Outstanding work by talented doctoral student Pradeepa Pushparaj with great support from Andrea Nicoletto and several others in the group + dedicated collaborators. IgDiscover helps us understand why we respond differently to infections.

Here's an interesting opportunity!

Looks absolutely amazing! Wish I was there!

Our new paper by Corcoran et al., just out in Immunity, reveals a high variation in human T cell receptor germline genes. The alleles vary greatly in frequency between population groups and some are, surprisingly, inherited from our archaic relatives. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10…

Re. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10…, many thanks to the volunteers who provided blood samples to enable the development of a comprehensive TCR variant database that will aid future TCR studies performed in many centers across the world, hosted at: gkhlab.gitlab.io/tcr/

Our paper now out in Immunity authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S10… doubles the number of known expressed TCR alleles, providing new possibilities in T cell immunology research. Thank you Vetenskapsrådet, European Research Council (ERC) and Karolinska Institutet for supporting our team.

Great collaborators and critical contributors on this study were Mattias Jakobsson, Max Larena and Carolina Bernardsson in Uppsala and Kewei Ye, Taras Kreslavsky, Anna Färnert and @ChrisSundling at KI.

Interesting and useful resource from Nic Wu and collaborators.

Excellent workshop talk by Sanjana Narang at WIRM in beautiful Davos! And such a treat to reunite with previous members of the lab, very happy days!

Catching end of summer at the Smögen meeting. Great Saturday morning talk by Hugo Zeberg discussing the role of pathogen pressure on evolution of the human immune system.

As expected, more lab results on BA.2.86 are coming out. In this detailed thread, Ben Murrell show that BA.2.86 has good neutralisation with XBB.1.5 (i.e. updated vaccines and previous infection), these results were in line with results yesterday, details below.

An outstanding choice - Jan Albert appointed to review and strengthen pandemic preparedness in Sweden. nyheter.ki.se/professor-jan-…

How can one not be interested in NHP genetics?

The diploma calliography is beautiful. Nobel week is about to start!

2023 Nobel prizes about the be awarded!

A curated database of human IG germline alleles, not to be missed!

🌟 Introducing the launch of the Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering (BIIE)! To support young people's wellbeing, we're investing significantly in scientific innovations to ensure children and adolescents worldwide benefit from cutting-edge medical solutions. (1/5)

Honored to be a Trustee for the new Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering (BIIE), which is poised to make significant contributions to human health building on our ever-increasing understanding of the human immune system.

Congrats, Melissa! Great news:-) Your University is lucky to have you!