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Sofia Luengo-Woods
Advisor: Dr. Alex Gao
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Gao Lab Discovers Bacterial Surveillance System that Detects Most of a Virus’s Core Machinery
Jul 29, 2026A paper in Nature from Gao lab members (Hyunbin Lee, Sofia Luengo-Woods) with collaborators at Stanford and the NIH reveals that bacteria have a surprisingly comprehensive alarm system, with distinct families of intracellular receptors that together keep watch on nearly every essential part of an invading virus.