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Alexander Ploss

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Infectious disease biologist, innovator, entrepreneur

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Alexander Ploss
11 months
RT @iannaconelab: Great #TWiV episode with @profvrr and @RichCondit interviewing our very own @maini_lab and John Tavis at the Internationa….
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Alexander Ploss
11 months
Thank you very much @MoAlQuraishi for an outstanding keynote lecture and great discussions at the International #HBV meeting in #Chicago. @HepBFoundation @iannaconelab.
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Alexander Ploss
1 year
Just a quick reminder that the abstract submission deadline for the international #HBV meeting is June 28 (3pm EDT)! Please register and submit your abstracts! @iannaconelab @HepBFoundation and I are looking forward to welcoming you in #Chicago Please RT.
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Alexander Ploss
1 year
RT @NatImmunol: Loke and colleagues quantify the relative and interactive contributions of genetic and environmental influences on heteroge….
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Nature Immunology - Oyesola and colleagues show that rewilding mice reveals how genotype and environment combine to determine interindividual immune variation.
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Alexander Ploss
1 year
RT @PrincetonMolBio: Deadline E X T E N D E D! Applications📄 are now⏳ being accepted for the 2024 MolBio Scholars program. For more info an….
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Alexander Ploss
1 year
RT @JHepatology: 🆕Hepatology Snapshot❕. Formation and transcriptional regulation of hepatitis B virus covalently closed circular DNA. Full….
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Alexander Ploss
1 year
RT @HepBFoundation: Babies born to a mother with #hepatitisB have a greater than 90% 📈 chance of developing hepatitis B if they're not prop….
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1 year
RT @HepBFoundation: Adults in the U.S. have very low rates of vaccination, primarily because many were born before the vaccine became a hea….
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Alexander Ploss
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RT @PrincetonMolBio: Applications📄 are now⏳ being accepted for the 2024 MolBio Scholars program. For more info and to apply, visit: https:/….
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Alexander Ploss
1 year
RT @PrincetonMolBio: CRISPR is an amazing gene🧬-editing tool! And the @bsadamson Adamson lab is making it even better!! Read the explainer….
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Alexander Ploss
1 year
RT @casanova_lab: It has been an immense privilege and honor to review with John MacMicking and Carl Nathan in @ScienceMagazine the past 40….
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Alexander Ploss
2 years
Please check out our newest study deciphering diff. in signaling strength betw type I&III #interferon receptors Outstanding work by @EmilyMesev + fantastic collaboration with the terrific @toettch ! Thanks to everyone involved! @PrincetonMolBio @Princeton.
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An intracellular motif in type I interferon receptors ensures they signal more strongly than their type III counterparts.
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Alexander Ploss
2 years
Thank you very much @RMedzhitov for an excellent, thought provoking seminar and insightful discussions during your visit @Princeton EEB and @PrincetonMolBio #immunology @CJEMetcalf @Grahammunology.
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Alexander Ploss
2 years
Fantastic collaboration with @cambearon on the development of qCARMEN! Outstanding work by lead author @realbriankang aided by Jiayu Zhang, Michael Schwoerer, Amy Nelson and many others. @PrincetonMolBio @Princeton @PrincetonCHW.
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Cameron Myhrvold
2 years
Really excited to share the first preprint from a project that started in my lab! We hope that others find this approach for scalable, multiplexed, CRISPR-based quantification of gene expression useful. See the thread from first author @realbriankang summarizing qCARMEN:.
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RT @zz_zhaozhang: Our new work in ⁦@Nature⁩ to explain how retrotransposons synthesize the 2nd-strand DNA by a circularization process. St….
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Alexander Ploss
2 years
Our newest study is now online!.#Hepatitis delta virus #HDV RNA decline post-inoculation in human NTCP transgenic mice is biphasic | mBio Congratulations to @stephmaya8 Leeor & Fabian and everyone else involved! @PrincetonMolBio @LoyolaChicago @NO_hep.
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The persistence phase of HDV infection has been studied in some animal models; however, the early kinetics of HDV in vivo is incompletely understood. In this study, we characterize an unexpectedly...
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Alexander Ploss
2 years
RT @ElowitzLab: RNA is informant and agent. Controlled RNA export from cells could enable cell-cell delivery of functional and non-destruct….
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Alexander Ploss
2 years
RT @ScheelLab: Excited to share our labs first @Nature paper! In collaboration with @VintherLab we show that hepatitis C virus #RNA is capp….
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