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
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…
@plosslab
#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…
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…
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
Alexander Ploss retweeted
It's finally out! an exciting paper almost 4 years in the making: BTN3A3 evasion promotes the zoonotic potential of influenza A viruses in @Nature Here's a 🧵 about how 🐓 influenza A viruses cross the species barrier
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Latest lab manuscript. We developed a rapamycin-controlled RNA editing tool to study RNA-protein interactions in biomolecular condensates. Congrats to superstar grad student Josh Seo who led this the entire way, and soon to be Kleiner lab PhD #4! nature.com/articles/s41589-0…
Alexander Ploss retweeted
6 days until abstracts submissions close. Please submit your abstract as soon as possible. hcv-flavi2023.org. .
#hepC #hepatitisC #flavivirus #dengue #westnile #yellowfever
Accepted Academic and Trainee Abstracts will be granted early registration discounts.
Alexander Ploss retweeted
Excited to share the first study from our young lab led by Pierre Khalfi (Post-doc) and Zoé Denis (PhD student)-> a brief Twittorial-->
Unraveling human, rodent and snake Kolmioviridae replication to anticipate cross-species transmission biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Alexander Ploss retweeted
🙌 Today, April 19 is World Liver Day: a bridge between population health needs and policy makers' actions.
By raising awareness we can create a healthier world for all.
⭐ Join us in supporting #WorldLiverDay!
🔗 worldliverday.org/
Alexander Ploss retweeted
New in @ScienceMagazine: We discuss advances aiding the development of vaccines to protect against infection with hepatitis C virus. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… #SciencePerspective
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Thrilled to announce that our paper on adenovirus and biomolecular condensates was published today in @Nature. rdcu.be/c9e0d. What a fantastic achievement from everyone involved! @WeitzmanLab. I am really excited about where this will take our future research!