Yaara Finkel

This study shows that reduced viral entry in monocytes leads to HCMV latency, while efficient entry enables productive infection, highlighting entry as a key determinant of latency.

The paper identifies hundreds of RNA-regulatory effectors in human RBPs using HT-RNA-Recruit and develops a synthetic RNA regulator with a predictive mathematical model.

This study develops VECOS, a viral-encoded CRISPR screen to analyze host dependencies during cytomegalovirus infection, identifying novel factors and revealing the importance of virion assembly.