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Tejas Menon
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PhD candidate in immunology at the Doherty institute
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High expression of IL-18 receptor alpha correlates with severe respiratory viral disease and defines T cells with reduced cytotoxic signatures
www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natcomms.nature.com @katherinekedz.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Who is vulnerable to a breakthrough infection after Covid mRNA vaccination? Especially those with rapid decline of antibodies or low spike-specific IgA titers early after a booster
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Longitudinal antibody titers measured after COVID-19 mRNA vaccination can identify individuals at risk for subsequent infection
Individuals at high risk for subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infections can be identified by analyzing antibody titers over time.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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🌌 BREAKING: Mars may have left us a message. #NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered potential #biosignatures — clues that life may not be unique to Earth.
🔭🧪

“This is the closest we’ve come to recognizing that life on Earth is not unique.”

🔗 MORE: tinyurl.com/OurIslandUni...
#Mars #Astrobiology
September 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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David Baltimore passed away yesterday, “a Nobel Prize-winning biologist whose work…profoundly shaped modern molecular biology &immunology. His discoveries…altered our understanding of viruses &immune responses, laying the foundation for advancements in gene therapy, cancer research, &vaccine devt”🧪🛟
September 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Why do some people get seriously ill while others don't? Our new study in @pnas.org investigated how a population of memory T cells influence #COVID severity

Read the paper: go.unimelb.edu.au/4zkp
Or our article here: go.unimelb.edu.au/2zkp

@katherinekedz.bsky.social @thedohertyinst.bsky.social
HLA-B*15:01-positive severe COVID-19 patients lack CD8+ T cell pools with highly expanded public clonotypes | PNAS
Understanding host factors driving asymptomatic versus severe disease outcomes is of key importance if we are to control emerging and re-emerging v...
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September 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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HLA-B*15:01 has been linked to protection from severe COVID, but this is not fool-proof. B*15+ individuals can still succumb to severe infections. Check out a recent study from Prof Kedzierska's lab 👇🏼 showing a lack of public TCR usage in B*15+ patients with severe COVID.
September 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Central memory T cells with key TCR repertoires and gene expression profiles dominate influenza CD8+ T cell pools across the human lifespan @katherinekedz.bsky.social
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
July 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Thanks for the memories! Proud to have our study on central memory CD8+ T cells across the human lifespan published in PNAS today!
You can read our paper: go.unimelb.edu.au/rp7p
Or our article: go.unimelb.edu.au/jp7p
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Central memory T cells with key TCR repertoires and gene expression profiles dominate influenza CD8+ T cell pools across the human lifespan | PNAS
Central memory CD8+ T cells (Tcm) represent the prominent memory T cell subset in human blood, yet the persistence of T cell receptor (TCR) clonoty...
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July 23, 2025 at 4:49 AM