Publications

Note

* = equal contribution/co-first

Peer-reviewed articles

First-author publications

  1. Zhao A, Cui E, Leroux A, Zhou X, Muschelli J, Lindquist M, Crainiceanu CM (2024) Objectively measured physical activity using wrist-worn accelerometers as a predictor of incident Alzheimer’s Disease in the UK Biobank. The Journals of Gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, glae287. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glae287

  2. Zhao A, Cui E, Leroux A, Lindquist M, Crainiceanu CM (2023). Evaluating the prediction performance of objective physical activity measures for incident Parkinson’s disease in the UK Biobank. Journal of Neurology, 270(12), 5913–5923. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-023-11939-0

  3. Cui E*, Zhao A* , Crainiceanu C, Leroux A. Inference for the Extended Functional Cox Model: A UK Biobank Case Study (submitted to Statistics in Medicine).

  4. Zhao A, Lindquist M, Caffo B. Comparing stochastic model performance with applications to fMRI data (in preparation).

Other publications

  1. Lindquist M A, Smith B B, Kannan A, Zhao A, Caffo B (2025). Measuring the Functioning Human Brain. Annual Review of Statistics and its Application,. https://doi.org/10.1146/annuarev-statistics-040522-100329

  2. Morelli K, Meier SM, Choudhury M, Zhao A, Willis M, Barral M, Vogel J (2025). A fluid droplet harvests the force generated by shrinking microtubules in living cells (accepted by Cell Biology).

  3. Wanigatunga AA, Dong Y, Jin M, Leroux A, Cui, E, Zhou X, Zhao A, Schrack JA, Bandeen Roche K, Walston J, Xue QL, Lindquist MA, Crainiceanu CM (2024). Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity at Any Dose Reduces All-Cause Dementia Risk Regardless of Frailty Status. JAMDA. Accepted on 12.2.2024.

Presentations

  1. Zhao A, Cui E, Leroux A, Lindquist M, Crainiceanu C (August 2025). Data-Driven Risk Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Device-Measured Physical Activity and Robust Variable Selection. Invited session for Joint Statisical Meetings, Nashville TN.

  2. Zhao A, Cui E, Leroux A, Lindquist M, Crainiceanu C (March 2025). Inference for the Extended Functional Cox Model: A UK Biobank Case Study. Contributed session for ENAR International Biometric Society, New Orleans LA.

  3. Zhao A, Cui E, Leroux A, Lindquist M, Crainiceanu C (May 2024). Predicting Time-To-Event Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease and Mortality using Objective Physical Activity Measures in the UK Biobank, 10th Annual Joint Session of the BHS Lab, ENGAGE Lab, and SMART-WIT groups, Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Baltimore MD.

  4. Sim S, Morelli K, Zhao A, Vogel J (May 2023). L’effet de la phosphorylation de la tubuline-y sur la kinésine-5 et sur la formation de paires de microtubules dans le fuseau mitotique, 90e Congrès de l’ACFAS, Université de Montréal, Montréal Canada.

  5. Zhao A, Cui E, Leroux A, Lindquist M, Crainiceanu C, (April 2023). Physical activity to predict Parkinson’s disease in the UK Biobank, 8th Annual Joint Session of the BHS Lab, ENGAGE Lab, and SMART-WIT groups, Johns Hopkins Univeristy, Baltimore MD.

  6. Sim S, Morelli K, Zhao A, Vogel J, (May 2022). Le rôle de la phosphorylation de la tubuline-y dans l’organisation des microtubules du fuseau mitotique médiée par la kinésine-5, 89e Congrès de l’ACFAS, Université de Montréal, Montréal Canada.

Posters and Abstracts

  1. Morelli K, Meier SM, Zhao A, Willis M, Barral Y, Vogel J, (2023). Interrogating the material properties of a microtubule (+) end-associated nanoscale condensate in living cells using super-resolution microscopy, American Society for Cell Biology Cell Bio Virtual.

  2. Sim S, Zhao A, Vogel J (2023). Phosphoregulation of y-tubulin regulates anti-parallel microtubule bundling through kinesin-5, 8th Meeting of the International Union of Microbeam Analysis Societies.

  3. Sim S, Zhao A, Vogel J (2023). y-Tubulin phosphoregulation controls interpolar microtubule organization through kinesin-5, Mitotic spindle: From living and synthetic systems to theory.

  4. Sim S, Morelli K, Zhao A, Vogel J (2022). How does y-tubulin phosphoregulation control microtubule identity during spindle assembly?, 4th Annual CRBS Symposium, Montréal, Canada.

  5. Sim S, Morelli K, Zhao A, Vogel J (2021). Phosphoregulation of y-Tubulin Directs Spindle Assembly Through Kinesin-5 and Microtubule Number, American Society for Cell Biology Cell Bio Virtual.