Kim W. Germinal Center Response to mRNA Vaccination and Impact of Immunological Imprinting on Subsequent Vaccination. Immune Netw. 2024;24(4).

Schattgen SA, Turner JS, Ghonim MA, Crawford JC, Schmitz AJ, Kim H, Zhou JQ, Awad W, Mettelman RC, Kim W, McIntire KM, Haile A, Klebert MK, Suessen T, Middleton WD, Teefey SA, Presti RM, Ellebedy AH, Thomas PG. Influenza vaccination stimulates maturation of the human T follicular helper cell response. Nature Immunology. 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41590-024-01926-6.

Borcherding N, Kim W, Quinn M, Han F, Zhou JQ, Sturtz AJ, Schmitz AJ, Lei T, Schattgen SA, Klebert MK, Suessen T, Middleton WD, Goss CW, Liu C, Crawford JC, Thomas PG, Teefey SA, Presti RM, O’Halloran JA, Turner JS, Ellebedy AH, Mudd PA. CD4+ T cells exhibit distinct transcriptional phenotypes in the lymph nodes and blood following mRNA vaccination in humans. Nature Immunology. 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41590-024-01888-9.

McIntire KM*, Meng H*, Lin T-H*, Kim W, Moore NE, Han J, McMahon M, Wang M, Malladi SK, Mohammed BM, Zhou JQ, Schmitz AJ, Hoehn KB, Carreño JM, Yellin T, Suessen T, Middleton WD, Teefey SA, Presti RM, Krammer F, Turner JS, Ward AB, Wilson IA, Kleinstein SH, Ellebedy AH. Maturation of germinal center B cells after influenza virus vaccination in humans. Journal of Experimental Medicine. 2024;221(8). doi: 10.1084/jem.20240668. *co-first authors

Lei R*, Kim W*, Lv H*, Mou Z*, Scherm MJ*, Schmitz AJ, Turner JS, Tan TJC, Wang Y, Ouyang WO, Liang W, Rivera-Cardona J, Teo C, Graham CS, Brooke CB, Presti RM, Mok CKP, Krammer F, Dai X, Ellebedy AH, Wu NC. Leveraging vaccination-induced protective antibodies to define conserved epitopes on influenza N2 neuraminidase. Immunity. 2023;56(11):2621-34.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.10.005. *co-first authors

Alsoussi WB, Malladi SK, Zhou JQ, Liu Z, Ying B, Kim W, Schmitz AJ, Lei T, Horvath SC, Sturtz AJ, McIntire KM, Evavold B, Han F, Scheaffer SM, Fox IF, Mirza SF, Parra-Rodriguez L, Nachbagauer R, Nestorova B, Chalkias S, Farnsworth CW, Klebert MK, Pusic I, Strnad BS, Middleton WD, Teefey SA, Whelan SPJ, Diamond MS, Paris R, O’Halloran JA, Presti RM, Turner JS, Ellebedy AH. SARS-CoV-2 Omicron boosting induces de novo B cell response in humans. Nature. 2023. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06025-4.

Greene SE, Huang Y, Kim W, Liebeskind MJ, Chandrasekaran V, Liu Z, Deepak P, Paley MA, Lew D, Yang M, Matloubian M, Gensler LS, Nakamura MC, O'Hallaran JA, Presti RM, Whelan SPJ, Buchser WJ, Kim AHJ, Weil GJ. A simple point-of-care assay accurately detects anti-spike antibodies after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Journal of Clinical Virology Plus. 2023;3(1):100135. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcvp.2023.100135.

Pawar N, Taylor KE, Yang M, Deepak P, Kim W, Paley MA, Matloubian M, Carvidi A, Ciorba MA, Demissie E, El-Qunni A, Huang K, Kinnett B, McMorrow LE, Paez D, Poole M, Rose A, Schriefer RE, Kim AHJ, Nakamura M, Katz P, Gensler LS. Sleep Disturbance and SARS–CoV-2 Vaccinations in Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Disease. Arthritis Care & Research. 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.25065.

Min H, Kim W, Hong S, Lee S, Jeong J, Kim S, Seong RH. Differentiation and homeostasis of effector Treg cells are regulated by inositol polyphosphates modulating Ca2+ influx. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2022;119(27):e2121520119. doi: doi:10.1073/pnas.2121520119.

Yang MM, Taylor KE, Paez D, Carividi A, Demissie E, Pawar N, El-Qunni AA, McMorrow LE, Schriefer RE, Huang K, Kinnett B, Klebert M, Haile A, O'Halloran JA, Presti RM, Kim W, Ellebedy AH, Ciorba MA, Paley MA, Deepak P, Kim AHJ, Katz P, Matloubian M, Nakamura M, Gensler LS. Reactogenicity of the mRNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Associates with Immunogenicity in Patients with Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease. Arthritis Care & Research. 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.24894.

Kim W*, Zhou JQ*, Horvath SC, Schmitz AJ, Sturtz AJ, Lei T, Liu Z, Kalaidina E, Thapa M, Alsoussi WB, Haile A, Klebert MK, Suessen T, Parra-Rodriguez L, Mudd PA, Whelan SPJ, Middleton WD, Teefey SA, Pusic I, O’Halloran JA, Presti RM, Turner JS, Ellebedy AH. Germinal centre-driven maturation of B cell response to mRNA vaccination. Nature. 2022;604(7904):141-5. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04527-1 *co-first authors

Mudd PA*, Minervina AA*, Pogorelyy MV*, Turner JS, Kim W, Kalaidina E, Petersen J, Schmitz AJ, Lei T, Haile A, Kirk AM, Mettelman RC, Crawford JC, Nguyen THO, Rowntree LC, Rosati E, Richards KA, Sant AJ, Klebert MK, Suessen T, Middleton WD, Wolf J, Teefey SA, O’Halloran JA, Presti RM, Kedzierska K, Rossjohn J, Thomas PG, Ellebedy AH. SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination elicits a robust and persistent T follicular helper cell response in humans. Cell. 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.026. *co-first authors

Chen RE, Gorman MJ, Zhu DY, Carreño JM, Yuan D, Vanblargan LA, Burdess S, Lauffenburger DA, Kim W, Turner JS, Droit L, Handley SA, Chahin S, Deepak P, O’Halloran JA, Paley MA, Presti RM, Wu GF, Krammer F, Alter G, Ellebedy AH, Kim AHJ, Diamond MS. Reduced antibody activity against SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 delta virus in serum of mRNA-vaccinated individuals receiving tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitors. Med. 2021;2(12):1327-41.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2021.11.004.

Deepak P*, Kim W*, Paley MA*, Yang M, Carvidi AB, Demissie EG, El-Qunni AA, Haile A, Huang K, Kinnett B, Liebeskind MJ, Liu Z, McMorrow LE, Paez D, Pawar N, Perantie DC, Schriefer RE, Sides SE, Thapa M, Gergely M, Abushamma S, Akuse S, Klebert M, Mitchell L, Nix D, Graf J, Taylor KE, Chahin S, Ciorba MA, Katz P, Matloubian M, O'Halloran JA, Presti RM, Wu GF, Whelan SPJ, Buchser WJ, Gensler LS, Nakamura MC, Ellebedy AH, Kim AHJ. Effect of Immunosuppression on the Immunogenicity of mRNA Vaccines to SARS-CoV-2 : A Prospective Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 2021;174(11):1572-85. Epub 20210831. doi: 10.7326/m21-1757. *co-first authors

Turner JS*, O’Halloran JA*, Kalaidina E, Kim W, Schmitz AJ, Zhou JQ, Lei T, Thapa M, Chen RE, Case JB, Amanat F, Rauseo AM, Haile A, Xie X, Klebert MK, Suessen T, Middleton WD, Shi P-Y, Krammer F, Teefey SA, Diamond MS, Presti RM, Ellebedy AH. SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines induce persistent human germinal centre responses. Nature. 2021;596(7870):109-13. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03738-2. *co-first authors

Turner JS, Kim W, Kalaidina E, Goss CW, Rauseo AM, Schmitz AJ, Hansen L, Haile A, Klebert MK, Pusic I, O’Halloran JA, Presti RM, Ellebedy AH. SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans. Nature. 2021;595(7867):421-5. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03647-4.

Chen RE*, Zhang X*, Case JB, Winkler ES, Liu Y, Vanblargan LA, Liu J, Errico JM, Xie X, Suryadevara N, Gilchuk P, Zost SJ, Tahan S, Droit L, Turner JS, Kim W, Schmitz AJ, Thapa M, Wang D, Boon ACM, Presti RM, O’Halloran JA, Kim AHJ, Deepak P, Pinto D, Fremont DH, Crowe JE, Corti D, Virgin HW, Ellebedy AH, Shi P-Y, Diamond MS. Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 variants to neutralization by monoclonal and serum-derived polyclonal antibodies. Nature Medicine. 2021;27(4):717-26. doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01294-w.

Kim W, Kim E, Min H, Kim MG, Eisenbeis VB, Dutta AK, Pavlovic I, Jessen HJ, Kim S, Seong RH. Inositol polyphosphates promote T cell-independent humoral immunity via the regulation of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2019;116(26):12952-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1821552116.

Kim E, Beon J, Lee S, Park SJ, Ahn H, Kim MG, Park JE, Kim W, Yuk J-M, Kang S-J, Lee S-H, Jo E-K, Seong RH, Kim S. Inositol polyphosphate multikinase promotes Toll-like receptor–induced inflammation by stabilizing TRAF6. Science Advances. 2017;3(4):e1602296. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602296.