Happy to share our Nature Immunology N&V on #Covid💉immunity by Kedzierska Lab.📢WE HAVE BLIND SPOTS: Minorities are under-represented in studies & health determinants' role on biological effects is neglected. It's important!1/9 iMM Ana Caetano nature.com/articles/s4159…

Cover of Nature Immunology ft. research on #COVID19 vaccine efficacy amongst First Nations peoples led by Kedzierska Lab & Menzies Research Beautiful cover artwork by Mardijbalina Art - Zoe Fitzpatrick, Yanyuwa and Garrawa woman, NT. nature.com/ni/volumes/24/… UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital

New Research: Polyfunctional antibodies: a path towards precision vaccines for vulnerable populations: Vaccine efficacy determined within the controlled environment of a clinical trial is usually substantially greater than real-world vaccine… #immunology frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Can future vaccines be "personalised"? 🤔 Do different populations benefit from different vaccine formulas? 👶🏼🧓👩🏽 What infectious diseases are reduced by functional antibodies? 🧪🧬 Find out all that and more in Ruth Amy Purcell 's jam-packed review on vaccines & antibodies 🎉

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…

🥳 So happy to share my first, first-coauthored paper is finally out! 🥳 What did we do! Well, we looked at 1) #antibody immunity to #SARSCoV2 variants after #vaccination and 2) natural ACE2 polymorphism on affinity to #RBD! A nice summary of key take homes linked below 🦠 1/2

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 😉

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

We love antibodies 😍 Until they cause spicy experimental artefacts 😳 Stay safe and validate your antibody detectors thoroughly 😅

🧵 1/N How often should I get a #COVID19 booster vaccine? Our new article published in Nature Communications estimates benefit of different frequencies of COVID vaccines against severe disease by risk group (age, immunocompromised status). Check it out here! nature.com/articles/s4146…

A new generation of vaccine #adjuvants tailored for the pediatric immune system could help overcome longstanding gaps in the design of #InfectiousDisease vaccines for children, according to a new Viewpoint from researchers at NIAID News. scim.ag/8hu

Affinity maturation happens outside of the GC? 🤯* * Well, kinda... PB/PCs leave the GC and expand proportional to their affinity. Massive kudos to the legendary Andrew MacLean and the rest of the Nussenzweig_LAB team. Check out the pre-print here. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nice work by Lauren Burmas, our former honours/RA and the team The Viral and Vaccine Immunology Lab looking at the impact of varying your prime-boost vaccine site.

In a recent study published in Science Advances, researchers explored whether adding IgG4 antibodies in blood samples would affect vaccine-induced immunity. 🔗go.unimelb.edu.au/5rxp UniMelb MDHS The Royal Melbourne Hospital University of Melbourne