Ben Briggs, MD, PhD
Clinical Instructor-VOL
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MD, PhD Medicine, Molecular Virology University at Buffalo (SUNY) 06/2012
• BS Biology Cornell University 052004

Interests

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• Viral Discovery
• Information Theory
• Molecular Diagnostics
• Unexplained Fever
• Nanopore Sequencing
• Metagenomics
• Complexity Science
• Enterovirus

Publications (16)

Top publication keywords:
Antilymphocyte SerumPreoperative CarePostoperative HemorrhageTicksQ FeverHemorrhageEncephalitis Viruses, Tick-BorneMetagenomicsSurgical Procedures, OperativePlasma CellsNoonan SyndromeMyelitisCoxiella burnetiiEndocarditis, BacterialEncephalitis, Tick-Borne

• Author Correction: Pan-viral serology implicates enteroviruses in acute flaccid myelitis.
  Nature medicine 2021 Schubert RD, Hawes IA, Ramachandran PS, Ramesh A, Crawford ED, Pak JE, Wu W, Cheung CK, O'Donovan BD, Tato CM, Lyden A, Tan M, Sit R, Sowa GM, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Banerji D, Khan LM, Bove R, Hauser SL…
• Use of Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing to Identify Pathogens in Pediatric Osteoarticular Infections.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Ramchandar N, Burns J, Coufal NG, Pennock A, Briggs B, Stinnett R, Bradley J, Arnold J, Liu GY, Pring M, Upasani VV, Rickert K, Dimmock D, Chiu C, Farnaes L, Cannavino C
• Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Pathogen Detection and Transcriptomic Analysis in Pediatric Central Nervous System Infections.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Ramchandar N, Coufal NG, Warden AS, Briggs B, Schwarz T, Stinnett R, Xie H, Schlaberg R, Foley J, Clarke C, Waldeman B, Enriquez C, Osborne S, Arrieta A, Salyakina D, Janvier M, Sendi P, Totapally BR,…
• Rapid pathogen detection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids.
  Nature medicine 2020 Gu W, Deng X, Lee M, Sucu YD, Arevalo S, Stryke D, Federman S, Gopez A, Reyes K, Zorn K, Sample H, Yu G, Ishpuniani G, Briggs B, Chow ED, Berger A, Wilson MR, Wang C, Hsu E, Miller S, DeRisi JL, Chiu …
• The Evaluation of Hematologic Screening and Perioperative Management in Patients with Noonan Syndrome: A Retrospective Chart Review.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2020 Briggs B, Savla D, Ramchandar N, Dimmock D, Le D, Thornburg CD

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• Pan-viral serology implicates enteroviruses in acute flaccid myelitis.
  Nature medicine 2019 Schubert RD, Hawes IA, Ramachandran PS, Ramesh A, Crawford ED, Pak JE, Wu W, Cheung CK, O'Donovan BD, Tato CM, Lyden A, Tan M, Sit R, Sowa GM, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Banerji D, Khan LM, Bove R, Hauser SL…
• Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis.
  The New England journal of medicine 2019 Wilson MR, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Arevalo S, Yu G, Neuhaus J, Federman S, Stryke D, Briggs B, Langelier C, Berger A, Douglas V, Josephson SA, Chow FC, Fulton BD, DeRisi JL, Gelfand JM, Naccache SN, …
• Tularemia-induced erythema multiforme minor in an 11-year-old girl.
  Pediatric dermatology 2018 Coates SJ, Briggs B, Cordoro KM
• Coxiella burnetii Endocarditis in a Child Caused by a New Genotype.
  The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2016 Briggs BJ, Raoult D, Hijazi ZM, Edouard S, Angelakis E, Logan LK
• Tick-borne encephalitis virus, Kyrgyzstan.
  Emerging infectious diseases 2011 Briggs BJ, Atkinson B, Czechowski DM, Larsen PA, Meeks HN, Carrera JP, Duplechin RM, Hewson R, Junushov AT, Gavrilova ON, Breininger I, Phillips CJ, Baker RJ, Hay J
• Tick-borne encephalitis and golden agers: position paper of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-borne encephalitis (ISW-TBE).
  Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) 2010 Jelenik Z, Keller M, Briggs B, Günther G, Haglund M, Hudeckova H, Jilkova E, Mickiene A, Sandell B, Steffen R, Strle F
• Bioinformatic and comparative localization of Rab proteins reveals functional insights into the uncharacterized GTPases Ypt10p and Ypt11p.
  Molecular and cellular biology 2006 Buvelot Frei S, Rahl PB, Nussbaum M, Briggs BJ, Calero M, Janeczko S, Regan AD, Chen CZ, Barral Y, Whittaker GR, Collins RN
• Role of clathrin-mediated endocytosis during vesicular stomatitis virus entry into host cells.
  Virology 2005 Sun X, Yau VK, Briggs BJ, Whittaker GR
• Polyclonal rabbit antithymocyte globulin triggers B-cell and plasma cell apoptosis by multiple pathways.
  Transplantation 2005 Zand MS, Vo T, Huggins J, Felgar R, Liesveld J, Pellegrin T, Bozorgzadeh A, Sanz I, Briggs BJ
• Discrete event modeling of CD4+ memory T cell generation.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2004 Zand MS, Briggs BJ, Bose A, Vo T
• Rab GTPases are recruited to chlamydial inclusions in both a species-dependent and species-independent manner.
  Infection and immunity 2003 Rzomp KA, Scholtes LD, Briggs BJ, Whittaker GR, Scidmore MA