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Anthony Alicea

Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1

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A Germinal Center-Independent Innate-Like Memory B Cell Compartment of B1 Origin

Paula Maldonado Villavicencio, Maria Bottermann, Myriam Ortiz Isuiza, Shivang Parikh, John E. Warner, Anthony Alicea, Elizabeth Zhou, Thavaleak Prum, Hannah Naili, Xiao Liu, Stephanie R. Weldon, Facundo D. Batista

The paper identifies a GC-independent memory B cell subset derived from B1 cells that contributes to protective immunity against viral infection.

bioRxiv · Jul 25, 2026 · PreprintImmunology

Antibody feedback establishes an affinity brake in the germinal center

Yu Yan, Xuesong Wang, Zhenfei Xie, Daniel L. V. Bader, Ryan H. Lim, Krystal M. Ma, Christopher A. Cottrell, Jon M. Steichen, Liling Xu, Paula Maldonado Villavicencio, Madhav Akauliya, Ja‐Hyun Koo, Jacqueline Ming Shen, Alexandra Vernich, Oleksandr Kalyuzhniy, , Facundo D. Batista

The paper investigates how B cell affinity affects germinal center (GC) responses by showing high-affinity B cells have shorter GC residence times and lower-affinity B cells are maintained, suggesting an antibody feedback mechanism that modulates affinity and epitope spreading.

bioRxiv · Nov 13, 2025 · PreprintImmunology