Cassia Wagner

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I am a 2nd-year student in the University of Washington’s Medical Scientist Training Program rotating in the Bedford lab this summer. I’m working on geographic, phylogenetic analysis of flu transmission in Seattle. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from Montana State University where I discovered characterized a novel viral family from a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park with Mark Young. I then worked with a small NGO in Kamuli, Uganda launching a pediatric medical clinic.

Papers

Positive selection underlies repeated knockout of ORF8 in SARS-CoV-2 evolution

Acute SARS-CoV-2 infections harbor limited within-host diversity and transmit via tight transmission bottlenecks

Specific allelic discrimination of N501Y and other SARS-CoV-2 mutations by ddPCR detects B.1.1.7 lineage in Washington State

Viral genomes reveal patterns of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Washington State

Projects

ncov-wa-phylodynamics - Viral genomes reveal patterns of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Washington State

ncov-wa-d614g -