Education

Ph.D, Emory University

B.S, Spelman College

Biography

Jessica Coates, Ph.D. is a 2013 graduate of the Spelman College biology department. She completed her Ph.D. at Emory University under the guidance of Drs. Katia Koelle and Paul Rota where her work focused on utilizing statistical approaches for understanding within and between host dynamics of infectious agent replication under preventative and protective public health strategies. Following graduate school, she completed a Visiting Scholar position on the Responsible and Inclusive Technology team at IBM and Health Equity Navigator position at Mercer University. In her spare time, she is an avid traveler, reader, and dog mom!

Courses Taught

Bio 233 - Microbiology

Research Interests

Public health outcomes, Statistical modeling, health policy analysis, responsible and inclusive technology, diversity equity and inclusion, health product development

Publications

2022

Coates, J., Bostick, K.J., Jones, B.A. et al. What is the impact of aminoglycoside exposure on soil and plant root-associated microbiota? A systematic review protocol. Environ Evid 11, 18 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-022-00274-y

Foreman M, Coates J, Adebiyi A. The Grand Challenge of Data in Equitably Digitizing Black Maternal Health. ACM CHI. 2022.

 

2020

Latner DR, Sowers SB, Anthony K, Colley H, Badeau C, Coates J, Wong P, Fakile Y, Interiano C, Pannell KB, Leung Pineda V, Patel MM, Rota PA, Limbago BM, Hickman CJ. Qualitative Variation among Commercial Immunoassays for Detection of Measles-Specific IgG. J Clin Microbiol. 2020 May 26;58(6):e00265-20. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00265-20. PMID: 32238434; PMCID: PMC7269388.

 

2018

Coates J, Park BR, Le D, Şimşek E, Chaudhry W, Kim M. Antibiotic-induced population fluctuations and stochastic clearance of bacteria. Elife. 2018 Mar 6;7:e32976. doi: 10.7554/eLife.32976. PMID: 29508699; PMCID: PMC5847335.

 

2015

Stutz WE, Schmerer M, Coates JL, Bolnick DI. Among-lake reciprocal transplants induce convergent expression of immune genes in threespine stickleback. Mol Ecol. 2015 Sep;24(18):4629-46. doi: 10.1111/mec.13295. Epub 2015 Jul 30. PMID: 26118468.