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James Scott
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Latest papers
Microbial Diversity Estimation and Hill Number Calculation Using the Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process.
Statistics in medicine · 2026
Emerging Human Health Problems Caused by Pathogenic and Immuno-activating Fungi.
Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2025 · senior author
Inconsistencies within the proposed framework for stabilizing fungal nomenclature risk further confusion.
Journal of clinical microbiology · 2024
Latest funding
- $50,000
Copper embedded fabrics and facemasks for rapid, irreversible destruction of Covid-19
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
Genes by environment interactions in the development of non-communicable chronic respiratory diseases, asthma and COPD.
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $1,953,002
Gene and environment effects on lung health and risk for chronic respiratory disease, asthma & COPD
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
10 publications.
Microbial Diversity Estimation and Hill Number Calculation Using the Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process.
McGregor K, Parsons T, Simons E, Scott J, Kozyrskyj A, Quince C
Emerging Human Health Problems Caused by Pathogenic and Immuno-activating Fungi.
Summerbell R, Scott J
Inconsistencies within the proposed framework for stabilizing fungal nomenclature risk further confusion.
Kidd SE, Hagen F, Halliday CL, Abdolrasouli A, Boekhout T, Crous PW, Ellis DH, Elvy J, Forrest GN, Groenewald M, Hahn RC, Houbraken J, Rodrigues AM, Scott J, Sorrell TC, Summerbell RC, Tsui CKM, Yurkov A, Chen SC-A
Assessing secondhand and thirdhand tobacco smoke exposure in Canadian infants using questionnaires, biomarkers, and machine learning
Parks J, McLean KE, McCandless L, de Souza RJ, Brook JR, Scott J, Turvey SE, Mandhane PJ, Becker AB, Azad MB
Monkey finger mycology? First case of otomycosis externa caused by Trichophyton simii after encounter with a monkey.
Krajden S, Summerbell RC, Datt A, Hawke M, Scott J
The type isolate of a rare Phaeoacremonium species as a cause of human eumycetoma.
Belkin A, Summerbell RC, Krajden S, Scott J
Influenza virus RNA recovered from droplets and droplet nuclei emitted by adults in an acute care setting.
Yip L, Finn M, Granados A, Prost K, McGeer A, Gubbay JB, Scott J, Mubareka S
Endotoxin and β-1,3-d-Glucan in Concentrated Ambient Particles Induce Rapid Increase in Blood Pressure in Controlled Human Exposures.
Zhong J, Urch B, Speck M, Coull BA, Koutrakis P, Thorne PS, Scott J, Liu L, Brook RD, Behbod B, Gibson H, Silverman F, Mittleman MA, Baccarelli AA, Gold DR
Exposure to Beta-(1,3)-D-glucan in house dust at age 7-10 is associated with airway hyperresponsiveness and atopic asthma by age 11-14.
Maheswaran D, Zeng Y, Chan-Yeung M, Scott J, Osornio-Vargas A, Becker AB, Kozyrskyj AL
Behind the mask: Determinants of nurse's adherence to facial protective equipment.
Nichol K, McGeer A, Bigelow P, O'Brien-Pallas L, Scott J, Holness DL
Copper embedded fabrics and facemasks for rapid, irreversible destruction of Covid-19
Principal investigators: Mostaghimi, Javad
Genes by environment interactions in the development of non-communicable chronic respiratory diseases, asthma and COPD.
Principal investigators: Subbarao, Padmaja; Azad, Meghan; Brook, Jeffrey R; de Souza, Russell J; Kozyrskyj, Anita L; Lou, Wen-Yi W; Paré, Guillaume; Sears, Malcolm R; Surette, Michael G
Keywords: Asthma; Birth Cohort; Chronic Respiratory Disease; Copd; Epidemiology; Genetics; Indoor Environment; Lung Function; Nutrition; Respiratory Infection
Gene and environment effects on lung health and risk for chronic respiratory disease, asthma & COPD
Principal investigators: Subbarao, Padmaja; Brook, Jeffrey R; de Souza, Russell J; Duan, Qingling; Kozyrskyj, Anita L; Lou, Wen-Yi W; Surette, Michael G
Keywords: Asthma; Environment; Genes; Infections; Longitudinal Cohort Studies; Lung Function; Microbiome; Nutrition
Characterization and mitigation of experimental and natural viral bioaerosols
Principal investigators: Mubareka, Samira; Savory, Eric
Keywords: Aerosol Detection; Bioaerosols; Biosafety; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Ferret Influenza Transmission Model; Infection Control; Particle Imaging Velocimetry (Piv); Public Health; Pulsed Ultraviolet Light; Respiratory Viruses
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Padmaja Subbarao and Padmaja Subbarao: 228 shared papers
- Padmaja Subbarao and Malcolm Sears: 196 shared papers
- Malcolm Sears and Padmaja Subbarao: 96 shared papers
- Russell de Souza and Padmaja Subbarao: 28 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and Samira Mubareka: 25 shared papers
- Russell de Souza and Padmaja Subbarao: 20 shared papers
- Russell de Souza and Malcolm Sears: 15 shared papers
- Allison McGeer and James Scott: 2 shared papers
- Russell de Souza and Lawrence McCandless: 1 shared paper
- Russell de Souza and James Scott: 1 shared paper
- Padmaja Subbarao and Anita Kozyrskyj: 1 shared paper
- Padmaja Subbarao and Lawrence McCandless: 1 shared paper
- Padmaja Subbarao and James Scott: 1 shared paper
- Malcolm Sears and Anita Kozyrskyj: 1 shared paper
- Malcolm Sears and Lawrence McCandless: 1 shared paper
- Malcolm Sears and James Scott: 1 shared paper
- Alvaro Osornio Vargas and James Scott: 1 shared paper
- Padmaja Subbarao and Anita Kozyrskyj: 1 shared paper
- Padmaja Subbarao and James Scott: 1 shared paper
- Anita Kozyrskyj and James Scott: 1 shared paper
- Samira Mubareka and James Scott: 1 shared paper
- Samira Mubareka and Bruce Urch: 1 shared paper
- Lawrence McCandless and James Scott: 1 shared paper
- James Scott and Richard Summerbell: 1 shared paper
- James Scott and Bruce Urch: 1 shared paper
- Occupational & Environmental Health Division
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
- Pediatrics
- Medicine
- Epidemiology Division
- Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Allison McGeer
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Richard Summerbell
Occupational & Environmental Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Bruce Urch
Occupational & Environmental Health Division
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Padmaja Subbarao
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Malcolm Sears
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Alvaro Osornio Vargas
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Padmaja Subbarao
Epidemiology Division
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Anita Kozyrskyj
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Samira Mubareka
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Russell de Souza
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Lawrence McCandless
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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