Doctoral Student Education Education: B.S. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology - University of Georgia, 2023 Research Research Areas: Molecular Genetics Evolutionary Genetics Genomics and Bioinformatics Labs (please indicate whose lab you are a member of): Blake Billmyre Selected Publications Selected Publications: Sawyer BR, Shen W, Downs DM. Perturbation of the MetJ regulon impacts the consequences of 2-aminoacrylate stress in Salmonella enterica. Microbiology (Reading). 2025 Jun;171(6):001572. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.001572. Fulton RL, Sawyer BR, Downs DM. RidA proteins contribute to fitness of S. enterica and E.coli by reducing 2AA stress and moderating flux to isoleucine biosynthesis. Microb Cell. 2024 Oct 4;11:339-352. doi: 10.15698/mic2024.10.837.
