Trudy Straetemans

This study examines how different transplantation platforms affect the clonal and transcriptional changes in αβ and γδT cells over time, finding that graft engineering has a lasting impact on βTCR clonality, while viral reactivation mainly drives expansion without altering repertoire structure.

The paper develops a γδT-omics pipeline to analyze compartmentalization of Vδ1⁺ T cell migration, tumor-reactivity, and clonality in human colorectal cancer, revealing distinct functional and transcriptional features across tumor compartments.

This study shows that single mutations during early oncogenesis can upregulate BTN2A1, enabling Vγ9Vδ2 TCR binding, but full activation requires subsequent phosphorylation of BTN3A1.