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Tejas Menon

@tejas-the-tcell.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in immunology at the Doherty institute

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Jennifer Habel @habeljen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our recent study now in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social investigates how pregnancy impacts the immune system. We identify key differences in circulating and decidual immune cell populations during pregnancy, with a focus on natural killer cells. Check out the details here: tinyurl.com/mvk8xcsx
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Multidimensional molecular profiling reveals decidual and circulating NK cell dynamics in early and late pregnancy
Overall, our study provides key insights into immunity in pregnancy and reveals fundamental differences in the NK cell compartment. Understanding pregnancy-specific immunology fills important knowledg...
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Carolien van de Sandt @cvandesandt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How does the #immune system’s battle with viruses change as we age?🦠👶➡️👵 Our #JGenVirol Review explores how aging & a lifetime of viral exposures shape immunity, viral protection&vaccination in older adults–a🧵⬇️ go.unimelb.edu.au/or2h @jagaevert.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @mcri.bsky.social
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immunity and correlates of protection change across human life #AgingResearch #ImmunoSky
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Nature Reviews Immunology @natrevimmunol.nature.com · 14/07/2026
ICYMI: The challenge and promise of studying human antigen-specific T cells
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The challenge and promise of studying human antigen-specific T cells
Nature Reviews Immunology, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41577-026-01331-0Antigen-specific T cells underpin immunity, cancer surveillance and autoimmunity, yet remain difficult to study. This Review describes the technologies and computational approaches that are helping to link T cell receptor specificity with function, revealing how intrinsic T cell properties shape immune outcomes across infection, vaccination and disease.
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Morgan Skinner @morganjskinner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Check out our new study published in #NatureCommunications highlighting positive vaccine responses in both Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people facing chronic health challenges. Our findings help close a key gap in understanding vaccine responses in First Nations people.
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Atypical B cells and inflammatory profiles delineate immunity to influenza vaccination in First Nations and non-Indigenous people with chronic multimorbidity - Nature Communications
Skinner et al. dissects immune responses to seasonal influenza vaccination in a high-risk comorbid population of Australian First Nations and non-Indigenous people, highlighting significant baseline i...
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Isabelle Foo @isabellefjh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Flu vaccination does more than protect against viruses circulating that year. Our study published in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine showed historic 1994 vaccine generated broad immune responses against future H1N1 & FluB strains, but not H3N2, spanning 30 years. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Historic 1994 influenza vaccine cohorts define breadth of antibody and B cell responses toward future influenza A and B viruses
B cell responses that bound to future H1N1 and influenza B virus strains, but not H3N2 strains, were elicited in adults by the 1994 influenza vaccine.
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EMBO Molecular Medicine @embomolmed.org · 09/03/2026
IFN-gene signatures in #Bcells following #influenza A and B virus infection and influenza #vaccination 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s44321-026-00395-8 By W. Zhang, @katherinekedz.bsky.social , T. Nguyen & colleagues @unimelb.edu.au @thedohertyinst.bsky.social
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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 @thedohertyinst.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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....
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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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Shanil Virani @shanilv.ca · 10/09/2025
🌌 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
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Louise Rowntree @louiserowntree.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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
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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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Jennifer Habel @habeljen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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/...
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Tejas Menon @tejas-the-tcell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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 @thedohertyinst.bsky.social‬ @cvandesandt.bsky.social‬ @katherinekedz.bsky.social‬
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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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