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Overview

Adam K. Wheatley is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research focuses extensively on immunology and infectious diseases, with significant contributions to understanding immune responses in viral infections, particularly SARS-CoV-2.

Their recent publications include research on immune protection and vaccine responses:

  • Neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Antibody-dependent enhancement and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and therapies, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Humoral and circulating follicular helper T cell responses in recovered patients with COVID-19, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Evolution of immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in mild-moderate COVID-19, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Butyrophilin 2A1 is essential for phosphoantigen reactivity by γδ T cells, 2020, Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wheatley include:

  • Stephen J. Kent
  • Jennifer A. Juno
  • Hyon-Xhi Tan
  • Katherine Kedzierska
  • Wen Shi Lee

Wheatley has published predominantly in these venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Nature Communications
  • Immunology and Cell Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

The main fields of study for Wheatley's work are Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology.

In terms of subfields, the research primarily covers:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Immunology
  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

The main scientific topics addressed by Wheatley include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Respiratory viral infections research

Best Publications

  • Neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.

    David S. Khoury;Deborah Cromer;Arnold Reynaldi;Timothy E. Schlub;Timothy E. Schlub

  • Antibody-dependent enhancement and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and therapies.

    Wen Shi Lee;Adam K Wheatley;Stephen J Kent;Stephen J Kent;Brandon J DeKosky

  • Humoral and circulating follicular helper T cell responses in recovered patients with COVID-19.

    Jennifer A. Juno;Hyon Xhi Tan;Wen Shi Lee;Arnold Reynaldi

  • Butyrophilin 2A1 is essential for phosphoantigen reactivity by γδ T cells.

    Marc Rigau;Marc Rigau;Simone Ostrouska;Thomas S Fulford;Darryl N Johnson

  • Evolution of immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in mild-moderate COVID-19.

    Adam K Wheatley;Jennifer A Juno;Jing J Wang;Kevin J Selva

  • Vaccine-Induced Antibodies that Neutralize Group 1 and Group 2 Influenza A Viruses

    M. Gordon Joyce;Adam K. Wheatley;Paul V. Thomas;Gwo-Yu Chuang

  • Neutralising antibody titres as predictors of protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants and the impact of boosting: a meta-analysis.

    Deborah Cromer;Megan Steain;Arnold Reynaldi;Timothy E Schlub;Timothy E Schlub

  • Mosaic nanoparticle display of diverse influenza virus hemagglutinins elicits broad B cell responses

    Masaru Kanekiyo;M Gordon Joyce;M Gordon Joyce;Rebecca A Gillespie;John R Gallagher

  • A human monoclonal antibody prevents malaria infection by targeting a new site of vulnerability on the parasite

    Neville K. Kisalu;Azza H. Idris;Connor Weidle;Yevel Flores-Garcia

  • Anti-PEG Antibodies Boosted in Humans by SARS-CoV-2 Lipid Nanoparticle mRNA Vaccine

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  • Defining B cell immunodominance to viruses

    Davide Angeletti;James S Gibbs;Matthew Angel;Ivan Kosik

  • Prospects for durable immune control of SARS-CoV-2 and prevention of reinfection

    Deborah Cromer;Jennifer A. Juno;David Khoury;Arnold Reynaldi

  • Flow cytometry reveals that H5N1 vaccination elicits cross-reactive stem-directed antibodies from multiple Ig heavy chain lineages

    James R R Whittle;Adam K. Wheatley;Lan Wu;Daniel Lingwood

  • From influenza to COVID-19: Lipid nanoparticle mRNA vaccines at the frontiers of infectious diseases.

    Emily H. Pilkington;Estelle J.A. Suys;Natalie L. Trevaskis;Adam K. Wheatley

  • Circulating TFH cells, serological memory, and tissue compartmentalization shape human influenza-specific B cell immunity.

    Marios Koutsakos;Adam K. Wheatley;Liyen Loh;E. Bridie Clemens

  • Immunological Principles Guiding the Rational Design of Particles for Vaccine Delivery

    Katelyn T. Gause;Adam K. Wheatley;Jiwei Cui;Yan Yan

  • Atypical B cells are part of an alternative lineage of B cells that participates in responses to vaccination and infection in humans.

    Henry J. Sutton;Racheal Aye;Racheal Aye;Azza H. Idris;Rachel Vistein

  • Loss of circulating CD4 T cells with B cell helper function during chronic HIV infection.

    Kristin L. Boswell;Robert Paris;Eli Boritz;David Ambrozak

  • Suboptimal SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8 + T cell response associated with the prominent HLA-A*02:01 phenotype.

    Jennifer R. Habel;Thi H.O. Nguyen;Carolien E. van de Sandt;Carolien E. van de Sandt;Jennifer A. Juno

  • Influenza lineage extinction during the COVID-19 pandemic?

    Marios Koutsakos;Adam K. Wheatley;Karen Laurie;Stephen J. Kent;Stephen J. Kent

  • Systems serology detects functionally distinct coronavirus antibody features in children and elderly.

    Kevin J. Selva;Carolien E. van de Sandt;Carolien E. van de Sandt;Melissa M. Lemke;Christina Y. Lee

  • Integrated immune dynamics define correlates of COVID-19 severity and antibody responses.

    Marios Koutsakos;Louise C. Rowntree;Luca Hensen;Brendon Y. Chua;Brendon Y. Chua

  • Abnormal B cell memory subsets dominate HIV-specific responses in infected individuals

    Lela Kardava;Susan Moir;Naisha Shah;Wei Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen J. Kent
Stephen J. Kent University of Melbourne
Katherine Kedzierska
Katherine Kedzierska University of Melbourne
Adrian B. McDermott
Adrian B. McDermott National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Kanta Subbarao
Kanta Subbarao University of Melbourne
Jamie Rossjohn
Jamie Rossjohn Monash University
P. Mark Hogarth
P. Mark Hogarth Burnet Institute
Miles P. Davenport
Miles P. Davenport University of New South Wales
Aeron C. Hurt
Aeron C. Hurt Roche (Switzerland)
Dale I. Godfrey
Dale I. Godfrey University of Melbourne
M. Gordon Joyce
M. Gordon Joyce Henry M. Jackson Foundation

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