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10/22/21 - A true privilege to share our work with Senator Bob Casey

9/30/21 - Honored to share our work with Secretary of State Antony Blinken

9/15/21 - Wonderful “visiting” the University of Texas at Austin Department of Molecular Biosciences to share our work and hear about the awesome ongoing research there

9/2/21 - Finally, a safe, distant pseudo-lab-warming

9/1/21 - Thank you to the public who attended the ASV COVID-19 Vaccine Education Town Hall

8/26/21 - We had a fanatic time meeting with trainees at Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology (HPI)

8/18/21 - Kevin gains full BSL3 access and select agent clearance

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8/14/2021 - Our lab joined the rest of CVR for a day of outreach at the Carnegie Science Center

8/9/21 - Holly Simmons starts in the laboratory as a research technician. Welcome Holly!

6/1/21 - A Prevalent Focused Human Antibody Response to the Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin Head Interface is now published in mBIO

6/1/21 - Differential immune imprinting by influenza virus vaccination and infection in nonhuman primates is now published in PNAS

4/30/21 - We are now funded to produce improved influenza hemagglutinin immunogens through the NIH CIVICs program via DCVC

4/6/21 - Had a great time with the panel of experts for WESA’s "COVID-19: Vaccines, Variants and The Future."

4/5/2021 - Great to talk to Meghan Schiller at CBS Pittsburgh (KDKA) about SARS-CoV-2 evolution.

3/14/21 - Surreal to see our work featured on 60-minutes

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3/12/21 - Recurrent deletions in the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein drive antibody escape is now fully published in Science

3/8/21 - Deletion disrupts a conserved antibody epitope in a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern is now on bioRxiv

3/7/21 - Wonderful article by Carolyn Johnson on SARS-CoV-2 evolution

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2/26/21 - One small step for a structural/evolutionary biologist entering BSL3. Not shown: note saying Student->Postdoc->PI->rotation student.

2/15/21 Podcast on SARS-CoV-2 evolution with Faye Flam is now live

2/4/21 - Kevin’s first radio appearance talking SARS-CoV-2 evolution with Rick Dayton at KDKA radio. Some may have thought it would be sports radio. It is great to to speak with the people of our new home.

1/19/21 - Wonderful sharing our latest results with MassCPR

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1/6/21 - We exist!

1/6/21 - An honor to present our work to the WHO assay working group

1/4/21 - We have emerged!

Prologue - Fantastic to begin my independent work at the CVR, remotely. SARS-CoV-2 has changed everything including our research direction.