Jarel Elgin Tolentino

Postdoc at the University of Tokyo

[Jarel Elgin Tolentino @JarelElgin]

NEW PUBLICATION ‼️ 🦠
We are delighted to share our findings on the influence of recombination on the receptor switching event of MERS-CoV and its close relatives. This paper is now out in @VirologyJ.
Please see the threads ⬇️ for some explanation (1/11)

https://t.co/WbEpFtseBQ

[The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @SystemsVirology]

Here is The Sato Lab, 2026😎!
🇨🇳🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇨🇳🇨🇳🇯🇵🇧🇩🇯🇵🇨🇳🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇮🇩🇹🇭🇯🇵🇯🇵🇧🇩🇹🇭🇮🇩🇯🇵🇵🇭🇯🇵🇯🇵🇨🇳🇨🇳

[Antigen Evolution and Design lab @AntigenEvo]

Inaugural post! We are a new lab at Institut Pasteur studying how pathogen antigens evolve and how we can exploit these proteins' evolution to make better vaccines! Read a few words from the currently sole member of the lab @SpyrosLytras below! 😁

https://t.co/niKMiDUTQI

[Bat Researcher - PRS Aaron Irving @BatResearch]

And our fluff-ball Rhinolophus bat makes the cover... #TrendsinMicro https://t.co/PWgtrCFjfd

[Bat Researcher - PRS Aaron Irving @BatResearch]

J Virol. 2026 Jun 10:e0035226. doi: 10.1128/jvi.00352-26.
Genetic diversity of pangolin coronaviruses reveals a key immuno-evasive substitution at spike residue 519. https://t.co/gLThAuKhkh #batpapers #pangolinpapers #SARSrCoV

[Viruses MDPI @VirusesMDPI]

Congrats to our Best Oral Presentation Award winner! A wonderful way to cap off an outstanding PhD journey. 🎓👏

[Jarel Elgin Tolentino @JarelElgin]

PhD completed after 3 years 🎓
I would like to express my sincere thanks to Kei @SystemsVirology, Spyros, Jumpei, Misawa-san, Kaoru, Sir Hinay, and everyone in the lab for their support throughout this journey!
I am also grateful to @VirusesMDPI for the Best Oral Presentation!

[しげる @Shigeru0701]

無事、大学院を卒業し、博士の学位を取得できました。指導教員の佐藤佳先生@SystemsVirology 、ラボの皆様、共同研究等でお世話になった先生方に心から感謝を申し上げます。ありがとうございました🦠

[Jarel Elgin Tolentino @JarelElgin]

@SystemsVirology Thanks Kei @SystemsVirology!

[Sciforum @sciforum]

A huge thank you to everyone who took part in Viruses 2026 – New Horizons in Virology!

We appreciate all the contributions that helped to make this brilliant event! 🙌🌟

#MDPI #OpenAccess #Viruses2026

[Sciforum @sciforum]

Congratulations to our Best Oral Presentation Award winners - Jarel Elgin Tolentino

Congratulations to our Best Oral Poster Award winner - Paola N. Loperena González (not pictured)

We appreciate all of your contributions to Viruses 2026! 🌟🏆

#MDPI #Viruses2026

[The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @SystemsVirology]

My talented student, Jarel Elgin Tolentino @JarelElgin , got Best Oral Presentation Award in Viruses 2026 @VirusesMDPI in Barcelona🇪🇸

Congrats Jarel, well deserved👍🏻‼️

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Next time you admire a Christmas tree, think of physics laureates Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura who invented the blue light-emitting diode (LED) and made white energy-efficient fairy lights possible.

Learn more: https://t.co/cwvgBxoOaT

#NobelPrize

[WilsonLab @WilsonLab2]

AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination | Nature Methods https://t.co/CBsyhmy3VH

[Nature Microbiology @NatureMicrobiol]

Out Now! Ecosystem health shapes viral ecology in peatland soils https://t.co/Jj5Bq2pFat #EcosystemHealth #ViralEcology #PeatlandRestoration

[Marcus Mah @marcusmahh]

A short piece about the latest ACE2-using merbecoviruses and how PREPARE in Singapore is leading the WHO Collaborative Open Research Consortium for Coronaviruses (CORC-CoV). Research oriented priorities are urgently needed for pandemic preparedness
https://t.co/IvdLkUwGrL

[The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @SystemsVirology]

BREAKING🔔 A new study from G2P-Japan🇯🇵 is out at @biorxivpreprint. We evaluated humoral immunity after "Japan🇯🇵 only" XEC-based vaccines against a variety of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Please repost🔥 1/
https://t.co/j9nnBPOuGp

[The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @SystemsVirology]

Thank you so much for the huge flattary Marco😆!!
I/we are so happy to hear you enjoyed our lab and our city🗼 We would love to welcome you back anytime. Come and visit again soon — although it might be easier for both of us to catch up in another fantastic city🇸🇬

[The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @SystemsVirology]

The "supersaiyan" has finally come🔥 @SpyrosLytras @JarelElgin #Yahooニュース
https://t.co/ZXpm29uoXP

[Spyros Lytras @SpyrosLytras]

Guess the news is officially out! Extremely excited to announce that I will be starting my own laboratory at Institut Pasteur @institutpasteur this coming spring!

Slight change to my office window view from Tokyo Tower🗼 to the Tour Eiffel. ���🇷

[The Sato Lab (Kei Sato) @SystemsVirology]

Happy to share my review in Cell Host & Microbe @cellhostmicrobe!

Wrote about systems virology, G2P-Japan, pandemic preparedness & responsive science in pandemic. It covers about G2P-Japan from its inception to its role in pandemic & my future perspective
https://t.co/j8wP5K6zOQ