David Páez-Espino

The paper presents the first genomic catalogue of viruses and mobile genetic elements associated with Nitrososphaeria, revealing novel viral families and insights into their evolution and adaptation.

This paper develops NanoCas, a compact CRISPR nuclease, and demonstrates its efficacy in editing non-liver tissues in non-human primates.

The paper compiles a global soil virus dataset to assess biodiversity and biogeochemical impacts, finding most viral diversity remains unexplored and viruses may influence carbon and nutrient cycling.

The paper expands the global RNA virome by five-fold, identifying new clades of RNA bacteriophages and revealing novel virus-host interactions.

The paper identifies 24,000 soil viral sequences and their hosts, revealing new viral diversity and roles in carbon metabolism across soil ecosystems.