Jaime Manzano
zureishon.bsky.social
Jaime Manzano
@zureishon.bsky.social
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New work published today from the RasgonLab! The first thesis chapter from @zureishon.bsky.social!

Project highlights some of the difficulties we had with sample collection during the early days of COVID

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Virome profiling of Culex tarsalis through small RNA-seq: A challenge of suboptimal samples
Author summary Mosquitoes are capable of transmitting pathogenic viruses to humans and other vertebrate hosts during feeding. However, they can also carry viruses that infect only mosquitoes, which ar...
journals.plos.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice." ~ #unknown
June 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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New work from Jaime Manzano-Alvarez in my lab! One of our pandemic papers - trying to salvage samples collected during the peak of the pandemic when collections and shipping were performed under very non-ideal conditions

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Virome profiling of Culex tarsalis through small RNA-seq: A challenge of suboptimal samples
Viral infections in mosquitoes trigger the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway, a key antiviral defense mechanism that generates virus-derived small RNAs (vsRNAs). Given the natural enrichment of vsRNAs d...
www.biorxiv.org
May 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM