1<!doctype html> 2<html lang="en"> 3<head> 4<meta charset="utf-8"> 5<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 6<title>Ridenhour Lab · Quantitative evolutionary ecology & human health</title> 7<meta name="description" content="Ben Ridenhour's lab at the University of Idaho develops mathematical and statistical methods to understand microbial communities, infectious disease, and human health."> 8<meta property="og:title" content="Ridenhour Lab · Quantitative evolutionary ecology & human health"> 9<meta property="og:description" content="Ben Ridenhour's lab at the University of Idaho develops mathematical and statistical methods to understand microbial communities, infectious disease, and human health."> 10<meta property="og:type" content="website"> 11<meta property="og:url" content="https://ridenhourlab.org/"> 12<link rel="canonical" href="https://ridenhourlab.org/"> 13<link rel="icon" href="assets/favicon.svg" type="image/svg+xml"> 14<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/style.css"> 15</head> 16<body> 17<a class="skip" href="#main">Skip to content</a> 18<header class="site-header"> 19 <div class="wrap"> 20 <a class="brand" href="./">Ridenhour <span>Lab</span></a> 21 <nav aria-label="Main"> 22 <ul> 23 <li><a href="./" aria-current="page">Home</a></li> 24 <li><a href="research.html">Research</a></li> 25 <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li> 26 <li><a href="teaching.html">Teaching</a></li> 27 </ul> 28 </nav> 29 </div> 30</header> 31<main id="main"> 32 <div class="wrap"> 33<section class="hero has-photo"> 34 <div> 35 <h1>Ben Ridenhour</h1> 36 <p class="role">Associate Professor · Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science · University of Idaho</p> 37 <p class="lede">I develop and apply quantitative methods to understand the evolutionary ecology of communities, with a focus on human health.</p> 38 <p>Biomathematics, biostatistics, and computation are at the core of my work. I have worked on predatorâprey coevolution, the spatiotemporal dynamics and prevention of influenza, and microbial community dynamics. In recent years I have focused on two areas: (1) the interactions that occur within microbiomes and their consequences for health, and (2) epidemiological modeling of infectious diseases to improve public health strategies.</p> 39 <p>Before joining the University of Idaho, I worked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Notre Dame. At Idaho, I am a member of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program, the Initiative for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST) within the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Sciences (IIDS), and the Center for Modeling Complex Interactions.</p> 40 <ul class="links"> 41 <li><a class="btn primary" href="cv/Ridenhour-CV.pdf">CV (PDF)</a></li> 42 <li><a class="btn" href="publications.html">Publications</a></li> 43 <li><a class="btn" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3RJv6XwAAAAJ">Google Scholar</a></li> 44 <li><a class="btn" href="mailto:[email protected]">Email me</a></li> 45 </ul> 46 </div> 47 <img class="photo" src="assets/headshot.jpg" alt="Ben Ridenhour" width="240" height="240"> 48</section> 49 50<div class="callout"> 51 <h2>Join the lab</h2> 52 <p>I am always interested in hearing from undergraduates, prospective graduate students, and postdocs. Preference goes to people with quantitative or computational skills, or a strong interest in developing them. Graduate students can join through the Mathematics and Statistical Science or Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate programs.</p> 53 <p><a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=Joining%20the%20Ridenhour%20Lab">Email me</a> with a short description of your interests and a CV.</p> 54</div> 55 56<h2>Research areas</h2> 57<div class="grid"> 58 <div class="card"><h3>Microbiome dynamics</h3><p>Mathematical and statistical models of interacting microbial communities and what they mean for health.</p><p class="more"><a href="research.html#microbiome">More â</a></p></div> 59 <div class="card"><h3>Infectious disease & public health</h3><p>Forecasting, risk modeling, and evaluating interventions for COVID-19, influenza, and other diseases.</p><p class="more"><a href="research.html#epidemiology">More â</a></p></div> 60 <div class="card"><h3>Plasmids & antibiotic resistance</h3><p>How mobile genetic elements persist and spread through bacterial communities.</p><p class="more"><a href="research.html#plasmids">More â</a></p></div> 61</div> 62 63<h2>Recent publications</h2> 64<ul class="pubs"> 65<li class="pub" data-type="preprint" data-year="2026"><div class="title">IQC: A novel criterion for assessing feature selection stability in high-dimensional analyses.<span class="tag">Preprint</span></div><div class="meta"><span class="authors">Moxley, T. A. and <span class="me">B. J. Ridenhour</span></span>
65. 2026. <span class="venue">bioRxiv</span>.<a class="doi" href="https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.26.754480">DOI</a><span class="altmetric-embed" data-badge-type="4" data-badge-popover="right" data-hide-no-mentions="true" data-doi="10.64898/2026.09.26.754480"></span></div></li> 66<li class="pub" data-type="preprint" data-year="2026"><div class="title">An aging risk-factor scale: Biomarkers of renal disease and anemia are primary predictors of three-year survival in common marmosets (<i>Callithrix jacchus</i>).<span class="tag">Preprint</span></div><div class="meta"><span class="authors">Arroyo, J. P., A. C. Mustoe, K. R. Reveles, K. M. Brasky, D. Perry, L. Cervantes, A. Alvarez, C. Hinojosa, J. Greig, A. J. Hickmott, <span class="me">B. J. Ridenhour</span>, K. R. Amato, M. L. Power, and C. N. Ross</span>. 2026. <span class="venue">bioRxiv</span> (preprint).<a class="doi" href="https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.06.743332">DOI</a><span class="altmetric-embed" data-badge-type="4" data-badge-popover="right" data-hide-no-mentions="true" data-doi="10.64898/2026.08.06.743332"></span></div></li> 67<li class="pub" data-type="article" data-year="2026"><div class="title">Using geographically weighted random forests to analyze county-level diabetes prevalence in the USA.</div><div class="meta"><span class="authors">Ampofo, E. T., E. Seamon, and <span class="me">B. J. Ridenhour</span></span>. 2026. <span class="venue">Medical Research Archives</span> 14(4).<a class="doi" href="https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v14i4.7305">DOI</a><span class="altmetric-embed" data-badge-type="4" data-badge-popover="right" data-hide-no-mentions="true" data-doi="10.18103/mra.v14i4.7305"></span></div></li> 68<li class="pub" data-type="article" data-year="2026"><div class="title">Predictive spatial modeling of sociodemographic risk for COVID-19 mortality.</div><div class="meta"><span class="authors">Seamon, E., <span class="me">B. J. Ridenhour</span>, C. R. Miller, and J. Johnson-Leung</span>. 2026. <span class="venue">BMC Public Health</span>.<a class="doi" href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-29313-w">DOI</a><span class="altmetric-embed" data-badge-type="4" data-badge-popover="right" data-hide-no-mentions="true" data-doi="10.1186/s12889-026-29313-w"></span></div></li> 69<li class="pub" data-type="article" data-year="2026"><div class="title">Precision of Hi-C-based metagenome-assembled genome reconstruction across binning pipelines.</div><div class="meta"><span class="authors">Lukaszewicz, M., <span class="me">B. J. Ridenhour</span>, E. M. Top, and T. Stalder</span>. 2026. <span class="venue">Computational and Structural Biotechnology Reports</span> 3:0003.<a class="doi" href="https://doi.org/10.34133/csbr.0003">DOI</a><span class="altmetric-embed" data-badge-type="4" data-badge-popover="right" data-hide-no-mentions="true" data-doi="10.34133/csbr.0003"></span></div></li> 70</ul> 71<p><a href="publications.html">All publications â</a></p> 72 </div> 73</main> 74<footer class="site-footer"> 75 <div class="wrap"> 76 <div> 77 <h2>Ben Ridenhour</h2> 78 <p>Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science</p> 79 <p>University of Idaho</p> 80 <p>875 Perimeter Dr. MS 1103<br>Moscow, ID 83844-1103</p> 81 </div> 82 <div> 83 <h2>Contact</h2> 84 <p><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p> 85 <p>Office: Brink Hall 327</p> 86 </div> 87 <div> 88 <h2>Elsewhere</h2> 89 <ul> 90 <li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3RJv6XwAAAAJ">Google Scholar</a></li> 91 <li><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8271-4629">ORCID</a></li> 92 <li><a href="https://github.com/magbenji">GitHub</a></li> 93 <li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin_Ridenhour">ResearchGate</a></li> 94 <li><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/benjamin.ridenhour.1/bibliography/48151516/public/?sort=date&direction=descending">NCBI bibliography</a></li> 95 </ul> 96 </div> 97 </div> 98</footer>
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