Ashley B. Reers

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.

This study uses the AID system with CRISPR/Cas9 to acutely degrade nucleolin in TNBC cells, revealing its role in cell cycle progression and division, and showing that its abrogation enhances the efficacy of mitotic inhibitors.

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.