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Overjoyed to finally be able to share our latest publication ⁦@Nature⁩ in which we show that boosters targeted against the Omicron variant alone can engage rare naive B cells targeting variant-specific epitopes. ⁦📖Check it out!📖⬇️ nature.com/articles/s4158…

@Jenn__Tran @twang5 @Payton_Lab @MACattackLab @TheColonnaLab @LabFehniger Congratulations!!🎉🎈🎊

As of today, I'm officially Dr. Tran! Thank you to my wonderful thesis committee members: @twang5, David Spencer, @Payton_Lab, @MACattackLab , @TheColonnaLab , and @LabFehniger

@HMAbushukair Congratulations!!

الحمدلله Done with med school!

Congratulations to Dr. Neil Anderson, Dr. Carey-Ann Burnham, Dr. Bijal Parikh and Dr. Ali Ellebedy on receiving Dean's Impact Awards from @WUSTLmed. Read the full story here: pathology.wustl.edu/dr-neil-anders… #wusmpathimm #PathTwitter

Great work from the Ellebedy Lab including postdoc @SameerMalladi and graduate student @als_wafaa!

A new paper from the Ellebedy Lab shows that to be effective, #COVID19 boosters should target variants widely different from the virus's original strain. Read more about the research in this @WUSTLmed article: medicine.wustl.edu/news/updated-c… @SameerMalladi @als_wafaa #wusmpathimm

Latest publication out of the Ellebedy Lab showing de novo B cell responses to variant vaccines in humans. Led by @als_wafaa and @SameerMalladi . Check it out! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Study looks at boosting with variant-derived COVID vaccine news-medical.net/news/20220926/… #Vaccine #Coronavirus #Disease #COVID #Omicron @biorxivpreprint @WUSTLmed

Thank you Dr. Kissick @HaydnKissick @EmoryVaccineCtr for such a wonderful presentation and imparting your wisdom with our students! We hope to host you again in the future! @TheBcellArtist @MandyMChan @BirkEvavold @JingNeticist @als_wafaa @ChangxuFan

.@NIH highlights the work of @TheBcellArtist @WUSTLmed on how the #COVID19 immune response improves for months after vaccination. ow.ly/toLu50IiyhR

@WUSTLImmuno Journal Club this week led by @als_wafaa and Dr. Hongzhen Hu @WashUanesthesia on @ImmunityCP article ‘Interleukin-6 produced by enteric neurons regulates the number and phenotype of microbe-responsive regulatory T cells in the gut’ from the Benoist Lab.

Influenza disappeared from most of the world in the past 18 months, when influenza transmission was suppressed by the anti-COVID public health measures. But now influenza B is spreading again in mainland China and detections are increasing each week (1/9)