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Stanley Sawyer
Title:Professor of Mathematics
Professor of Biostatistics
Professor of Genetics
Degree:PHD, California Institute of Technology
MA, Brown University
BS, California Institute of Technology
Dept:Mathematics
Office:Cupples Hall I 107
Mailbox: Full Mailing Address
Phone:(314) 935-6703
E-mail:sawyer@wustl.edu

Courses
Experimental Design; Statistical Computation; Survival Analysis; Nonparametric Statistics; Linear Statistical Models

Research Interests
Probability and statistics; population biology, Mathematical genetics.

Selected Publications:

Fauquet, C. M., S. Sawyer, A. M. Idris, and J. K. Brown (2005) Sequence analysis and classification of apparent recombinant begomoviruses infecting tomato in the Nile and Mediterranean Basins. Phytopathology 95, 549-555.

Sawyer, S A, R J Kulathinal, C D Bustamante, and D L Hartl (2003) Bayesian analysis suggests that most amino acid replacements in Drosophila are driven by positive selection. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57, S154-S164. 

Bustamante, C D, R Nielsen, S A Sawyer, K M Olsen, M D Purugganan, and D L Hartl (2002) The cost of inbreeding in Arabidopsis. Nature 416, pp531-534.

Rich, S M, S A Sawyer, and A G Barbour (2001) Antigen polymorphism in Borrelia hermsii, a clonal pathogenic bacterium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98, pp15038-15043.

Bustamante, C D, J Wakeley, S A Sawyer, and D L Hartl (2001) Directional selection and the site-frequency spectrum. Genetics 159, pp1779-1788.