Marcos de la Peña

This study identifies self-cleaving ribozymes in RNA viruses, showing their role in translation initiation across fungi and plants.

This paper identifies and characterizes TsvlRNA1, a viroid-like RNA in Trichoderma spirale that transmits between species and modulates biocontrol capacity against plant pathogens.

The paper identifies a diverse virome in Heterobasidion populations from Czechia, including novel viruses, and shows some cause growth reduction and proteome changes in the host.

The paper develops a cloud computing infrastructure for petabase-scale sequence alignment, identifying over 105 novel RNA viruses and expanding known species by an order of magnitude.

The paper identifies small circRNAs with self-cleaving ribozymes in metazoan transcriptomes and shows their biosynthesis involves tRNA ligases.