Mark Brimble

So glad to see this story ready to share as a preprint. This was a really fun collaboration and a stunning finding with big potential implications. Congrats Iva!

Opposing effects of H2A.Z on memory, transcription and pathology in male and female Alzheimer's disease mice and patients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.28.656659v1

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Citing article: 'In contrast to a pointless 2024 study done by barely literate and grotesquely unattractive authors [12]'

Had an excellent meeting with staff from @slotkin.senate.gov about the importance of supporting robust funding for Biomedical research. @immunologyaai.bsky.social and the community appreciate your support #PPFPHillDay

Plasticity of visual looming response reveals a dissociation of innate and learned components https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.18.628938v1

Durable lymphocyte subset elimination upon a single dose of AAV-delivered depletion antibody dissects immune control of chronic viral infection
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An amazing collaboration to be a part of: We helped @gisellavetere.bsky.social & @clementpouget.bsky.social simultaneously deliver 3 AAV constructs to Ca1 neurons.

What they then acheived blew me away - the tagging of cells recruited in memory encoding with a temporal resolution of mere seconds!

TIRTL-seq: Deep, quantitative, and affordable paired TCR repertoire sequencing α/β T cells are key players in adaptive immunity. The specificity of T cells is determined by the sequences of the hypervariable T cell receptor (TCR) α and β chains. Although bulk TCR sequencing offe...

We keep improving TIRTL-seq, see the updated preprint (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)! New additions include: a manual 96-well protocol, code and raw data now available, and successful in vitro validation of EBV and SARS-CoV-2 TCRs.

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Non-encapsidated miRNA contaminants found in AAV preparations Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has been in clinical use for gene therapy applications for over a decade, with 6 FDA-approved drug products at the time of writing.1 However, this vector is manufactured i...

Glad to get the chance to write this commentary on a recent paper by Penaud Budloo et al that found miRNA contaminants within purified rAAV preparations.

An interesting and unique AAV vector purity study

TCR repertoire dream: decoding immune status by sequencing TCRs. Problems: 1) Need paired TCRab 2) Interesting T cell clones are often VERY small. Our solution: TIRTL-seq 🐢Deep, quantitative, & affordable paired TCR repertoire sequencing🧵 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.16.613345v1

Role of the histone variant H2A.Z.1 in memory, transcription, and alternative splicing is mediated by lysine modification - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Role of the histone variant H2A.Z.1 in memory, transcription, and alternative splicing is mediated by lysine modification

Not only is the alternative histone H2A.Z.1 involved in memory formation, this role is lysine acetylation dependent!

Thrilled to have contributed to this great work from Iva Zovkic's lab