Gabriel Victora

I’ll take it. But I’ll be renewing my bet again next year

Very

I would be happy to be wrong in that case!

B and T cells—the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system - Lasker Foundation For their discovery of the two distinct classes of lymphocytes, B and T cells – a monumental achievement that provided the organizing principle of the adaptive immune system and launched the course of...

Renewing my yearly bet on Cooper/Miller for the Nobels.

One might think that I would learn after being wrong so many times, but one would be mistaken.

laskerfoundation.org/winners/b-an...

@cyrilpedia.bsky.social is biased, I’ve grilled him too many steaks

Congratulations to all, especially Rockefeller's @veenapadmanaban.bsky.social, a research associate in
@sohailtavazoie.bsky.social's lab, and Maria Cecilia Campos Canesso, formerly a postdoc in @danmucida.bsky.social and @victora.bsky.social’s labs. A very well-deserved recognition!

Congrats!! Increadibly well deserved, at the risk of stating the obvious!

2/ Did adaptive immune cells learn to cooperate before the modern immune system existed? Awardee @affinityborn.bsky.social may redefine what's essential for immune memory & enable alternative immune architectures.
🥳 Congrats Dr. Wesemann! @harvardmed.bsky.social
🙏 #HFScout @victora.bsky.social

Inference of germinal center evolutionary dynamics via simulation-based deep learning B cells and the antibodies they produce are vital to health and survival, motivating research on the details of the mutational and evolutionary processes in the germinal centers (GC) from which mature...

In a new preprint we use deep learning on lineage trees to infer the functional form of the relationship between affinity and fitness that controls antibody evolution in germinal centers: arxiv.org/abs/2508.09871 🧵

In the minority here, but I think it would be refreshing and I'd appreciate reading a piece like "On the value of reductionist science".

While *incredibly* valuable, not everything *needs* -omics and the like, let alone when only done because it _can_ be done, with an illusion of mechanism.

Oslo University's Johanne Tracey Jacobsen visited CCII this week & shared exciting progress in the application of cutting edge imaging techniques to decode dynamic T-B interactions in the Germinal Center.
#Immunology #GerminalCenter
www.jjacobsenlab.com

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Check it out, a great opportunity for people looking to start their own lab in Japan 👇
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a classic!

Germinal center clonal diversity trees as a musical score, a great image to start @victora.bsky.social's CCII seminar, "Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape"
#GerminalCenter #Immunology
www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/the...

Following Daniel @danmucida.bsky.social's session, Angelina Bilate @rockefelleruniv.bsky.social discussed strategies to identify antigen specific T cells.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@cyrilpedia.bsky.social

With a little help from my friend

A great start to a 3-day workshop: Daniel & Angelina Bilate discussing with students & postdocs at @ccii-kyoto.bsky.social all the obstacles faced & strategies to overcome them (or, more drastically, the thorny topic of when to pull the plug on a project).
www.ccii.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/event/wor...

Our streamlined Junior PI application process asks you to submit:
a cover letter;
a research plan;
a current curriculum vitae;
brief narrative summary of your main research achievements;
Contact information for three references
#Immunology #Immunotherapy

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Great to be back for the last iteration of this great symposium. It will be missed!

Nice, thank you. Maybe some of these features will turn out to be broadly true whenever there is clonal expansion in adaptive immune systems

I'm stoked to have this long-term and highly collaborative effort out in the wild. We present an experimental evolution system to quantitatively study the rapid evolutionary dynamics of B-cell affinity maturation. These evolutionary mechanisms underpin antibody responses and immune memory formation.

Thanks for the kind words. I’m curious, what parallels do you mean?

Another tour de force by the Victora lab. A must read for germinal center aficionados. There goes the weekend!

Additional credit to multiple members of the Matsen, Victora, and other labs, especially Jared Galloway for coding; @tylernstarr.bsky.social and @jbloomlab.bsky.social for deep mutational scanning; Ward lab for cryo-EM; and @thearmita.bsky.social and @yun-s-song.bsky.social for help with modeling

We took this idea seriously and applied it to germinal centers, evolving the same reaction over 100 times. No spoilers here, though I can tell you that the amount of data is huge, and some of the findings were pretty surprising. Please check out the preprint!

In his book Wonderful Life, Stephen Jay Gould proposes a thought experiment where one would replay evolution on Earth many times from the beginning, so as to find out what features would emerge reproducibly and which ones were contingent on historical accidents

Replaying germinal center evolution on a quantified affinity landscape Darwinian evolution of immunoglobulin genes within germinal centers (GC) underlies the progressive increase in antibody affinity following antigen exposure. Whereas the mechanics of how competition be...

Wanted to highlight our latest preprint--a huge effort by multiple people and labs, but led primarily by @wsdewitt.github.io, Tatsuya Araki, and Ashni Vora, in a very close wet-dry collaboration with @matsen.bsky.social’s lab at the Hutch

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

”replication crisis” has always been hyperbole. Scientists ALWAYS argued, called each other frauds, and eventually land on consensus. A lot of what van Leeuwenhoek observed in the late 1600s was NOT REPRODUCIBLE because nobody could make lenses like him. But he was right, about cells, and bacteria.

thanks to @danmucida.bsky.social, @kamphorstlab.bsky.social and Joel Ernst (UCSF) for reporting these problems and coming up with the solution!