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Tomer Hertz @tomerhertz.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Now finally out in PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... Check out our cool new method for generating HLA Class I superbinders - 9-mer peptides that can bind upto 9 alleles from 9 different supertypes!. Amazing work by my students Elinor Peer and Liel Cohen. Lots of fun to collaborate with the Sette lab.

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Computational design of HLA class I superbinders for broad T cell immunogenicity | PNAS

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules are highly polymorphic, restricting peptide binding to narrow sequence subsets. Designing peptides ...

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Tomer Hertz @tomerhertz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

First pre-print from our lab for 2026: tinyurl.com/mvh2duzn. We conducted a systems serology study of healthcare workers who received 3 or 4 doses of the Pfizer vaccine along 7 months. 80 Participants were selected at enrollment based on their SARS-CoV-2 antibody profiles 1/2

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Non-Neutralizing Antibody Functions Predict Susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 Infection after mRNA Booster Vaccination

Previous studies have shown that neutralizing and binding antibody titers are correlates of protection for symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. We previously repor

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Tomer Hertz @tomerhertz.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Excited to see my students Hanna Oppenheimer and Joel Cherian Jacob presenting at @iuis-online.bsky.social yesterday. Took us time to figure out how to get here but we did!

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Tomer Hertz @tomerhertz.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

About 17 years ago Chen Yanover and me had an idea to develop a method for generating HLA superbinders - peptides that bind alleles from multiple HLA supertypes. 14 years later my students Elinor Peer and Liel Cohen-Lavi took it to the finish line: t.co/KpXh0KjCbq . Good ideas are worth pursuing...

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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.10.664084v1

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Tomer Hertz @tomerhertz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Congratulations to Tomer Tzur from my lab for winning a best poster award at the Israeli Society for Immunology meeting held in Tel-Aviv yesterday. Excited to see his exciting project in collaboration with Prof. Dan Turner's group move forward.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

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Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm

See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

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Tomer Hertz @tomerhertz.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Conversation on bus in Athens airport bet. two young men: M1: what language do they speak in Greece? M2: Greek M1: are you kidding me? Does that language even exist? It’s like saying that in Brazil they speak Brazilian Reminded me of a nice Hebrew song: Empires fall slowly youtu.be/UBAAkJm-v2s?...

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דן תורן וחמי רודנר - אימפריות נופלות לאט | בהופעה בבארבי

YouTube video by מוזיקה ישראלית

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Tomer Hertz @tomerhertz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Driving in my car and listening to Genesis “Firth of Fifth” which always transports me back to being 18 and discovering Genesis for the first time. As a pianist the intro of this song is one that I immediately wanted to play. And there is also that amazing flute solo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz-t...

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Genesis - Firth Of Fifth (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Genesis

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