Anna Jeffery-Smith

Infectious Diseases & Virology Doctor; Clinical Research Fellow @QMUL & @maini_lab @UCL working on viral immunology

[Choose Love @chooselove]

The UK Government need a reminder:

Seeking asylum is not a crime.
Seeking asylum is not a crime.
Seeking asylum is not a crime.
Seeking asylum is not a crime.
Seeking asylum is not a crime.
Seeking asylum is not a crime.
Seeking asylum is not a crime.

[Sabela Lens García @SaSi_Lens]

Thrilled and honored to have received the prize for best oral communication at #HBVmeeting in Paris! 🤩 Thank you so much! #2022HBVmeeting Team achievement: @BCVirHep @liverunitclinic @maini_lab

[Journal of Clinical Investigation @jclinicalinvest]

SARS-CoV-2–specific memory B cells can persist in the elderly who have lost detectable neutralizing antibodies: https://t.co/zx389sy2QQ
@mmaini6 @maini_lab @UCL
#COVID_19 #Immunology

[Journal of Clinical Investigation @jclinicalinvest]

SARS-CoV-2-specific memory B cells can persist in the elderly who have lost detectable neutralising antibodies: https://t.co/zx389sy2QQ
@maini_lab @ucl
#COVID_19 #Immunology

[Maini Lab UCL @maini_lab]

Amplify women in science & keep it going #WomenInSTEM @mmaini6 @StephyKucyKousa @pallett_lab @nekisa_zakeri @JessicaHDavies1 @natha_schmidt @AnnaJS_viro @aliceroselyn @SaSi_Lens @Peppa_Group @RealMcCoyLab @Mauri_group @SofiaPdPG @JMarchingo @DrEmilyShaw @LucyWalkerlab @ljpally19

[Maini Lab UCL @maini_lab]

🚨Advance publication out today in @Nature🚨
Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative SARS-CoV-2
https://t.co/3jHUCI2vKX

Our latest work as part of https://t.co/4AhokGuCE1
@UKCICstudy

[Maini Lab UCL @maini_lab]

❗non-peer reviewed pre-print❗

Our latest work as part of https://t.co/4AhokGuCE1 @UKCICstudy

👩‍🔬Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative #SARSCoV2 infection👨🏻‍🔬

https://t.co/IZYpE8DrVS

[Shamez Ladhani @ShamezLadhani]

Very little is known about long-term immunity against #sarscov2 in older adults who are most at risk of severe/fatal #COVID19. We found that older adults can retain #sarscov2 specific memory B cells despite losing neutralizing antibodies @AnnaJS_viro 👉 https://t.co/Iz7aVgZD3m

[Maini Lab UCL @maini_lab]

Our latest #COVID19 paper, led by PhD student @AnnaJS_viro, is out now on @biorxivpreprint showing SARS-CoV-2-specific memory B cells can last beyond serum neutralising antibodies, even in the elderly population

https://t.co/t5M2qrpQjP

[Maria Van Kerkhove @mvankerkhove]

“The ongoing vaccine crisis is a scandalous inequity...

The number of doses administered globally so far would have been enough to cover all HW & older people, if they had been distributed equitably. We could have been in a much better situation- @DrTedros @WHO #WHA74

[Maini Lab UCL @maini_lab]

A huge well done to Nekisa @nekisa_zakeri for winning the "Best Presentation" at the @UCLInfectImm PhD colloquium today - to quote Prof. Ari Fassati "...it was an outstanding presentation..." 🥂

[Dr Dom Pimenta MD @DrDomPimenta]

This kind of COVID denialism is not just Internet rubbish, it's dangerous and real and led us in part to the disaster we are in right now.

Do not RT, even to trash it. Block, report and move on.

And as ever, hands, face, space, fresh air and please, stay at home. /end

[Susan Hopkins @SMHopkins]

Updated technical briefing on #voc202012/01 (new variant #sarscov2 #covid) now available https://t.co/YVrYNTVsmk - amazing work from @PHE_uk colleagues over Christmas bank holiday weekend. @WHO_Europe @ecdc

[T cell vaccine Lab UCL 🧬👩🏽‍💻 @Leo1401j]

1sts & Lasts can be special, as it is for this paper, my 1st (joint)last author paper with @EleanorBarnesOx 🧐For those interested in (re)boosting with ChAd and MVA vaccine vectors, low dose MVA vaccination, and in vivo T cell response to repeated antigen https://t.co/9DTkM0OYiV

[Ellen Foxman @EllenFoxman]

Happy to share our new study showing that common cold virus can protect against influenza by triggering broadly protective antiviral defenses (interferon response). We used data from >13,000 pt samples and an experimental model of the human airway mucosa. https://t.co/pPmJLMx0wg

[Maini Lab UCL @maini_lab]

Lots from Mala in the press today about the critical work planned by the new UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC), in collaboration with @britsocimm @UKRI_News and @NIHRresearch

[Nature Portfolio @NaturePortfolio]

As humans diminish biodiversity by cutting down forests and building more infrastructure, they’re increasing the risk of disease pandemics such as COVID-19. Many ecologists have long suspected this, but a new study helps to reveal why. https://t.co/CvS6C1roE8

[Shamez Ladhani @ShamezLadhani]

In care homes reporting a #covid19 outbreak, we found that ~100% of symptomatic & asymptomatic residents & staff who were #SARSCoV2 PCR-positive had neutralizing antibodies 5 weeks later irrespective of age - the eldest resident was >100 years old 👉https://t.co/PH4vxwCiLE