Hannah K. Frank

This paper isolates and characterizes a novel Tacaribe virus (TCRV) strain from Jamaican fruit bats, showing it causes nonfatal infection with mild liver disease and limited immune response, offering a better model for studying arenavirus biology than previously used strains.

The paper generates a bat genome and germline immunoglobulin loci to study B cell receptors, finding unique features and differences compared to humans.

The paper identifies two distinct and functional immunoglobulin heavy chain loci in big brown bats, revealing a novel mechanism for humoral immunity potentially linked to viral resistance.

This paper uses a mouse lemur transcriptomic atlas to identify new genes, splice junctions, and disease-related features, highlighting their relevance to primate biology and human disease.

Portal integrates large-scale single-cell datasets efficiently and accurately by preserving biological variation across samples, platforms, and species.