Emna Achouri

This study shows that viral replication byproducts called cbVGs drive changes in circadian gene expression during infection through distinct immune pathways, with ARNTL2 playing a key role in amplifying antiviral responses.

The paper uses single-cell RNA-sequencing to study how copy-back viral genomes drive host cell responses during Sendai virus infection, revealing dynamic transcriptional changes over time.

The paper optimizes Direct RNA Sequencing to obtain full-length copyback viral genomes and introduces a BLAST-based tool for their detection.

VODKA2 detects non-standard viral genomes from RNA-seq data using an HPC-optimized pipeline.