Infectious disease biologist, innovator, entrepreneur
United States
Joined March 2018
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Alexander Ploss retweeted
Great #TWiV episode with @profvrr and @RichCondit interviewing our very own @maini_lab and John Tavis at the International #HBV meeting in Chicago! @PlossLab @ICE_HBV @HepBFoundation @GlobalHep
Thank you very much @MoAlQuraishi for an outstanding keynote lecture and great discussions at the International #HBV meeting in #Chicago. @HepBFoundation @iannaconelab
Please check out our newest study led by our very own @KeithBerggren biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Many thanks to our brilliant collaborators at @RobSchwartzLab @Crittermechanic @KleinerLabRNA @PrincetonMolBio @NCStateVetMed @Princeton #liver #HBV #epitranscriptome #RNA
Just a quick reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the international #HBV meeting hbvmeeting.org/ is June 28 (3pm EDT)! Please register and submit your abstracts! @iannaconelab @HepBFoundation and I are looking forward to welcoming you in #Chicago Please RT
Alexander Ploss retweeted
Loke and colleagues quantify the relative and interactive contributions of genetic and environmental influences on heterogeneity in immune profiles and helminth susceptibility. Read it here: rdcu.be/dKPrZ
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Alexander Ploss retweeted
Deadline E X T E N D E D! Applications📄 are now⏳ being accepted for the 2024 MolBio Scholars program. For more info and to apply, visit: molbio.princeton.edu/graduat…
ALT MolBio Scholars program announcement. An accessible version of this announcement is available at: https://molbio.princeton.edu/graduate/molbio-scholars
Alexander Ploss retweeted
🆕Hepatology Snapshot❕
Formation and transcriptional regulation of hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA
Full text here👉journal-of-hepatology.eu/art…
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#LiverTwitter
Alexander Ploss retweeted
Babies born to a mother with #hepatitisB have a greater than 90% 📈 chance of developing hepatitis B if they're not properly treated at birth. 👩🏽🍼
🔊If your doctor is aware that you have #hep B, they can prevent transmission to your baby.
Learn more 💻 hepb.org/treatment-and-manag…
Alexander Ploss retweeted
Adults in the U.S. have very low rates of vaccination, primarily because many were born before the vaccine became a health care standard & mandated for school.
💉The #hepB vaccine is widely used with 1 billion + doses given & is one of the safest & effective vaccines in the 🌍
Alexander Ploss retweeted
Applications📄 are now⏳ being accepted for the 2024 MolBio Scholars program. For more info and to apply, visit: molbio.princeton.edu/graduat…
ALT MolBio Scholars program announcement. An accessible version of this announcement is available at: https://molbio.princeton.edu/graduate/molbio-scholars
Alexander Ploss retweeted
CRISPR is an amazing gene🧬-editing tool! And the @bsadamson Adamson lab is making it even better!! Read the explainer/press release about their major improvement to prime editing, published in Nature: molbio.princeton.edu/news/20…
ALT Although the specificity of CRISPR-based gene-editing is highly accurate and versatile, the efficiency of installing those edits has been low. In this paper, the Adamson lab describes a more efficient prime editor. Illustration by Caitlin Sedwick
Alexander Ploss retweeted
It has been an immense privilege and honor to review with John MacMicking and Carl Nathan in @ScienceMagazine the past 40 years of IFN-gamma research, and reflect on its neglected and potential role as a medicine
science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126…
Please check out our newest study deciphering diff. in signaling strength betw type I&III #interferon receptors science.org/doi/10.1126/scis… Outstanding work by @EmilyMesev + fantastic collaboration with the terrific @toettch ! Thanks to everyone involved! @PrincetonMolBio @Princeton
Thank you very much @RMedzhitov for an excellent, thought provoking seminar and insightful discussions during your visit @Princeton EEB and @PrincetonMolBio #immunology @CJEMetcalf @Grahammunology
Fantastic collaboration with @cambearon on the development of qCARMEN! Outstanding work by lead author @realbriankang aided by Jiayu Zhang, Michael Schwoerer, Amy Nelson and many others. @PrincetonMolBio @Princeton @PrincetonCHW
Really excited to share the first preprint from a project that started in my lab! We hope that others find this approach for scalable, multiplexed, CRISPR-based quantification of gene expression useful. See the thread from first author @realbriankang summarizing qCARMEN:
World #HepatitisDay23 ! Get vaccinated, get tested, get treated. #eliminate #hepatitis #liver @NO_hep @PrincetonMolBio @EASLEUAffairs @AASLDtweets @HepBFoundation @Princeton
Alexander Ploss retweeted
Our new work in @Nature to explain how retrotransposons synthesize the 2nd-strand DNA by a circularization process.
Story: made some cool findings (we thought) -> actually scooped 40-yr ago by textbook knowledge -> textbook appear to be incorrect. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
Our newest study is now online!
#Hepatitis delta virus #HDV RNA decline post-inoculation in human NTCP transgenic mice is biphasic | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128… Congratulations to @stephmaya8 Leeor & Fabian and everyone else involved! @PrincetonMolBio @LoyolaChicago @NO_hep
Alexander Ploss retweeted
RNA is informant and agent. Controlled RNA export from cells could enable cell-cell delivery of functional and non-destructive tracking of cell dynamics. Our new paper, led by brilliant @FelixHorns, engineers RNA export for both capabilities: authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
Alexander Ploss retweeted
Excited to share our labs first @Nature paper! In collaboration with @VintherLab we show that hepatitis C virus #RNA is capped with FAD protecting it from innate immune sensing. rdcu.be/df8p5 Congrats Anna Sherwood and Lizandro Rivera-Rangel 👏🏻🍾 #HCV @UCPH_health
Nature research paper: Hepatitis C virus RNA is 5′-capped with flavin adenine dinucleotide go.nature.com/44nyQYy
