Ravi Kant

This study designs and validates protease-resistant antiviral peptides that inhibit SARS-CoV-2 fusion, showing improved efficacy in vitro and in vivo.

LazypipeX improves virus discovery in mNGS data by offering customizable and efficient annotation strategies that reduce execution time while maintaining accuracy.

The paper investigates TBEV circulation and vertical transmission in bank voles in Poland, finding co-circulating viral lineages and evidence of vertical transmission.

The paper reprocesses SARS-CoV-2 genomic data to correct systematic errors in phylogenies using a novel assembly tool, resulting in a cleaner global tree of 4.47 million samples.

The paper develops a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in mink and evaluates its immune response and efficacy against Alpha and Omicron variants, showing reduced severity and virus presence in vaccinated animals.

This study uses sewage metagenomics to distinguish seasonal, human-derived, and environmental microbial communities, offering potential for improved AMR surveillance.

This study investigates an equine dermatitis outbreak in Finland, identifies EqPPV as the causative agent, and highlights zoonotic transmission risks and risk factors.

This study shows that combining PIKfyve and TMPRSS2 inhibitors intranasally protects mice from SARS-CoV-2 lung infection and reduces cell death.

This paper introduces Lazypipe2, an improved metagenomic pipeline for virus detection, showing enhanced performance in identifying eukaryotic viruses and handling divergent sequences.

ClusTRace is a bioinformatic pipeline for analyzing clusters in SARS-CoV-2 phylogenies to detect super-spreading events and novel mutations.

HaVoC is a bioinformatic pipeline that assembles SARS-CoV-2 sequences and identifies lineages to detect variants of concern.

The paper introduces a novel NGS pipeline called LAZYPIPE for virus discovery across diverse hosts and samples, demonstrating its ability to identify both known and novel viruses.