Roser Montagud‐Martínez

This paper develops an amplification-free CRISPR-Cas13a platform for direct viroid detection in plant RNA extracts, demonstrating its effectiveness for multiple viroid families.

The paper identifies structural factors affecting CRISPR-Cas9 trans-cleavage activity, including R-loop conformation, spacer length, and HNH domain activity.

This paper engineers a bacterial gene regulation system using the mammalian RNA-binding protein Musashi-1 to repress translation through an allosteric mechanism.