George Taiaroa

This study isolates and characterizes contemporary seasonal human coronaviruses, showing differences in cell tropism and growth compared to lab-adapted strains.

This paper compares strict and soft core SNP filtering strategies for bacterial phylogenetics, showing soft cores retain more informative sites and improve phylogenetic accuracy.

This paper describes the discovery of a marine sponge-associated mycobacterium closely related to M. tuberculosis, which shares virulence factors but lacks virulence in mice.

PathoGD designs primers and gRNAs for CRISPR-Cas12a-based pathogen detection with high specificity, validated for Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Streptococcus pyogenes.

The paper evaluates targeted sampling strategies for detecting novel antibiotic resistance variants in Neisseria gonorrhoeae, finding that pathogen-based approaches are more efficient than patient-based ones.