Project B3
Adaptive immune control of evolving pathogens
Armita Nourmohammad, MPI for Dyn. and Self-Organ. | web | email
This project will model and infer selection on B cell immune repertoires, which is a key building block of evolutionary models for broadly neutralizing antibodies. Based on these models, we will develop a stochastic control theory for HIV antibodies that predicts optimal protocols to elicit broad neutralization characteristics.
Predictability in Evolution
Collaborative Research Center 1310
Publications
Design of an optimal combination therapy with broadly neutralizing antibodies to suppress HIV-1
LaMont C., Otwinowski J., Vanshylla K., Gruell H., Klein F., Nourmohammad A., eLife, 19. July 2022, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76004
Antigenic evolution of human influenza H3N2 neuraminidase is constrained by charge balancing
Wang Y., Lei R., Nourmohammad A., Wu N.C., eLife 2021;10:e72516, 8. December 2021, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.72516
Montague Z., Lv H., Otwinowski J., DeWitt W.S., Isacchini G., Yip G.K., Ng W.W., Tsang O.T.-Y., Yuan M., Liu H., Wilson I.A., Peiris J.S.M., Wu N.C., Nourmohammad A., Ka Pun Mok C, Cell 35(8), 25. May 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109173
Optimal evolutionary decision-making to store immune memory
Schnaack O.H., Nourmohammad A., eLife 10:e61346, 28. April 2021, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61346
Deep generative selection models of T and B cell receptor repertoires with soNNia
Isacchini G., Walczak A.M., Mora T., Nourmohammad A., PNAS 118 (14) e2023141118, 6. April 2021, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023141118
Optimal Evolutionary Control for Artificial Selection on Molecular Phenotypes
Nourmohammad A. & Eksin C., Phys. Rev. X 11, 011044, 4. March 2021, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.11.011044
Information-Geometric Optimization with Natural Selection
Otwinowski J, LaMont C.H., Nourmohammad A. , Entropy 2020, 22(9), 967, 31. August 2020, https://doi.org/10.3390/e22090967
SOS: online probability estimation and generation of T-and B-cell receptors
Isacchini G., Olivares C., Nourmohammad. A, Walczak A.M., Mora T., Bioinformatics, Volume 36, Issue 16, 4510–4512, 15. August 2020, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa574
Generative models of T-cell receptor sequences
Isacchini G., Sethna Z., Elhanati Y., Nourmohammad A., Walczak A.M., Mora T., Phys. Rev. E 101, 062414, 15. June 2020, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.062414
Major antigenic site B of human influenza H3N2 viruses has an evolving local fitness landscape
Wu N. C., Otwinowski J., Thompson A. J., Nycholat C. M. Nourmohammad A. and Wilson I. A., Nat Commun 11, 1233, 6. March 2020, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15102-5
The size of the immune repertoire of bacteria
Bradde S., Nourmohammad A., Goyal S., and Balasubramanian V., PNAS:201903666, 18. February 2020, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903666117
Fierce Selection and Interference in B-Cell Repertoire Response to Chronic HIV-1
Nourmohammad A., Otwinowski J., Łuksza M., Mora T., M. Walczak A., Molecular Biology and Evolution, msz143, 18. June 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz143
Adaptive Evolution of Gene Expression in Drosophila
Nourmohammad A., Rambeau J., Held T., Kovacova V., Berg J., Lässig M., Cell Reports Volume 20 Issue 6: 1385 - 1395, 13. July 2017, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.07.033
Host-Pathogen Coevolution and the Emergence of Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies in Chronic Infections
Nourmohammad A., Otwinowski J., Plotkin J.B., PLoS Genetics 12: e1006171, 21. July 2016, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006171