Rustam Ziganshin

The paper develops a computational method to analyze low-quality archaic human genomes and applies it to the Teshik-Tash 1 Neandertal, showing genetic similarity to later Western Eurasian Neandertals.

The paper validates amino acid variants in proteogenomics by using multiple reads from overlapping peptides to improve variant reliability.

The paper reports the crystal structure of gp53, a putative host cell-binding protein from bacteriophage AP22, showing it forms a trimeric fiber and binds small sugar-like molecules but does not inhibit infection.