Jessica Sawyer, Assistant Research Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Dr. Sawyer studies organ boundary communication and non-stem-cell mechanisms of repair in the Fox Lab.
Dr. Sawyer is also dedicated to teaching and mentorship.
- Director of of the Amgen Scholars Program at Duke: AMGEN
Education:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2010
Office Location: 308 Research Drive, DUMC 3813, LSRC B234, Durham, NC 27710
Office Phone: (919) 660-7355
Email Address: jessica.sawyer@duke.edu
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- Sawyer, JK; Montague, RA; Klemm, JW; Goddard, O; Chakraborty, A; Belato, PB; Fox, DT, Loofah suppresses cell death in long-lived Drosophila hindgut enterocytes., Development, vol. 152 no. 24 (December, 2025) [doi] [abs].
- Li, X; Huebner, RJ; Williams, MLK; Sawyer, J; Peifer, M; Wallingford, JB; Thirumalai, D, Emergence of cellular nematic order is a conserved feature of gastrulation in animal embryos., Nat Commun, vol. 16 no. 1 (July, 2025), pp. 5946 [doi] [abs].
- Stewart, RK; Nguyen, P; Laederach, A; Volkan, PC; Sawyer, JK; Fox, DT, Orb2 enables rare-codon-enriched mRNA expression during Drosophila neuron differentiation., Nat Commun, vol. 15 no. 1 (June, 2024), pp. 5270 [doi] [abs].
- Allen, SR; Stewart, RK; Rogers, M; Ruiz, IJ; Cohen, E; Laederach, A; Counter, CM; Sawyer, JK; Fox, DT, Distinct responses to rare codons in select Drosophila tissues., Elife, vol. 11 (May, 2022) [doi] [abs].
- Cohen, E; Peterson, NG; Sawyer, JK; Fox, DT, Accelerated cell cycles enable organ regeneration under developmental time constraints in the Drosophila hindgut., Dev Cell, vol. 56 no. 14 (July, 2021), pp. 2059-2072.e3 [doi] [abs].