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Overview

Wei Shi is affiliated with the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions in the areas of Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Animal Science and Zoology, Immunology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their work covers a wide range of topics, notably in SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Animal Virus Infections Studies, Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Testing, and HIV Research and Treatment.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wei Shi include John R. Mascola, Lingshu Wang, Peter D. Kwong, Eun Sung Yang, and Yi Zhang.

Their publications appear frequently in recognized venues, with a strong presence in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science, Vaccines, New England Journal of Medicine, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Selected recent papers by Wei Shi include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine design enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness, 2020, Nature
  • Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Durability of mRNA-1273 vaccine-induced antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants, 2021, Science
  • mRNA-1273 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies against spike mutants from global SARS-CoV-2 variants, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Serum Neutralizing Activity Elicited by mRNA-1273 Vaccine, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine

Best Publications

  • limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies

    Matthew E. Ritchie;Belinda Phipson;Di Wu;Yifang Hu

  • featureCounts: an efficient general-purpose program for assigning sequence reads to genomic features

    Yang Liao;Gordon K. Smyth;Wei Shi

  • voom: precision weights unlock linear model analysis tools for RNA-seq read counts

    Charity W Law;Charity W Law;Yunshun Chen;Yunshun Chen;Wei Shi;Wei Shi;Gordon K Smyth;Gordon K Smyth

  • The Subread aligner: fast, accurate and scalable read mapping by seed-and-vote

    Yang Liao;Gordon K. Smyth;Wei Shi

  • The R package Rsubread is easier, faster, cheaper and better for alignment and quantification of RNA sequencing reads.

    Yang Liao;Yang Liao;Gordon K Smyth;Gordon K Smyth;Wei Shi;Wei Shi

  • SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine design enabled by prototype pathogen preparedness.

    Kizzmekia S. Corbett;Darin K. Edwards;Sarah R. Leist;Olubukola M. Abiona

  • Structural basis for broad and potent neutralization of HIV-1 by antibody VRC01.

    Tongqing Zhou;Ivelin Georgiev;Xueling Wu;Zhi Yong Yang

  • Immunogenicity and structures of a rationally designed prefusion MERS-CoV spike antigen

    Jesper Pallesen;Nianshuang Wang;Kizzmekia S. Corbett;Daniel Wrapp

  • Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates.

    Kizzmekia S Corbett;Barbara Flynn;Kathryn E Foulds;Joseph R Francica

  • A comprehensive assessment of RNA-seq accuracy, reproducibility and information content by the Sequencing Quality Control Consortium

    Zhenqiang Su;Paweł P. Łabaj;Sheng Li;Jean Thierry-Mieg

  • Hobit and Blimp1 instruct a universal transcriptional program of tissue residency in lymphocytes.

    Laura K. Mackay;Laura K. Mackay;Martina Minnich;Natasja A. M. Kragten;Yang Liao;Yang Liao

  • The transcription factors Blimp-1 and IRF4 jointly control the differentiation and function of effector regulatory T cells

    Erika Cretney;Annie Xin;Annie Xin;Wei Shi;Wei Shi;Martina Minnich

  • The transcriptional regulators IRF4, BATF and IL-33 orchestrate development and maintenance of adipose tissue-resident regulatory T cells

    Ajithkumar Vasanthakumar;Kazuyo Moro;Annie Xin;Yang Liao

  • mRNA-1273 vaccine induces neutralizing antibodies against spike mutants from global SARS-CoV-2 variants

    Kai Wu;Anne P. Werner;Juan I. Moliva;Matthew Koch

  • Transcription factor IRF4 Promotes CD8 + T cell exhaustion and limits the development of memory-like T cells during chronic infection

    Kevin Man;Sarah S. Gabriel;Yang Liao;Yang Liao;Renee Gloury;Renee Gloury

  • The transcription factor IRF4 is essential for TCR affinity–mediated metabolic programming and clonal expansion of T cells

    Kevin Man;Maria Miasari;Maria Miasari;Wei Shi;Wei Shi;Annie Xin;Annie Xin

  • Detecting and correcting systematic variation in large-scale RNA sequencing data

    Sheng Li;Paweł P Łabaj;Paul Zumbo;Peter Sykacek

  • Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody

    Davide Corti;John Misasi;Sabue Mulangu;Daphne A. Stanley

  • Serum Neutralizing Activity Elicited by mRNA-1273 Vaccine.

    Kai Wu;Anne P Werner;Matthew Koch;Angela Choi

  • Transcriptional profiling of mouse B cell terminal differentiation defines a signature for antibody-secreting plasma cells

    Wei Shi;Yang Liao;Simon N Willis;Nadine Taubenheim

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon K. Smyth
Gordon K. Smyth Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Axel Kallies
Axel Kallies University of Melbourne
Stephen L. Nutt
Stephen L. Nutt Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Gabrielle T. Belz
Gabrielle T. Belz University of Queensland
John R. Mascola
John R. Mascola ModeX Therapeutics
Peter D. Kwong
Peter D. Kwong Columbia University Medical Center
Lynn M. Corcoran
Lynn M. Corcoran Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Nicholas D. Huntington
Nicholas D. Huntington Monash University
Tongqing Zhou
Tongqing Zhou National Institutes of Health
Kizzmekia S. Corbett
Kizzmekia S. Corbett Harvard University

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