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Kristen Bjorkman

University of Colorado Boulder
Verified email at colorado.edu
Cited by 642

Higher viral load drives infrequent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 transmission between asymptomatic residence hall roommates

KK Bjorkman, TK Saldi, E Lasda… - The Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic spread to >200 countries in <6 months.
To understand coronavirus spread, determining transmission rate and defining factors that …

Effectiveness of building-level sewage surveillance during both community-spread and sporadic-infection phases of SARS-CoV-2 in a university campus population

…, N Ortega, T Shimek, J Witteman, KK Bjorkman… - FEMS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Pathogen surveillance within wastewater rapidly progressed during the SARS-CoV-2
pandemic and informed public health management. In addition to the successful monitoring of …

Rates of myogenesis and myofiber numbers are reduced in late gestation IUGR fetal sheep

…, SC Shaw, RA Sclafani, KK Bjorkman… - Journal of …, 2020 - joe.bioscientifica.com
Intrauterine growth-restricted (IUGR) fetuses are born with reduced skeletal muscle mass.
We hypothesized that reduced rates of myogenesis would contribute to fewer and smaller …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 transmission and impacts of unvaccinated-only screening in populations of mixed vaccination status

KM Bubar, CE Middleton, KK Bjorkman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Screening programs that test only the unvaccinated population have been proposed and
implemented to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 spread, implicitly assuming that the unvaccinated …

Higher viral load drives infrequent SARS-CoV-2 transmission between asymptomatic residence hall roommates

KK Bjorkman, TK Saldi, E Lasda, LC Bauer, J Kovarik… - MedRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
In 2019-2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spread to over 200 countries in less than six months.
To understand the basis of this aggressive spread, it is essential to determine the …

miR-206 enforces a slow muscle phenotype

KK Bjorkman, MG Guess, BC Harrison… - Journal of cell …, 2020 - journals.biologists.com
Striated muscle is a highly specialized collection of tissues with contractile properties that
vary according to functional needs. Although muscle fiber types are established postnatally, …

Breath analysis by ultra-sensitive broadband laser spectroscopy detects SARS-CoV-2 infection

…, YC Chan, J Toscano, KK Bjorkman… - Journal of Breath …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid testing is essential to fighting pandemics such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19),
the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-…

[HTML][HTML] High rates of observed face mask use at Colorado universities align with students' opinions about masking and support the safety and viability of in-person …

…, MJ Bailey, S Wasshuber, R Huntley, KK Bjorkman… - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, colleges and universities have
focused on creating policies, such as mask mandates, to minimize COVID-19 transmission both …

[HTML][HTML] miR-1/206 downregulates splicing factor Srsf9 to promote C2C12 differentiation

KK Bjorkman, M Buvoli, EK Pugach, MM Polmear… - Skeletal Muscle, 2019 - Springer
Background Myogenesis is driven by specific changes in the transcriptome that occur
during the different stages of muscle differentiation. In addition to controlled transcriptional …

[PDF][PDF] Frequency comb and machine learning-based breath analysis for COVID-19 classification

…, YC Chan, J Toscano, KK Bjorkman… - Preprint at https://doi …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Breath analysis examines the hundreds or thousands of low-concentration molecular species
present in exhaled human breath and correlates them with particular health conditions or …