Publications

• Zhang M, Liu Y, Parker J, An L, and Sun X (2023) Flexible Analysis of Spatial Transcriptomics Data (FAST): A Deconvolution Approach. 

• LaFleur B, Curiel-Lewandrowski C, Tapia E, Parker J, White L, Chow HS, South AP. Characterizing Dermal Transcriptional Change in the Progression from Sun-Protected Skin to Actinic Keratosis. J Invest Dermatol. 2023 Jul;143(7):1299-1302.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2022.12.021. Epub 2023 Jan 26. PMID: 36708948; PMCID: PMC10293087. 

• Parker, J.+, Zhang, Y.+, LaFleur, B., and Sun, X.* (2022) Computationally efficient Kalman filter approaches for fitting smoothing splines. InTechOpen

•  Lutrick, Karen, Holly Groom, Ashley L. Fowlkes, Kimberly D. Groover, Manjusha Gaglani, Patrick Rivers, Allison L. Naleway, Joel Parker et al. "COVID-19 vaccine perceptions and uptake in a national prospective cohort of essential workers." Vaccine (2021)

•  Ellingson, Katherine D., Joe K. Gerald, Xiaoxiao Sun, James Hollister, Karen Lutrick, Joel Parker, Patrick Rivers et al. "Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Personnel, First Responders, and Other Essential Workers During a Prevaccination COVID-19 Surge in Arizona." In JAMA Health Forum, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. e213318-e213318. American Medical Association, 2021.

•  Lutrick, Karen, Katherine D. Ellingson, Zoe Baccam, Patrick Rivers, Shawn Beitel, Joel Parker, James Hollister et al. "COVID-19 Infection, Reinfection, and Vaccine Effectiveness in a Prospective Cohort of Arizona Frontline/Essential Workers: The AZ HEROES Research Protocol." JMIR Research Protocols (2021).

Abstracts/Presentations

• Parker, Joel. (2023) "MetabolomicsPipeline: An analysis pipeline for metabolomics research." [UofA data science day conference].

• Parker, Joel. (2022) "Benchmarking Methods for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis."[Webinar]. Cyverse.org

• Parker, Joel. (2022) "EDGE: Ensemble Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Gene Extraction." [Topic Contributed Talk] Joint Statistical Meeting, Washington, DC

• Parker, Joel. (2022) "A Python Pipeline for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Analysis."[Webinar]. Cyverse.org 

• Morrill KE, Lopez-Pentecost M, Parker J, Garcia DO, Jacobs ET (2022). Association of dietary patterns and liver steatosis and fibrosis among Mexican Americans in NHANES 2017-2018. [Abstract]. American Association for Cancer Research.  

• Parker, Joel (2021), Trajectory-Based Functional Clustering for Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data Analysis. [College-wide Seminar]. University of Arizona. 

Mentorship

• Ruhland, Caitlin. (2023). Deferentially expressed gene detection in spatial transcriptomics data. PHIRE Scholar. Mentors: Sun X, Parker J.

Thesis

•  Parker, J. A. (2021). Trajectory-Based Functional Clustering of Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data. In: The University of Arizona. (Masters)

Acknowledgements 

• Fowlkes, Ashley, et al. "Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing SARS-CoV-2 infection among frontline workers before and during B. 1.617. 2 (Delta) variant predominance eight US locations, December 2020,August 2021."Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 70.34 (2021): 1167. 

• Thompson MG, Burgess JL, et al., Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Personnel, First Responders, and Other Essential and Frontline Workers - Eight U.S. Locations, December 2020-March 2021. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2021 Apr 2;70(13):495-500. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7013e3. PMID: 33793460; PMCID: PMC8022879.