Katherine Nabel Smith

MD-PhD @HarvardMITmdphd | PhD @VirologyHarvard @AbrahamLabHMS | @Stanford cardinal

[Valerie Stone, MD @ValStoneMD]

Our STAR ⭐️ interns deserve an enormous shout out too! It was AMAZING working with them all: @katherine_nabel @bryan_akahara @mjoneill95 and Love Osunnuga 🔥🔥

[@AbrahamLabHMS @abrahamlabhms]

Excited to share a study led by postdoc Pan Yang and grad student @VirologyHarvard Wanyu Li that solves part of a missing puzzle on how eastern equine encephalitis virus, one of the deadliest viruses endemic to North America, infects cells. 🤩 @biorxivpreprint @HarvardMicro

[@AbrahamLabHMS @abrahamlabhms]

Special shout to the @HC2EM staff and all others who contributed including co-authors @TheColinMann @katherine_nabel @SarahA_Clark. Read the paper here!
https://t.co/Q0W6qIljin

[The PhD Program in Virology at HMS @VirologyHarvard]

TODAY at 2:00 PM ET, Katherine Nabel (Abraham lab) defends her dissertation "Molecular mechanisms for broad neutralization of emerging RNA viruses".

To access Zoom: https://t.co/PJLqi8CESa

[Division of Medical Sciences at HMS @DMSHarvard]

2022 BIG graduate, Eduardo Maury, is featured on the HMS Graduation page: Exploring the Brain https://t.co/GFvJW06cbI

@BIG_Harvard_PhD

[Katherine Nabel Smith @katherine_nabel]

@dylanvneel @winstonxyan Re-exposure with the same variant may not help with exposure to a strain as divergent as Omicron is. I think we're going to need an Omicron boost

[Katherine Nabel Smith @katherine_nabel]

@dylanvneel @winstonxyan Quantity of ab response is important, but so is quality. One concern that I have is that you can make a lot of ab, but if it's not directed at the right epitopes, it's not going to help. Epitope breadth is very important. Boosting with same strain may give quantity not quality

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The #SARSCoV2 spike protein receptor binding domain, altered w/ combined mutations, is more resistant to neutralization by antibodies & by serum from vaccine recipients. Results point to continued emergence of escape variants as SARS-CoV-2 adapts to humans https://t.co/xCfqS2E5r5

[Steffanie Strathdee, PhD 🗡️ 🦠Superbug Slayer🗡️ @chngin_the_wrld]

Today's #shoutout to #womenInSTEM goes to
@katherine_nabel & @SarahA_Clark for their @ScienceMagazine paper on the structural basis for continued antibody evasion by the #SARSCoV2 receptor binding domain. #COVID19
https://t.co/24EVulJVJn

[Sanjat Kanjilal @SanjatKanjilal]

https://t.co/f1RFeQjLu8

The landscape of mutations that could lead to antibody escape in #SARSCoV2 remains under-sampled among circulating variants.

Lucky to have been a part of this incredible group of researchers.

@abrahamlabhms

[Katherine Nabel Smith @katherine_nabel]

@SanjatKanjilal @abrahamlabhms We are so lucky to have been able to work with you @SanjatKanjilal !!

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The #SARSCoV2 spike protein receptor binding domain, altered w/ combined mutations, is more resistant to neutralization by antibodies & by serum from vaccine recipients. Results point to continued emergence of escape variants as SARS-CoV-2 adapts to humans https://t.co/xCfqS2E5r5

[Katherine Nabel Smith @katherine_nabel]

@dylanvneel @abrahamlabhms Thank you so much @dylanvneel !!

[@AbrahamLabHMS @abrahamlabhms]

Thank you, Jake Miller, for the wonderful piece on our lab's latest paper. The next step, confirming hypotheses based on our work but using #OmicronVariant will keep us all busy, unfortunately.
https://t.co/3MrazlTmzl

[@AbrahamLabHMS @abrahamlabhms]

Thank you @jwgale at Bloomberg news for letting me comment on #OmicronVariant and highlighting our @ScienceMagazine paper!
https://t.co/TRaFXzCS3e

[Katherine Nabel Smith @katherine_nabel]

We worked with an incredible team to study how structural plasticity in the SARS-CoV-2 RBD allows the virus to escape human antibody responses. Thank you @mgh_id @bwh_id @MassCPR @HarvardMicro @VirologyHarvard for working with us and for your support of this project!

[@AbrahamLabHMS @abrahamlabhms]

Excited to share our manuscript just published @ScienceMagazine describing mechanisms for continued antibody evasion of the SARS-CoV-2 RBD. Hopefully, the findings help us better prepare for #Omicron.
https://t.co/DO3RZEo8Rz

[Katherine Nabel Smith @katherine_nabel]

@MDesjardins_1 @Dr_AmyKacin Great to collaborate with you on this project!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

[Katherine Nabel Smith @katherine_nabel]

@CeNewman24 @CamBiochem 🎉🎉🎉

[Katherine Nabel Smith @katherine_nabel]

@CarlaCWinter Congrats @CarlaCWinter ! 🎉