Jenny J. Ahn

The paper identifies molecular interactions between influenza HAs and MHC-II, showing avian MHC-II enables more efficient entry than human MHC-II for most H5 HAs and reveals structural and functional similarities across different HA subtypes.

The paper compares sequence constraints across influenza HA subtypes and finds that despite similar structures, ~50% of sites show diverged amino-acid preferences.

This study uses deep mutational scanning to analyze H5 hemagglutinin mutations and their impact on pandemic risk factors in influenza viruses.

This study uses synthetic genomes to investigate how synonymous codon recoding affects organismal fitness and develops a workflow to overcome lethal effects of codon swaps.