunocompromised Patients with Persistent Infections" (2024) DOI
  • Reviews of "Emergence of Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants with Decreased Sensitivity to Antivirals in Immunocompromised Patients with Persistent Infections" (2024) DOI
  • DNA structural features and variability of complete MHC locus sequences (2024) DOI
  • Immune responses in a phase 2 clinical trial of peptide-based therapeutic human papillomavirus vaccine, PepCan, versus <i>Candida</i> adjuvant alone in treating cervical intraepithelial neoplasia 2/3. (2024) DOI
  • Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 using long-range PCR primers (2024) DOI
  • Review of: "Can the definitions of SARS-Cov-2 and Covid-19 stand up to epistemological scrutiny?" (2023) DOI
  • Review of: "Evolution of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 during the pandemic: mutation-limited or selection-limited?" (2023) DOI
  • Genomic Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Using Long-Range PCR Primers (2023) DOI

ARA Academy 2016 ARA Scholar

Collaborators

Researchers in the database who share publications

Mohammed S. Orloff University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 15 shared publications Yasir Rahmatallah University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 15 shared publications Horacio Gómez-Acevedo University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 15 shared publications Ebrahim Jakoet University of Arkansas at Little Rock 14 shared publications Visanu Wanchai University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 5 shared publications Intawat Nookaew University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 4 shared publications Michael Scott Robeson University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 4 shared publications Jasmine Crane University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 4 shared publications

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