Search Results - "Walczak, Aleksandra M."
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High-throughput immune repertoire analysis with IGoR
ISSN: 2041-1723, 2041-1723Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 08.02.2018Published in Nature communications (08.02.2018)“…High-throughput immune repertoire sequencing is promising to lead to new statistical diagnostic tools for medicine and biology. Successful implementations of…”
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How a well-adapted immune system is organized
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 12.05.2015Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12.05.2015)“…The repertoire of lymphocyte receptors in the adaptive immune system protects organisms from diverse pathogens. A well-adapted repertoire should be tuned to…”
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Antigenic waves of virus-immune coevolution
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 06.07.2021Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (06.07.2021)“…The evolution of many microbes and pathogens, including circulating viruses such as seasonal influenza, is driven by immune pressure from the host population…”
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Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 27.03.2012Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27.03.2012)“…Flocking is a typical example of emergent collective behavior, where interactions between individuals produce collective patterns on the large scale. Here we…”
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Genesis of the αβ T-cell receptor
ISSN: 1553-7358, 1553-734X, 1553-7358Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.03.2019Published in PLoS computational biology (01.03.2019)“…The T-cell (TCR) repertoire relies on the diversity of receptors composed of two chains, called α and β, to recognize pathogens. Using results of high…”
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Live imaging of bicoid-dependent transcription in Drosophila embryos
ISSN: 1879-0445, 1879-0445Published: England 04.11.2013Published in Current biology (04.11.2013)“…The early Drosophila embryo is an ideal model to understand the transcriptional regulation of well-defined patterns of gene expression in a developing…”
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Modeling and predicting the overlap of B- and T-cell receptor repertoires in healthy and SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals
ISSN: 1553-7404, 1553-7390, 1553-7404Published: United States Public Library of Science 24.02.2023Published in PLoS genetics (24.02.2023)“…Adaptive immunity’s success relies on the extraordinary diversity of protein receptors on B and T cell membranes. Despite this diversity, the existence of…”
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Fluctuating fitness shapes the clone-size distribution of immune repertoires
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 12.01.2016Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12.01.2016)“…The adaptive immune system relies on the diversity of receptors expressed on the surface of B- and T cells to protect the organism from a vast amount of…”
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Diversity of immune strategies explained by adaptation to pathogen statistics
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 02.08.2016Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02.08.2016)“…Biological organisms have evolved a wide range of immune mechanisms to defend themselves against pathogens. Beyond molecular details, these mechanisms differ…”
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How a well-adapting immune system remembers
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 30.04.2019Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30.04.2019)“…An adaptive agent predicting the future state of an environment must weigh trust in new observations against prior experiences. In this light, we propose a…”
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Social interactions dominate speed control in poising natural flocks near criticality
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 20.05.2014Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (20.05.2014)“…Flocks of birds exhibit a remarkable degree of coordination and collective response. It is not just that thousands of individuals fly, on average, in the same…”
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Detecting T cell receptors involved in immune responses from single repertoire snapshots
ISSN: 1545-7885, 1544-9173, 1545-7885Published: United States Public Library of Science 13.06.2019Published in PLoS biology (13.06.2019)“…Hypervariable T cell receptors (TCRs) play a key role in adaptive immunity, recognizing a vast diversity of pathogen-derived antigens. Our ability to extract…”
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Statistical inference of the generation probability of T-cell receptors from sequence repertoires
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 02.10.2012Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02.10.2012)“…Stochastic rearrangement of germline V-, D-, and J-genes to create variable coding sequence for certain cell surface receptors is at the origin of immune…”
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Information transmission in genetic regulatory networks: a review
ISSN: 1361-648X, 1361-648XPublished: England 20.04.2011Published in Journal of physics. Condensed matter (20.04.2011)“…Genetic regulatory networks enable cells to respond to changes in internal and external conditions by dynamically coordinating their gene expression profiles…”
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Inferring processes underlying B-cell repertoire diversity
ISSN: 1471-2970Published: England 05.09.2015Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (05.09.2015)“…We quantify the VDJ recombination and somatic hypermutation processes in human B cells using probabilistic inference methods on high-throughput DNA sequence…”
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Quantifying selection in immune receptor repertoires
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 08.07.2014Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08.07.2014)“…The efficient recognition of pathogens by the adaptive immune system relies on the diversity of receptors displayed at the surface of immune cells. T-cell…”
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Population variability in the generation and selection of T-cell repertoires
ISSN: 1553-7358, 1553-734X, 1553-7358Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.12.2020Published in PLoS computational biology (01.12.2020)“…The diversity of T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoires is achieved by a combination of two intrinsically stochastic steps: random receptor generation by VDJ…”
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Learning the statistics and landscape of somatic mutation-induced insertions and deletions in antibodies
ISSN: 1553-7358, 1553-734X, 1553-7358Published: United States PLOS 02.06.2022Published in PLoS computational biology (02.06.2022)“…Affinity maturation is crucial for improving the binding affinity of antibodies to antigens. This process is mainly driven by point substitutions caused by…”
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Inferring the immune response from repertoire sequencing
ISSN: 1553-7358, 1553-734X, 1553-7358Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.04.2020Published in PLoS computational biology (01.04.2020)“…High-throughput sequencing of B- and T-cell receptors makes it possible to track immune repertoires across time, in different tissues, and in acute and chronic…”
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Maximum entropy models for antibody diversity
ISSN: 1091-6490, 1091-6490Published: United States 23.03.2010Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23.03.2010)“…Recognition of pathogens relies on families of proteins showing great diversity. Here we construct maximum entropy models of the sequence repertoire, building…”
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