What are the challenges facing mucosal vaccines for SARS-CoV-2? PhD student Devaki Pilapitiya, Adam Wheatley and Hyon-Xhi review our current understanding of mucosal immunity and protection from re-infection 👇 thelancet.com/journals/ebiom…

🧵1/n: Can rational induction of antibodies with non-neutralising functions contribute to improved vaccine effectiveness in vulnerable populations? 💉👴🤰 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Another piece of work from my phd and from Ebene Regina Haycroft masters thesis is finally out! Read it here 👇 key points are broken down in this 🧵 #COVID19 #phdlife #Researchpaper #Antibodies link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Please RT! Looking for a lovely #StructuralBiologist to join our lab ⁦⁦ourANU⁩ ⁦ Fascinated by infectious diseases, nanobodies and structures, please apply! 🦙 🦙 ⁦Closing date October 1st Postdoctoral Fellow (Tham) - Canberra / ACT jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdocto…

BCG vaccine’s off-target effect on herpes simplex virus. Results from the international 🇦🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧🇪🇸🇧🇷 #BRACEtrial published today show a beneficial effect of BCG on cold sore recurrence. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #BCG #vaccine #RCT #HSV #IDTwitter #WeAreID eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science

Great job, Thu and Lara!

New research shows mucosal surfaces in eyes, nose, mouth and throat are crucial to the first line of defence against upper respiratory infections, like #COVID19. Published in JCI insight ICB - the journal doherty.edu.au/news-events/ne… UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital Kevin John 🧪🧩

How do #mucosal antibodies respond after #vaccination or #covid breakthrough infection? 🤔 Do previous exposures shape future #humoral responses? Our work is finally out as twin publications in JCI insight and ICB - the journal Short🧵to follow 😉

We are recruiting! Looking for an excellent immunologist to join my Unimelb lab as a research officer/post doc on flu and COVID projects jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/914310/…

Want to know what I have been up to lately? Well, we are developing a vaccine to save the pigs from the a-pork-alypse (African swine fever virus) 🐷 Watch the video below for more info on ASF 👇

Check out this great work by Ebene Regina Haycroft and co. looking at antibody glycosylation in the humoral response to SIV-TB coinfection in 🐒👇