Vanessa L. Bauer

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

The paper investigates how CD4 receptor variants in gorillas and chimpanzees confer resistance to SIVs, showing that selective pressure shaped these variants to block viral entry.

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