David Rasmussen
Associate Professor
Bioinformatics Research Center
Ricks Hall 312
(919) 515-5198 drasmus@ncsu.edu WebsiteBio
David Rasmussen joined the DEPP faculty in 2018 as part of the Emerging Plant Disease and Global Food Security Cluster.
Education
B.A. Biology Reed College 2007
Ph.D. Biology Duke University 2014
Area(s) of Expertise
David leads the Phylodynamics Research Group at NC State which develops new phylogenetic and computational methods for genomic epidemiology. Recent work by the group has centered around quantifying the fitness of viral pathogens in terms of their transmission potential between hosts using genomic sequence data. David's group also studies how plant viruses such as Tomato spotted wilt virus adapt to novel hosts and expand their host range by resolving fitness tradeoffs between hosts.
Publications
- Phylodynamics beyond neutrality: the impact of incomplete purifying selection on viral phylogenies and inference , PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (2025)
- Disease Progress and Detection of a California Resistance-Breaking Strain of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Tomato with LAMP and CRISPR-Cas12a Assays , PhytoFrontiers™ (2024)
- Exploring the Accuracy and Limits of Algorithms for Localizing Recombination Breakpoints , Molecular Biology and Evolution (2024)
- Phylodynamics beyond neutrality: The impact of incomplete purifying selection on viral phylogenies and inference , (2024)
- Quantifying the genomic determinants of fitness inE. coliST131 using phylodynamics , (2024)
- Quantifying the strength of viral fitness trade-offs between hosts: a meta-analysis of pleiotropic fitness effects , Evolution Letters (2024)
- Diversity and Pathobiology of an Ilarvirus Unexpectedly Detected in Diverse Plants and Global Sequencing Data , PHYTOPATHOLOGY (2023)
- Espalier: Efficient Tree Reconciliation and Ancestral Recombination Graphs Reconstruction Using Maximum Agreement Forests , Systematic Biology (2023)
- Evolutionarily diverse origins of deformed wing viruses in western honey bees , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)
- Exploring the accuracy and limits of algorithms for localizing recombination breakpoints , (2023)