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Daniela joins TWiV to discuss her career and her research on T cells, their role in infection with SARS-CoV-2, T cell epitopes and why a variant that evades T cell immunity is not likely to emerge.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker

Guest: Daniela Weiskopf

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Links for this episode

•Research assistant position at FDA (pdf)
•Register for ASV 2023
•Cross reactive T cells to SARS-CoV-2 (Science)
•SARS-CoV-2 exposure history and T cell response (Cell Rep Med)
•Spike T cells cross- recognize Omicron (Nature)
•Ancestral SARS-CoV-2 T cells recognize Omicron (Nature)
•NVX-CoV2373 induces T cell responses (J Clin Inves)
•Letters read on TWiV 975
•Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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