Sara L. Sawyer

Regulation of interferon signaling by transposon exonization

The paper identifies transposon exonization as a mechanism regulating interferon signaling by generating functional variants of immune genes, including a decoy receptor that inhibits interferon signaling.

Structurally divergent and recurrently mutated regions of primate genomes

The paper identifies structurally divergent regions in primate genomes and quantifies the impact of structural variants across multiple species.

Optimizing Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) using Machine Learning

This study uses machine learning to improve PCR success rates, achieving 81% prediction accuracy and identifying 15 under-optimized features.

dsRNA-Seq: Identification of viral infection by purifying and sequencing dsRNA

The paper introduces dsRNA-Seq, a method to identify RNA viruses by sequencing double-stranded RNA, and demonstrates its effectiveness in detecting viral infections in mammals and reptiles.