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Nana Twumasi-Ankrah

Boston Children's HospitalORCID 0000-0003-1563-4172Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Jeffrey R. MoffittiD· 2 shared Ari SarfatisiD· 1 shared Blake F. FreyiD· 1 shared Carlene L. ZindliD· 1 shared Casey Todd WeaveriD· 1 shared Christopher Garrett Wilson· 1 shared Chuan Xing· 1 shared Hongxing Shen· 1 shared

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ImmunologybioRxivPreprintMar 31, 2026

Barrier Immune Memory is Promoted by Intestinal Epithelial Cell Presentation of Injected Bacterial Antigens

Christopher Garrett Wilson, Pragun Acharya, Laura Karsch…·Casey Todd Weaver

The paper shows that CD4 T cell memory is enhanced when antigens are presented by intestinal epithelial cells rather than bacterial proteins.

DOI 10.64898/2026.03.27.714828

mousebulk RNA-seq

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MicrobiologySciencePeer-reviewedJan 23, 2025

Highly Multiplexed Spatial Transcriptomics in Bacteria

Ari Sarfatis, Yuanyou Wang, Nana Twumasi-Ankrah, Jeffrey R. Moffitt

This paper introduces bacterial-MERFISH, a method to profile bacterial transcriptomes spatially, and applies it to study E. coli and B. thetaiotaomicron under different conditions.

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