Virginia Pierce

This study evaluates the effectiveness of LP.8.1-targeted mRNA vaccines in boosting neutralizing antibodies and reducing immune imprinting from ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strains.

This study compares antibody evasion and receptor binding of SARS-CoV-2 subvariants, finding that LP.8.1.1 has high ACE2 affinity, while NB.1.8.1 and XFG show greater antibody evasion.

The paper develops a method to trace horizontal gene transfer and persistence of carbapenem resistance genes across bacterial species using genomic data from clinical isolates.

The paper introduces DNA spike-ins to detect contamination in SARS-CoV-2 amplicon-based sequencing and demonstrates their utility in a real-world outbreak investigation.