Ph.D. Student Profile

Jonathan  Boss, BS, MS

Jonathan Boss, BS, MS

  • Doctoral Candidate
  • Cognate: Biostatistics

Education

  • MS Biostatistics, University of Michigan (2018)
  • BS Mathematics, Advanced and Statistics, Michigan State University (2016)

Research Interests & Projects

Continuous shrinkage priors, multi-pollutant modeling, high-dimensional mediation analysis, data integration. Applied collaborations in environmental statistics ranging from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, birth outcomes, and racial differences in telomere length.

Selected Publications

  • Goutman SA, Boss J, Guo K, Alakwaa FM, Patterson A, Kim S, Savelieff MG, Hur J, Feldman EL. Untargeted metabolomics yields insight into ALS disease mechanisms. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2020;91(12):1329-1338.
     
    Boss J, Mukherjee B, Ferguson KK, Aker A, Alshawabkeh AN, Cordero JF, Meeker JD, Kim S. Estimating outcome-exposure associations when exposure biomarker detection limits vary across batches. Epidemiology. 2019;30(5):746-755.
     
    Goutman SA, Boss J, Patterson A, Mukherjee B, Batterman S, Feldman EL. High plasma concentrations of organic pollutants negatively impact survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2019;90(8):907-912.
     
    Boss J, Zhai J, Aung MT, Ferguson KK, Johns LE, McElrath TF, Meeker JD, Mukherjee B. Associations between mixtures of urinary phthalate metabolites with gestational age at delivery: a time to event analysis using summative phthalate risk scores. Environ Health. 2018;17(1):56.