Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant

This paper introduces an Oxford Nanopore sequencing framework for hantavirus genome assembly and variant analysis, revealing defective viral genomes as a new feature of hantavirus populations.

This study investigates the stability of hantaviruses under various environmental stresses and evaluates inactivation methods, finding that they are stable under some conditions but can be effectively inactivated by common methods.

The paper identifies differences in innate immune responses to New World and Old World arenaviruses, linking small non-standard viral RNAs to immune activation.

This study develops an amplification-free CRISPR-Cas13 assay for detecting zoonotic viruses and finds that multiple crRNAs improve sensitivity for some viruses but not others.