Dr. Hannah Frank
@hannahkfrank
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Evolutionary ecologist; amateur immunologist; #bats and disease; @Tulane EEB Asst Prof; @viralemergence investigator; she/her; tweets are my own
Joined September 2011
Incredibly excited to be joining the faculty of @TulaneEEBiology as an assistant professor starting fall 2020!!! Come visit to talk bats and disease or just to eat beignets! 🦇🍩@Tulane
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Just completed that most NOLA of syllabus planning tasks: Making sure nothing important is planned for the Friday after Muses. #iykyk 👠👠👠
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Woooo!! PhD candidate # 4. This lady rocked it!! Congratulations, Andrea!! 🦇🦇
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New paper from our lab. Short summary: bats are not flying mice & their diet matters. Fun team effort @TSchountz @caylee_falvo
#Bat diet and #pathogen #spillover events: @danewingcrowley @rainamontana &co show that bats' #antibodies have higher diversity but lower avidity than those of mice; protein restriction enhances avidity, potentially impacting spillover risk #PLOSBiology
https://t.co/zFIl8F9Uo2
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Huge thanks to our other amazing collaborators who contributed to this: Ashley Reers, @AMikelov, Prasanti Kotagiri, James Ellison, and Christina Hutson!
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This duplication occurred in Vespertilionidae, the largest bat family, and has been retained in many species. The implications of this adaptive immune strategy for the evolutionary success of this family, or the ability of bats to harbor viruses, will be fascinating to explore.
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Both loci are functional but are used differentially across cell subsets. B cell receptors from the smaller, less complex locus are overrepresented in the naïve B cell repertoire; B cells using the second, larger locus preferentially contribute to antigen-experienced populations.
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So excited to share this work, led by Taylor Pursell as part of a collaboration with @ScottBoydLab. Some bat species have two immunoglobulin heavy chain loci on different chromosomes, changing what we know about mammalian adaptive immunity. https://t.co/I8zg3XW4Su
biorxiv.org
The genetic locus encoding immunoglobulin heavy chains (IgH) is critical for vertebrate humoral immune responses and diverse antibody repertoires. Immunoglobulin and T cell receptor loci of most bat...
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Excited to debut some new lab decor. (It’s only 10 minutes old; it’ll be covered soon. 😂)
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Thoughts, @jonrflanders @FrickWinifred @LabDavalos @danjbecker @seifert_steph @Nancy_Bat @Mormoops @tanyalama?
Just two days after going down a rabbit hole of albinism/leucism in bats, our team stumbled upon this beautiful blonde-haired, red-eyed Carollia castanea in Northwestern Ecuador! We’re not sure how to classify this combination of pigment loss - thoughts?
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Wooooo! @phoebelreuben is officially a PhD candidate! So excited to keep working with this amazing scientist!
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Advances in understanding #bat infection dynamics across biological scales | New Review in #ProcB: https://t.co/l3kqCYkcAm
@klphelps @hannahkfrank @Megan3Griffiths @dev_n_jones @lunn_tamika @KelseyRMoreno @lrvqzr @KadingLabCSU @WMarkotter @ReederLab @nycbat
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viralemergence.org
Verena is an NSF-funded Institute working towards using open data, biological research, and artificial intelligence to predict and prevent the next pandemic.
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This week, treaty negotiators are weighing a proposed @WHO system that would ensure global access to life-saving medicines and fund future science. Proud to share an open letter in @Nature from 290 scientists in 36 countries on why we support the proposal https://t.co/zDkWFf1r6z
nature.com
Nature - The proposed Pandemic Agreement must ensure that COVID-19 vaccine nationalism is never repeated; 290 scientists call for action.
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Had so much fun in the Chewbaccus parade with the Brainiac Krewe this weekend!!!!!!! Happy Mardi Gras everybody!!!!!!!!! @Lagomarsino_L @caitismuheil @hannahkfrank @Gunderwhelming
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33 years ago tonight, 14 women went to bed thinking about their finals, future in STEM and the upcoming holiday season. They didn’t know that these dreams threatened a man’s sense of self worth and that they wouldn’t survive to see their goals and aspirations become a reality.
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Having kids will really mess with your Spotify wrapped.
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