Anna Jeffery-Smith

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Thrilled and honored to have received the prize for best oral communication at #HBVmeeting in Paris! 🤩 Thank you so much! #2022HBVmeeting Team achievement: @BCVirHep @liverunitclinic @maini_lab

SARS-CoV-2–specific memory B cells can persist in the elderly who have lost detectable neutralizing antibodies: buff.ly/3lisTIk @mmaini6 @maini_lab @UCL #COVID_19 #Immunology

SARS-CoV-2-specific memory B cells can persist in the elderly who have lost detectable neutralising antibodies: buff.ly/3lisTIk @maini_lab @ucl #COVID_19 #Immunology

Amplify women in science & keep it going #WomenInSTEM @mmaini6 @StephyKucyKousa @pallett_lab @nekisa_zakeri @JessicaHDavies1 @natha_schmidt @AnnaJS_viro @aliceroselyn @SaSi_Lens @Peppa_Group @RealMcCoyLab @Mauri_group @SofiaPdPG @JMarchingo @DrEmilyShaw @LucyWalkerlab @ljpally19

🚨Advance publication out today in @Nature🚨 Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative SARS-CoV-2 nature.com/articles/s4158… Our latest work as part of covid-consortium.com @UKCICstudy

❗non-peer reviewed pre-print❗ Our latest work as part of covid-consortium.com @UKCICstudy 👩‍🔬Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative #SARSCoV2 infection👨🏻‍🔬 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Very little is known about long-term immunity against #sarscov2 in older adults who are most at risk of severe/fatal #COVID19. We found that older adults can retain #sarscov2 specific memory B cells despite losing neutralizing antibodies @AnnaJS_viro 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our latest #COVID19 paper, led by PhD student @AnnaJS_viro, is out now on @biorxivpreprint showing SARS-CoV-2-specific memory B cells can last beyond serum neutralising antibodies, even in the elderly population biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

“The ongoing vaccine crisis is a scandalous inequity... The number of doses administered globally so far would have been enough to cover all HW & older people, if they had been distributed equitably. We could have been in a much better situation- @DrTedros @WHO #WHA74

A huge well done to Nekisa @nekisa_zakeri for winning the "Best Presentation" at the @UCLInfectImm PhD colloquium today - to quote Prof. Ari Fassati "...it was an outstanding presentation..." 🥂

This kind of COVID denialism is not just Internet rubbish, it's dangerous and real and led us in part to the disaster we are in right now. Do not RT, even to trash it. Block, report and move on. And as ever, hands, face, space, fresh air and please, stay at home. /end

Updated technical briefing on #voc202012/01 (new variant #sarscov2 #covid) now available gov.uk/government/pub… - amazing work from @PHE_uk colleagues over Christmas bank holiday weekend. @WHO_Europe @ecdc

1sts & Lasts can be special, as it is for this paper, my 1st (joint)last author paper with @EleanorBarnesOx 🧐For those interested in (re)boosting with ChAd and MVA vaccine vectors, low dose MVA vaccination, and in vivo T cell response to repeated antigen nature.com/articles/s4154…

Happy to share our new study showing that common cold virus can protect against influenza by triggering broadly protective antiviral defenses (interferon response). We used data from >13,000 pt samples and an experimental model of the human airway mucosa. thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

Lots from Mala in the press today about the critical work planned by the new UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC), in collaboration with @britsocimm @UKRI_News and @NIHRresearch

As humans diminish biodiversity by cutting down forests and building more infrastructure, they’re increasing the risk of disease pandemics such as COVID-19. Many ecologists have long suspected this, but a new study helps to reveal why. go.nature.com/3ahKKZ0

In care homes reporting a #covid19 outbreak, we found that ~100% of symptomatic & asymptomatic residents & staff who were #SARSCoV2 PCR-positive had neutralizing antibodies 5 weeks later irrespective of age - the eldest resident was >100 years old 👉tinyurl.com/y5zb94hg