@_AMJackson

PhD candidate @mit_hst @BalazsLab @DeboraMarksLab | former research technician @WardLab1 | gene therapy, vaccine, and viral evolution enthusiast (she/her)

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Joined April 2021
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Balazs Lab@BalazsLabFeb 25
Our latest manuscript just came out in @ImmunityCP describing over a decade of work in the lab studying HIV evolution and escape from HIV broadly neutralizing antibodies. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mgR9…
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HIV deciding whether to take the easy way, or the hard way around an antibody.

ALT HIV deciding whether to take the easy way, or the hard way around an antibody.

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Sarah Gurev@sarahgurevJan 13
We’ve updated the EVEREST benchmark to include real-world viral evolution! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Co-led by @nooryoussef03 and me, along with co-authors @navami_jain, @aarushimehrotr, @AgaRosegirl, @_AMJackson, @deboramarks, and with @CEPIvaccines @FutureHouseSF!

Evaluating Variant Effect Prediction Across Viruses

Viruses are a major threat to global health due to their rapid evolution, extensive diversity, and frequent cross-species transmission. Although advances in machine learning and the expanding...

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Sarah Gurev@sarahgurev16 Aug 2025
🚨New paper 🚨 Can protein language models help us fight viral outbreaks? Not yet. Here’s why 🧵👇 1/12
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Elizabeth Warren
@SenWarren14 Apr 2023
I stand in solidarity with MIT graduate workers @MITGradUnion as they negotiate for a fair contract. Graduate students do critical work that keeps universities like MIT running. Every worker deserves the right to negotiate for better wages, benefits and workplace conditions.
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BREAKING: White House issues new policy that will require, by 2026, all federally-funded research results to be freely available to public without delay, ending longstanding ability of journals to paywall results for up to 1 year. Coverage coming on @ScienceInsider.
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Lander Lab@LanderLab15 Jul 2022
With a heavy heart I announce the loss of the Scripps Morgagni. With over 20 years of faithfully mediocre imaging, it is now at peace after a year-long battle with HT issues. RIP
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Studying the serum of patients recovered from COVID-19, @WardLab1 have discovered that antibodies exposed to SARS-CoV-2 can also recognize spike proteins of other coronaviruses, such as the common cold scripps.edu/news-and-events/… @ScienceAdvances
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How the mRNA vaccines were made. In part, thanks to foundational structural biology discoveries made by Prof. Andrew Ward’s lab. nytimes.com/2022/01/15/healt… @WardLab1 @nytimes

Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made (Published 2022)

The stunning Covid vaccines manufactured by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna drew upon long-buried discoveries made in the hopes of ending past epidemics.

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The Ward Lab@WardLab12 Oct 2021
Another exciting collaborative preprint is out! Led by @Sandhyareddy88 we mapped the baseline antigenic landscapes to human beta-coronavirus spikes, based on pre-existing immunity to seasonal CoVs, as a basis for predicting antibody responses to SARS CoV-2 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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A new @scrippsresearch analysis provides a clearer picture of how mutations in recently emerged #SARSCoV2 variants of concern impact antibodies’ neutralization potency, with implications for developing next-generation vaccines and antibody therapies. fcld.ly/vx16m1e
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Eric Topol
@EricTopol20 May 2021
On the major variants: my colleagues @scrippsresearch just published @ScienceMagazine structural and functional assessment of the mutations (found in B.1.351 and P.1) to help guide broad neutralizing Abs and a pan-coronavirus vaccine science.sciencemag.org/conte…
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