Sarah Woodyear
PhD Candidate (Microbiology)
Sarah has a Masters from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in Medical Microbiology. She then spent a year working as a research assistant at The Pirbright Institute, UK prior to moving across the Atlantic to get the Caddy Lab started!
First-Author Publications
Woodyear S, Chandler TL, Chen V, Lonergan TM, Baker N, Harcourt K, Clare S, Ahmed F, Caddy SL. Mechanisms of maternal antibody interference with rotavirus vaccination. EMBO J. 2025 Oct 14. doi: 10.1038/s44318-025-00582-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41087582.
Woodyear S, Chandler TL, Kawagishi T, Lonergan TM, Patel VA, Williams CA, Permar SR, Ding S, Caddy SL. Chimeric Viruses Enable Study of Antibody Responses to Human Rotaviruses in Mice. Viruses. 2024 Jul 16;16(7):1145. doi: 10.3390/v16071145. PMID: 39066309; PMCID: PMC11281508
Awards
Bicknese Prize Awardee, January 2025
Conferences
Woodyear, S. (2025). Novel antibody-dependent intracellular neutralization assay to assess rotavirus vaccine efficacy. Oral presentation at the 15th International dsRNA Virus Symposium, November 7, 2025, Porto, Portugal.
Woodyear, S. (2025). Novel antibody neutralization assays to assess rotavirus vaccine efficacy. Oral presentation at the American Society for Virology 44th Annual Meeting, July 16, 2025, Montréal, Canada.
Woodyear, S. (2024). Chimeric viruses enable study of antibody responses to human rotaviruses in mice. Oral presentation at the American Society for Virology 43rd Annual Meeting, June 26, 2024, Columbus, OH, USA.