Lexi E. Frank

The paper investigates whether DNA extraction methods co-purify prions, finding that commercial kits do not eliminate prion seeding activity, posing biosafety risks.

This study evaluates nanopore adaptive sampling for detecting Borrelia burgdorferi in ticks, finding it highly specific but with moderate sensitivity and high false-negative rates.

This paper develops a method using nanopore adaptive sampling to rapidly identify mammalian species from scat samples, achieving accurate identifications for most samples and detecting a misidentification in one case.

This paper assembles and annotates the genome of the soybean gall midge, Resseliella maxima, using long-read nanopore sequencing, providing a high-quality reference for studying its biology and plant-insect interactions.