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Research focus: Immunology, Immunometabolism, Virology, Infectious Diseases, Surveillance, Public Health. #SciComm #MentorFirst 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇦🇹🏳️‍🌈
Mar 4, 2021 7 tweets 7 min read
New insights into SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion

#SARS-CoV-2 #mutations can lead to antibody #escape. What about T cells? In our study in @SciImmunology we report how mutated epitopes evade T cell responses.
immunology.sciencemag.org/content/6/57/e… 1/7 Artistic 3D-rendering of a T cell fighting with SARS-CoV-2 ( Using deep viral sequencing we identified low-frequency mutations in experimentally validated CD8 T cell epitopes of SARS-CoV-2, some of which were found as fixed mutations in global virus sequences from @GISAID. 2/7
Nov 26, 2020 8 tweets 13 min read
Our nation-wide study on the #genomic #epidemiology of #SARS-CoV-2 #superspreader_events in #Austria is out in @ScienceTM !

doi.org/10.1126/scitra…

Please find the highlights in this thread. 1/8 Through #Phylogenetic #SARSCoV2 analyses and data integration with @GISAID @nextstrain , we unveiled the links between #Austrian clusters to the global #pandemic. Explore our data and data-driven narratives at #NextstrainAustria sarscov2-austria.org ! 2/8
Jul 20, 2020 7 tweets 11 min read
Our collaborative study unravels #SARSCoV2 #SuperSpreader events in #Austria and the inter- and intra-host mutational dynamics.

Preprint at @biorxivpreprint available now: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… !

1/7 Graphic design @alex_lercher Through #Phylogenetic #SARSCoV2 analyses and data integration with @GISAID @nextstrain , we unveiled the links between #Austrian clusters to the global #pandemic.

Explore our data and data-driven narratives at #NextstrainAustria cemm.at/research/sars-… !

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