Most recent work from the lab just out nature. By combining ancient DNA work, population genomics, and in vitro infections we show that the Black Death shaped the evolution of immune genes. Kuddos to co-first authors Tauras Vilgalys and Jennifer Klunk. nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Celebrating the new boss, Ana Fernandez-Sesma ! With Simon Lab (ISMMS) Jean Lim Michael Schotsaert and many others from our department. Cheers to Ana and to a bright future for Mount Sinai Microbiology! Thanks to Daniel Caughey for organizing this!

Thanks Florian and Viviana for organizing it! I could not be happier about the opportunity to lead this AMAZING department! Feeling supported by this great group of colleagues is wonderful 🥰. Taking the torch from the great Peter Palese and carrying it forward! #SinaiMicro

Congrats Florian!

Check out our new paper led by Siri in collaboration with peter 1/2mann from Yoshi Kawaoka's lab and Hejun Liu from Ina Wilson's lab describing a broadly cross reactive mAb to all SARS-CoV-2 variants. Overview:news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/04/r… paper: jci.org/articles/view/…

Great to see you hanging out behind my apartment! Haha lets grab lunch or dinner or at least a beer: [email protected]

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What a cool paper. I wonder if there are any active mutator mechanisms involved, analogous to AID in B cells.

Many thanks to the thoughtful and comprehensive commentary from Shiv Pillai on our paper led by Siri about broadly protective mAbs against SARS-CoV-2, both out today in the JCI: Comment:jci.org/articles/view/… Paper:jci.org/articles/view/…

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A curated set of human immunoglobulin germline genes/alleles for better annotation of sequences encoding antibodies and antibody repertoires. It has potential to solve annotation problems you have not been aware of! #antibody #AIRRseq #repertoire biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Antibodies are the product of evolution on two timescales: over millions of years in vertebrate populations, and within weeks of infection or 💉 in populations of B cells. We ask how those timescales interact in our paper out in PLOS Pathogens 🧵 1/n t.ly/U84Un

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This is an amazing and intuitive approach as Stuart Tangye has done so well for decades

Great job Josh! This was a "hunch" project that turned out to be so interesting once Josh dug in. In a nutshell: How do you balance the need for maximum antibody diversity and adaptability with the requirement for maintaining the ability of an antibody to express well?

Gut of newborns has unique bacteria that produce serotonin and promote the development of immune cells that may prevent allergic reactions to food and beneficial gut microbes, according to a preclinical study from Weill Cornell Pediatrics. bit.ly/3PjJDhi

Congratulations and completely expected to Victora Lab for becoming an HHMI investigator hhmi.org/news/hhmi-inve…