Mónica Pérez

This study compares innate immune responses in newborn and weaned piglets infected with two PEDV strains, finding that weaned piglets have stronger antiviral and pro-inflammatory responses despite similar viral replication.

This paper develops porcine nasal organoids to study host-microbe interactions in respiratory infections and shows that Rothia nasimurium inhibits inflammation from other bacteria.

This paper introduces a knock-in mouse model for SARS-CoV-2 infection that replicates respiratory issues but avoids neurological disease seen in the K18-hACE2 model.

This paper identifies mutations that improve the production and efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins, protecting animal models from the Beta variant.