Kristina Crona
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016-8050
Office: Don Myers Building – 106E
Phone: 202-885-3182
FAX: 202-885-3155
Email: kcrona at american dot edu
Research Area
Mathematical evolutionary biology, antimicrobial drug resistance, discrete mathematics, commutative algebra, see Research for more information.
Awards
Student Mengming Luo, semifinalist in Siemens Competition, 2017
World Technology Award in Health and Medicine, joint with Miriam Barlow, 2015 some
Student research
Some information for research students can be found at the bottom of the research page (see the last paragraph).
3-1-18: PLOS ONE publication Recombination and Peak jumping
1-20-18: Our PLOS ONE publication on antibiotic cycling, joint with Devin Greene at AU; Portia Mira, Juan Meza and Miriam Barlow at UC Merced, and Bernd Sturmfels at UC Berkeley, has had 25,000 page views.
PRESS RELEASE 1-3-18: Using Rank Order to Identify Complex Gene Interactions
12-20-17: eLife publication with Alex Gavryushkin, Devin Greene and Niko Beerenwinkel:
Inferring Genetic Interactions from Comparative Fitness Data
PRESS 5-27-15: Scientific American article on our PLOS ONE publication on antibiotic cycling, joint with Devin Greene at AU, Portia Mira, Juan Meza and Miriam Barlow at UC Merced, and Bernd Sturmfels at UC Berkeley.