Learn about immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and how T-Cell epitopes play a role. Get an in-depth look at the number of epitopes, variability of MHC genes, and conservation of major T-cell epitopes across SC2 variants.
Prof Francois Balloux
Director @UGI_at_UCL. Interest in Infectious disease epidemiology, pathogen genomics and global health Mastodon account: @FBalloux@genomic.social
Learn about potentially beneficial non-spike mutations in SARS-CoV-2 variants. Find out the effects of mutations to all SARS-CoV-2 proteins and how they can be beneficial.
Bloom Lab
Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with @fredhutch @HHMINEWS @uwgenome. @jbloom_lab@mstdn.science
This blog provides a few facts about Marburg virus (MARV). MARV is a hemorrhagic fever virus (filovirus) related to ebola viruses. It has a broad distribution range in Sub-Saharan Africa and is likely hosted by the Egyptian fruit bat. MARV can also spill over to old world monkeys, non-human primates, and humans.
Prof Francois Balloux
Director @UGI_at_UCL. Interest in Infectious disease epidemiology, pathogen genomics and global health Mastodon account: @FBalloux@genomic.social
An update to a preprint on UK bat coronaviruses has revealed some unexpected and surprising results. Four species of coronaviruses were recovered from a small sample of 48 droppings from 16 of the 17 bat species breeding in the UK.
Prof Francois Balloux
Director @UGI_at_UCL. Interest in Infectious disease epidemiology, pathogen genomics and global health Mastodon account: @FBalloux@genomic.social
Explore the findings of a paper from Dr. Mark Davis' group that shows the effects of the mRNA vaccine on CD8 T cell responses in people who had prior COVID compared to uninfected people. Learn about the use of SARS-CoV-2 pMHC-spheromers to detect viral antigen-specific CD8 and CD4 T cells.
Prof. Akiko Iwasaki
We study innate and adaptive immunity against viruses and study disease pathogenesis. #COVID19 #longCOVID #vaccines @HHMINEWS @YaleIBIO @YaleMed @YaleCII
The past three years of fighting Covid have been a fog of war. We must reckon with how bad the pandemic was, and how much worse it could have been. Some places had much lower rates of infections, hospitalizations and deaths, and the pandemic could have been deadlier.
Dr. Tom Frieden
Global health leader and epidemiologist. President and CEO of @ResolveTSL. Former @CDCgov director and @nycHealthy commissioner. Focused on saving lives.
This blog discusses SARS-CoV-2 trackers and their speculation on ORF9b mutations in recent variants. It also provides an update on previously described work estimating fitness effects of amino-acid mutations to all SARS-CoV-2 proteins.
Bloom Lab
Lab studying molecular evolution of proteins and viruses. Affiliated with @fredhutch @HHMINEWS @uwgenome. @jbloom_lab@mstdn.science