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14 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1) @Guha_Arunkumar is defending today! I am so excited! Will he tell us about the weird fish viruses that look like influenza B? Or his work on influenza B antigenicity and mAbs? Thanks @jbloom_lab for being the outside examiner.
2) Also, Guha is interested in getting an industry job somewhere on the East Coast. If you are looking for a competent infectious disease researcher/virologist/biotechnologist better contact him quickly!
4) Congratulations Dr. Asthagiri Arunkumar!

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1) Ein paar Infos zu Sputnik V, weils grad alle interessiert. Der Impfstoff ist eine Kombination aus zwei Adenovirus Vektoren, und zwar Adenvirus Typ 5 und Adenovirus Typ 26. Adenovirus Typ 26 is selten, da gibts wenig Vektorimmunitaet die Probleme bereiten kann....
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1) The NDV-S vaccine that Peter Palese's lab (with some help from Adolfo García-Sastre's and my lab) developed was injected into first volunteers today in Vietnam (Phase I). @McLellan_Lab contributed his HexaPro construct.
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3) And it worked very well in protecting mice and hamsters from SARS-CoV-2 challenge. Here are some references for anybody interested. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… and ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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1) There are a lot of questions about how fully vaccinated individuals should behave. I don't have good solutions either, but I have some thoughts. First of all, we are seeing more and more data about how well vaccination works in a real live setting. There are recent studies...
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2)...and there are so many different types and degrees of immunosuppression. Also, a lot of affected people are getting themselves tested for antibodies after vaccination. A systematic approach to collect and analyze all that data globally would be great.....
3)...and maybe somebody (a scientific society? a research team?) can take that on and generate a database to which physicians and patients can contribute data? Just throwing that idea out there.
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