Hybrid Monday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller community)
Monday, November 24, 2025
Theodora Hatziioannou, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller University
Virus vs Host: An Evolutionary Chess Match
Recommended Readings:
Wiatr, Marie, et al. “Memory B cell Development in Response to mRNA SARS-CoV-2 and Nanoparticle Immunization in Mice.” bioRxiv (2025): 2025-10.
Deimel, Lachlan P., et al. “Clonal expansion and diversification of germinal center and memory B cell responses to booster immunization in primates.” Cell Reports 44.8 (2025).
Fan, Chengcheng, et al. “Cross-reactive sarbecovirus antibodies induced by mosaic RBD nanoparticles.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122.21 (2025): e2501637122.
Sankhala, Rajeshwer S., et al. “Diverse array of neutralizing antibodies elicited upon Spike Ferritin Nanoparticle vaccination in rhesus macaques.” Nature Communications 15.1 (2024): 200.
Witte, Leander, et al. “Epistasis lowers the genetic barrier to SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody escape.” Nature Communications 14.1 (2023): 302.