Susanne Pfeifer

Representative Publications (Lab Research):

• C.J. Versoza and S.P. Pfeifer. 2024. A hybrid genome assembly of the endangered aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis). G3 (Bethesda): jkae185. Epub ahead of print.
• S.P. Pfeifer, A. Baxter, L.E. Savidge, F.J. Sedlazeck, K.L. Bales. 2024. De novo reference assembly for the coppery titi monkey (Plecturocebus cupreus) – an emerging non-human primate model for behavioral research. Genome Biol. Evol. 16(5): evae108. pdf 
• C.J. Versoza*, S. Weiss*, R. Johal, B. La Rosa, J.D. Jensen, S.P. Pfeifer. 2024. Novel insights into the landscape of crossover and non-crossover events in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Genome Biol. Evol., 16(1): evad223. pdf 
• S. Ghafoor*, C.J. Versoza*, J. Santos*, J.D. Jensen, S.P. Pfeifer. 2023. The impact of sample size and population history on observed mutational spectra. Genome Biol. Evol., 15(3): evad019. pdf
• S.P. Pfeifer. 2021. Studying mutation rate evolution in primates – the effects of computational pipeline and parameter choices. GigaScience, 10(10): giab069. pdf 
• S.P. Pfeifer. 2020. Spontaneous mutation rates. In The Molecular Evolutionary Clock. Theory and Practice. Springer Nature.
• S.P. Pfeifer. 2020. A fine-scale genetic map for vervet monkeys. Mol. Biol. Evol., 37(7): 1855-1865. pdf
• S.P. Pfeifer. 2017. The demographic and adaptive history of the African green monkey. Mol. Biol. Evol., 34(5): 1055-1065. pdf

• S.P. Pfeifer. 2017. Direct estimate of the spontaneous germ line mutation rate in African green monkeys. Evolution, 71(12): 2858-2870. pdf

Representative Publications (Teaching):

• D.I. Hanauer, R. Alvey, P. An, C. Bancroft, K. Butela, S. Coleman, K.L. Clase, P. Collins, S. Conant, P. Connerly, B. Connors, M.K. Dennis, E.L. Doyle, D. Edwards, C. Fillman, A. Findley, V.J. Frost, M. Gainey, U. Golebiewska, N. Guild, S.B. Gusky, A. Johnson, K. Johnson, K.K. Klyczek, J. Lee-Soety, H. Lindberg, M.D. Mastropaolo, J.A. Merkle, J. Mitchell, S. Molloy, F. Nieto, J. Nissen, T. Perez Morales, N.T. Peters, S.P. Pfeifer, R. Pollenz, M.L. Preuss, G. Rosas-Acosta, M.S. Saha, A. Sprenkle, C.N. Sunnen, D. Tobiason, S.S. Tolsma, V. Ware, Y.P. Ahumada-Santos, R.V. Alvarez, J. Anderson, M. Ayuk, M.E. Báez-Flores, D. Bailey, F. Baliraine, E. Behr, A.R. Beyer, S. Bhalla, L.M. Bono, D.P. Breakwell, C. Byrum, I. Duffy, A. Gleichsner, M. Harrison, R. Ho, L.E. Hughes, J.D. Kagey, K. Kohl, S. McClory, A. Moyer, M.A. Mussi, H. Nance, I.Y. Nsa, S.T. Page, J.R. Parra Unda, J. Rocheleau, S. Swerdlow, K. Thoemke, M.S. Valentine, Q.C. Vega, C. Ward, D.C. Williams, E. Wisner, W.H. Biederman, S.G. Cresawn, M.J. Graham, G. Hatfull, D. Heller, D. Jacobs-Sera, P. Ramakrishna, D. Russell, V. Sivanathan. 2024. The professional identity of STEM faculty as instructors of course-based research experiences. Accepted, Front. Educ. Sec. STEM Education
• M. Milhaven, H.A. Bakry, A. Batra, A.M. Bermingham, G. Grama, J. Kebe, S.S. Martinez, R.V. Mudunuri, M.R. Nelson, E.T. Nguyen, M.M. Peterson, A. Pruitt, K. Tran, A. Brar, G. Cerna, E. Chaffee, S.M. Caruso, S.P. Pfeifer. 2024. Complete genome sequence of the Streptomyces bacteriophage Amabiko. Microbiol. Resour. Announc. e00182-24. pdf 
• A.A. Howell*, C.J. Versoza*, S.P. Pfeifer. 2023. Computational host range prediction – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Virus Evol., 10(1): 1–11. pdf 
• M. Milhaven, C.J. Versoza, A. Garg, L. Cai, S. Cherian, K. Johnson, K. Salas Perez, M. Blanco, J. Lobatos, C. Mitra, M. Strasser, S.P. Pfeifer. 2023. Bacteriophages of cluster EA: phylogenomic relationships and host range predictions. Microorganisms. 11(1): 170. pdf
• M. Milhaven, L. Cai, S. Cherian, K. Johnson, K. Salas Perez, M. Blanco, A. Garg, J. Lobatos, C. Mitra, M. Strasser, R. Harms, S.P. Pfeifer. 2023. Complete genome sequence of the Microbacterium bacteriophage Chako. Microbiol. Resour. Announc., 12(2): e0125122. pdf