I'm an assistant professor @ Cornell University Vet School. I lead a team of transdisciplinary researchers to shape, develop and coordinate integrative research into how data-driven modeling to end current and prevent future pandemics. The Bento lab's research agenda seeks to understand the dynamics of biological populations and epidemics, focusing on how to bring experimental and observational data together with mathematical theory. Tackling biological questions of public application and importance. The lab ongoing research falls into the following themes: (i) pathogen evolution and phylodynamics; (ii) seasonal disease transmission; (iii) anthropogenic effects (e.g. vaccines); (iv) adaptive behavior.
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Brazil
United States
Senegal
India
United Kingdom
Panama
South Africa
Argentina
China
Australia
Suriname
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Bangladesh
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Haiti
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
People: Ana Bento, Shweta Bansal, Pejman Rohani
2017 – 2023 Continue Reading Vaccine hesitancy and erosion of herd immunity: harnessing big data to forecast disease re-emergence
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
People: Ana Bento, Pejman Rohani, Aaron King
2012 – 2019 Continue Reading Integrating immunology, epidemiology, and evolution to understand and control per
Manuli ER, Hua X, Scachetti GC, Forato J, Claro IM, Pereira GM, Sacchetto L, Cortes-Azuero O, Bernardo AC, Resende CF, Bacarov NBS, Capuani L, de Lima STS, de Jesus R, Kato RB, Salgado BB, Singh CML, Pereira NC, Reis RS, Albuquerque SRL, Stanton R, Sampaio VS, Bento AI, Cunha MP, Ratmann O, Faria NR, Weaver SC, Lalwani PJ, Salje H, Costa AG, Proenca-Modena JL, Sabino EC, de Souza WM. (2026). Transmission dynamics of Oropouche virus in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nature medicine
Chen S, Hupert N, Bento AI. (2026). Vaccine coverage and quarantine during a school-based measles outbreak, South Carolina, USA, 2025-2026. Vaccine, (88)
Rodríguez X, Perez-Jimenez JG, Alexander LW, Lezcano-Coba C, Galué J, Juárez Y, Beltrán D, Smith DR, Kadir M, Ali DW, Corrales R, Rodriguez LT, Valdiviezo GE, Thomas QK, Cicalo A 4th., Fitzpatrick M, Luquette A, Sayer C, Cer RZ, Malagon F, Grajales IA, Rivera LF, González-R Z, Antioco J, Walters-Valdes E, Meneghello-Ponce N, Vittor AY, Escobar-Lee K, Abouganem-Shaw A, Rodríguez F, Aguirre E, Loyola S, Tinoco Y, Moreno B, Chen-Germán M, Gómez-Angelo A, Correa-Duarte S, Acevedo J, Ramos B, de Antinori ME, Gonzalez C, Chavarria O, Gondola J, Moreno A, Aguilar C, Gonzáles P, Jackman C, Cedeño H, Gutiérrez B, Kraemer MUG, Saldaña V, DeAntonio R, Martinez AA, Armién B, Pascale JM, Calvo A, Nogueira ML, de Souza WM, Hanley KA, Faria NR, Dorigatti I, Waggoner J, Vasilakis N, Donnelly CA, López-Vergès S, Bishop-Lilly KA, Mavian C, Bento AI, Carrera JP. (2026). Integrated surveillance resolves Darién paradox of Oropouche virus emergence in Panama's migration corridor. Research square
Penha GB, D'Bastiani E, Silva MFS, da Silva Almeida ME, Almeida-Souza PA, Alexander LW, Chaves DCC, Gomes de Andrade R, de Almeida Batista EP, Guimarães NR, Adelino TÉR, Tomé LMR, Ribeiro BM, Alcântara LCJ, Bandeira MDC, Campos FS, Bento AI, Eiras ÁE, Vieira Santos de Abreu F. (2026). Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Extra-Amazonian Oropouche Outbreak Areas of Minas Gerais, Brazil: Ecological Insights into Virus Transmission. Viruses, 18(3)
Hong SL, Stockman M, Nova Blanco JR, Van Cleemput C, Ahouidi A, Armién B, Bento A, Bollen N, Conde Pereira C, Freitas C, Hofstra M, Jordan MR, Kashima S, Gonçalves CCM, Campelo de Albuquerque E Melo CF, Nahata K, de Oliveira EC, Parra L, Saenz C, de Souza W, Stanojevic M, Rabinowitz PM, Vandamme AM. (2025). Transdisciplinary training to address challenges in genomic epidemiology of infectious diseases. Frontiers in public health, (13)
Murrell CM, Sabaawy A, Wang X, Hashimoto N, Ceres K, Sun Y, Zehr JD, Lehane A, Mader E, Bailey N, Lilly MV, Plimpton L, Reboul G, Brown JJ, Sams K, Singh L, Seiz E, Bourgikos E, Vogels CBF, Ciota AT, Schnurr V, Grenier J, Berthet X, Bento AI, Harrington L, Diuk-Wasser M, Olarte-Castillo X, Goodman LB. (2025). TITAN-RNA: A hybrid-capture sequencing panel detects known and unknown Flaviviridae for diagnostics and vector surveillance. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Bouchez V, Moreno-Mingorance A, Mir-Cros A, Landier A, Armatys N, Guillot S, Martín-Gómez MT, Rodrigues C, Toubiana J, Bento AI, Weigand MR, González-López JJ, Brisse S. (2025). No innocent bystanders: pertussis vaccination and evolutionary parallelisms between Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella pertussis. Microbial genomics, 11(11)
Naveca FG, Almeida TAP, Souza V, Nascimento V, Silva D, Nascimento F, Mejía M, Oliveira YS, Rocha L, Xavier N, Lopes J, Maito R, Meneses C, Amorim T, Fé L, Camelo FS, Silva SCA, Melo AX, Fernandes LG, Oliveira MAA, Arcanjo AR, Araújo G, André Júnior W, Carvalho RLC, Rodrigues R, Albuquerque S, Mattos C, Silva C, Linhares A, Rodrigues T, Mariscal F, Morais MA, Presibella MM, Marques NFQ, Paiva A, Ribeiro K, Vieira D, Queiroz JADS, Passos-Silva AM, Abdalla L, Santos JH, Figueiredo RMP, Cruz ACR, Casseb LN, Chiang JO, Frutuoso LV, Rossi A, Freitas L, Campos TL, Wallau GL, Moreira E, Lins Neto RD, Alexander LW, Sun Y, Filippis AMB, Gräf T, Arantes I, Bento AI, Delatorre E, Bello G. (2024). Human outbreaks of a novel reassortant Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region. Nature medicine
Lipsitch M, Bassett MT, Brownstein JS, Elliott P, Eyre D, Grabowski MK, Hay JA, Johansson MA, Kissler SM, Larremore DB, Layden JE, Lessler J, Lynfield R, MacCannell D, Madoff LC, Metcalf CJE, Meyers LA, Ofori SK, Quinn C, Bento AI, Reich NG, Riley S, Rosenfeld R, Samore MH, Sampath R, Slayton RB, Swerdlow DL, Truelove S, Varma JK, Grad YH. (2024). Infectious disease surveillance needs for the United States: lessons from Covid-19. Frontiers in public health, (12)
Klein B, Hartle H, Shrestha M, Zenteno AC, Barros Sierra Cordera D, Nicolás-Carlock JR, Bento AI, Althouse BM, Gutierrez B, Escalera-Zamudio M, Reyes-Sandoval A, Pybus OG, Vespignani A, Díaz-Quiñonez JA, Scarpino SV, Kraemer MUG. (2024). Spatial scales of COVID-19 transmission in Mexico. PNAS nexus, 3(9)
Hill V, Githinji G, Vogels CBF, Bento AI, Chaguza C, Carrington CVF, Grubaugh ND. (2023). Toward a global virus genomic surveillance network. Cell host & microbe, 31(6)
Renard A, Pérez Lombardini F, Pacheco Zapata M, Porphyre T, Bento A, Suzán G, Roiz D, Roche B, Arnal A. (2023). Interaction of Human Behavioral Factors Shapes the Transmission of Arboviruses by Aedes and Culex Mosquitoes. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 12(12)
Ejima K, Kim KS, Bento AI, Iwanami S, Fujita Y, Aihara K, Shibuya K, Iwami S. (2022). Estimation of timing of infection from longitudinal SARS-CoV-2 viral load data: mathematical modelling study. BMC infectious diseases, 22(1)
Jeong YD, Ejima K, Kim KS, Joohyeon W, Iwanami S, Fujita Y, Jung IH, Shibuya K, Iwami S, Bento AI, Ajelli M. (2022). Designing isolation guidelines for COVID-19 patients utilizing rapid antigen tests: a simulation study using viral dynamics models. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Ash T, Bento AM, Kaffine D, Rao A, Bento AI. (2022). Author Correction: Disease-economy trade-offs under alternative epidemic control strategies. Nature communications, 13(1)
Jeong YD, Ejima K, Kim KS, Joohyeon W, Iwanami S, Fujita Y, Jung IH, Aihara K, Shibuya K, Iwami S, Bento AI, Ajelli M. (2022). Designing isolation guidelines for COVID-19 patients with rapid antigen tests. Nature communications, 13(1)
Manica M, Litvinova M, De Bellis A, Guzzetta G, Mancuso P, Vicentini M, Venturelli F, Bisaccia E, Bento AI, Poletti P, Marziano V, Zardini A, d'Andrea V, Trentini F, Bella A, Riccardo F, Pezzotti P, Ajelli M, Giorgi Rossi P, Merler S, . (2022). Estimation of the incubation period and generation time of SARS-CoV-2 Alpha and Delta variants from contact tracing data. Epidemiology and infection, (151)
Liu QH, Zhang J, Peng C, Litvinova M, Huang S, Poletti P, Trentini F, Guzzetta G, Marziano V, Zhou T, Viboud C, Bento AI, Lv J, Vespignani A, Merler S, Yu H, Ajelli M. (2022). Model-based evaluation of alternative reactive class closure strategies against COVID-19. Nature communications, 13(1)
Ash T, Bento AM, Kaffine D, Rao A, Bento AI. (2022). Disease-economy trade-offs under alternative epidemic control strategies. Nature communications, 13(1)
Diamond MB, Keshaviah A, Bento AI, Conroy-Ben O, Driver EM, Ensor KB, Halden RU, Hopkins LP, Kuhn KG, Moe CL, Rouchka EC, Smith T, Stevenson BS, Susswein Z, Vogel JR, Wolfe MK, Stadler LB, Scarpino SV. (2022). Wastewater surveillance of pathogens can inform public health responses. Nature medicine
Kraemer MUG, Tegally H, Pigott DM, Dasgupta A, Sheldon J, Wilkinson E, Schultheiss M, Han A, Oglia M, Marks S, Kanner J, O'Brien K, Dandamudi S, Rader B, Sewalk K, Bento AI, Scarpino SV, de Oliveira T, Bogoch II, Katz R, Brownstein JS. (2022). Tracking the 2022 monkeypox outbreak with epidemiological data in real-time. The Lancet. Infectious diseases
Jeong YD, Ejima K, Kim KS, Iwanami S, Bento AI, Fujita Y, Jung IH, Aihara K, Watashi K, Miyazaki T, Wakita T, Iwami S, Ajelli M. (2021). Revisiting the guidelines for ending isolation for COVID-19 patients. eLife, (10)
Tariq A, Banda JM, Skums P, Dahal S, Castillo-Garsow C, Espinoza B, Brizuela NG, Saenz RA, Kirpich A, Luo R, Srivastava A, Gutierrez H, Chan NG, Bento AI, Jimenez-Corona ME, Chowell G. (2021). Transmission dynamics and forecasts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, March-December 2020. PloS one, 16(7)
Ejima K, Koizumi Y, Yamamoto N, Rosenberg M, Ludema C, Bento AI, Yoneoka D, Ichikawa S, Mizushima D, Iwami S. (2021). HIV testing by public health centers and municipalities and new HIV cases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)
Ejima K, Kim KS, Ludema C, Bento AI, Iwanami S, Fujita Y, Ohashi H, Koizumi Y, Watashi K, Aihara K, Nishiura H, Iwami S. (2021). Estimation of the incubation period of COVID-19 using viral load data. Epidemics, (35)
Dahal S, Banda JM, Bento AI, Mizumoto K, Chowell G. (2021). Characterizing all-cause excess mortality patterns during COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. BMC infectious diseases, 21(1)
Nguyen TD, Gupta S, Andersen MS, Bento AI, Simon KI, Wing C. (2021). Impacts of state COVID-19 reopening policy on human mobility and mixing behavior. Southern economic journal, 88(2)
Liu QH, Bento AI, Yang K, Zhang H, Yang X, Merler S, Vespignani A, Lv J, Yu H, Zhang W, Zhou T, Ajelli M. (2020). The COVID-19 outbreak in Sichuan, China: Epidemiology and impact of interventions. PLoS computational biology, 16(12)
Mavian C, Pond SK, Marini S, Magalis BR, Vandamme AM, Dellicour S, Scarpino SV, Houldcroft C, Villabona-Arenas J, Paisie TK, Trovão NS, Boucher C, Zhang Y, Scheuermann RH, Gascuel O, Lam TT, Suchard MA, Abecasis A, Wilkinson E, de Oliveira T, Bento AI, Schmidt HA, Martin D, Hadfield J, Faria N, Grubaugh ND, Neher RA, Baele G, Lemey P, Stadler T, Albert J, Crandall KA, Leitner T, Stamatakis A, Prosperi M, Salemi M. (2020). Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Greischar MA, Alexander HK, Bashey F, Bento AI, Bhattacharya A, Bushman M, Childs LM, Daversa DR, Day T, Faust CL, Gallagher ME, Gandon S, Glidden CK, Halliday FW, Hanley KA, Kamiya T, Read AF, Schwabl P, Sweeny AR, Tate AT, Thompson RN, Wale N, Wearing HJ, Yeh PJ, Mideo N. (2020). Evolutionary consequences of feedbacks between within-host competition and disease control. Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2020(1)
Bento AI, Nguyen T, Wing C, Lozano-Rojas F, Ahn YY, Simon K. (2020). Evidence from internet search data shows information-seeking responses to news of local COVID-19 cases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Bento AI, Riolo MA, Choi YH, King AA, Rohani P. (2018). Core pertussis transmission groups in England and Wales: A tale of two eras. Vaccine, 36(9)
Bento AI, King AA, Rohani P. (2017). Maternal pertussis immunisation: clinical gains and epidemiological legacy. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 22(15)
Bento AI, Rohani P. (2016). Forecasting Epidemiological Consequences of Maternal Immunization. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 63(suppl 4)
Van Kerkhove MD, Bento AI, Mills HL, Ferguson NM, Donnelly CA. (2015). A review of epidemiological parameters from Ebola outbreaks to inform early public health decision-making. Scientific data, (2)
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