Sarah Highlander, Ph.D.

Petrosino, JF, Highlander, S, Luna, RA, Gibbs, RA, Versalovic, J. Metagenomic Pyrosequencing and Microbial Identification.  Clin. Chem.  2009 Mar 5; . [PubMed]

Highlander, SK, Hulten, KG, Qin, X, Jiang, H, Yerrapragada, S, Mason, EO, Shang, Y, Williams, TM, Fortunov, RM et al. Subtle genetic changes enhance virulence of methicillin resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus.  BMC Microbiol.  2007; 7():99. [PubMed]

Gioia, J, Yerrapragada, S, Qin, X, Jiang, H, Igboeli, OC, Muzny, D, Dugan-Rocha, S, Ding, Y, Hawes, A et al. Paradoxical DNA repair and peroxide resistance gene conservation in Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032.  PLoS ONE  2007; 2(9):e928. [PubMed]

Karpathy, SE, Qin, X, Gioia, J, Jiang, H, Liu, Y, Petrosino, JF, Yerrapragada, S, Fox, GE, Haake, SK et al. Genome sequence of Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies polymorphum - a genetically tractable fusobacterium.  PLoS ONE  2007; 2(7):e659. [PubMed]

Gioia, J, Qin, X, Jiang, H, Clinkenbeard, K, Lo, R, Liu, Y, Fox, GE, Yerrapragada, S, McLeod, MP et al. The genome sequence of Mannheimia haemolytica A1: insights into virulence, natural competence, and Pasteurellaceae phylogeny.  J. Bacteriol.  2006 Oct; 188(20):7257-66. [PubMed]

Petrosino, JF, Xiang, Q, Karpathy, SE, Jiang, H, Yerrapragada, S, Liu, Y, Gioia, J, Hemphill, L, Gonzalez, A et al. Chromosome rearrangement and diversification of Francisella tularensis revealed by the type B (OSU18) genome sequence.  J. Bacteriol.  2006 Oct; 188(19):6977-85. [PubMed]

Highlander, SK, Weissenberger, S, Alvarez, LE, Weinstock, GM, Berget, PB. Complete nucleotide sequence of a P2 family lysogenic bacteriophage, varphiMhaA1-PHL101, from Mannheimia haemolytica serotype A1.  Virology  2006 Jun 20; 350(1):79-89. [PubMed]

McLeod, MP, Qin, X, Karpathy, SE, Gioia, J, Highlander, SK, Fox, GE, McNeill, TZ, Jiang, H, Muzny, D et al. Complete genome sequence of Rickettsia typhi and comparison with sequences of other rickettsiae.  J. Bacteriol.  2004 Sep; 186(17):5842-55. [PubMed]