Shashidhar Ravishankar

The paper identifies KSHV-specific T-cell receptors in KS tumors, showing they recognize lytic KSHV gene products and could inform immunotherapies.

The paper identifies KSHV- and HIV-specific T-cells in KS tumors and shows they persist over time and coexist with immunosuppressive macrophages.

NeST is a variant calling framework that combines multiple callers to improve accuracy in identifying SNPs from NGS data, validated on Plasmodium falciparum isolates.

The paper introduces Kestrel, a k-mer-based variant caller that avoids mapping, assembly, and de Bruijn graphs, achieving high concordance with assembled contigs in Streptococcus pneumoniae.