Jade Leconte

This study identifies prophage-encoded receptor-binding proteins (RBPs) mediating capsule specificity in Klebsiella pneumoniae, revealing structural diversity and functional activity beyond classical depolymerases.

The paper introduces MANIAC, a tool for estimating ANI and AF in viral genomes, revealing an ANI gap in bacterial dsDNA viruses and showing its predictive power for taxonomy.

The paper studies genomic variability in Bathycoccus prasinos across different oceanic temperatures, finding temperature-associated variant frequency changes and minimal mutational strategies for thermal adaptation.