Kathryn E. Kistler

This study shows that influenza viruses use different evolutionary strategies in avian versus mammalian hosts, with reassortment dominating in birds and adaptation in mammals.

Standardized Snakemake pipelines on GitHub Actions fetch open sequence data, curate it, and publish daily or weekly updated phylogenies for 21 viruses and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

This study identifies recurrent saltational events in SARS-CoV-2 evolution, linking them to persistent human infections rather than zoonotic sources.

This study recovers an 18th-century rhinovirus genome from ancient RNA isolated from human lung specimens, revealing insights into viral evolution.

The paper examines adaptive mutations in seasonal influenza viruses grown in chicken eggs, finding most mutations cluster around the HA receptor-binding pocket and show varying background dependence across subtypes.