Dr. Katz received her B.A. in Biology from Occidental College in 2017 where she first became interested in disease and data science. She received her M.A. in Applied Statistics in 2021, and her PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology in 2022, both from the University of California Santa Barbara. As a SCINet postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Katz combines her training in disease ecology with her passion for data science and machine learning to support the Salmonella Grand Challenge. She is especially excited by transdisciplinary research, model selection and validation, and getting the colors just right for her ggplots.

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Selected Publications

• Bosilevac, J.M., Katz, T.S., Arthur, T.M., Kalchayanand, N., Wheeler, T.L. (2024). Proportions and Serogroups of Enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Feces of Fed and Cull Beef and Cull Dairy Cattle At Harvest. Journal of Food Protection 100273. doi: 10.1016/j.jfp.2024.100273
• Katz, T.S., Harhay, D., Schmidt, J.W., Wheeler, T.L. (2024) Identifying a List of Salmonella Serotypes of Concern to Target for Reducing Risk of Salmonellosis.  Frontiers in Microbiology 15:1307563. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1307563
• Bosilevac J.M., Guragain M., Barkhouse D.A., Velez S.E., Katz T.S., Lu G. and Wang R. (2024). Impact of intense sanitization procedures on bacterial communities recovered from floor drains in pork processing plants. Frontiers in Microbiology 15:1379203. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1379203