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Alexa Petrucciani

Medicine · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2015Rising activity

Publications

25

Citations

45

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

12

Publishing since 2015

Research summary
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Alexa Petrucciani builds computer simulations, called agent-based models, to study how immune cells and signaling molecules (cytokines) interact during muscle injury repair and during tuberculosis infection. This work uses computational modeling to predict outcomes like bacterial growth or muscle regeneration under different biological conditions, often tested against laboratory data. The research combines infectious disease biology and tissue repair biology using shared simulation methods.

Agent-based computational modelingTuberculosis host-pathogen interactionsMuscle injury and regenerationCytokine and immune cell signalingIn vitro/in silico infection modeling

Publication output was minimal or absent before 2022, then rose sharply with a peak in 2023-2024, followed by fewer outputs in 2025-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.8/year recently
17181920212022: 1 publication222023: 8 publications232024: 12 publications12242025: 2 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×6
  • eLife×4
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×4
  • PLoS ONE×2
  • PLoS Computational Biology×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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