Aaron A.R. Tobian

The paper investigates the association between penile anaerobic bacteria and immune cell densities in foreskin tissue, finding increased CD11c+ myeloid cells and HIV-susceptible T cells in individuals with high bacterial abundance.

The paper introduces HIV SMRTcap, a method for characterizing HIV-1 reservoirs by identifying integration sites and proviral integrity using long-read sequencing, and validates its performance across subtypes and tissue samples.

This study evaluates antibody responses to a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine in kidney transplant recipients, finding reduced neutralizing antibodies and altered IgG subclass switching compared to healthy controls.