Kevin Ng
@KevinWNg
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@SchmidtFellows postdoc in @Victora_Lab | B cells, vaccines, and cancer | 🏳️🌈 He/him
New York, USA
Joined December 2011
just when you thought academic CVs couldn’t get any more competitive.
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My beloved ELISA wash bottle is absolutely going into my thesis acknowledgements
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Really excited to see this paper out! A pan-coronavirus vaccine could be our way out of this and future pandemics, and @nikifaulkner and I think that a S2-based vaccine could do just that.
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Our paper on cross-reactive coronavirus antibodies - rare in adults, but more common in children - is now published in @ScienceMagazine!
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Excited to be starting as a @CancerResearch Fellow later this year, studying germinal centre B cells in colorectal cancer
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Our latest preprint is now out! We were surprised that antibodies specific for common cold coronaviruses were capable of binding and neutralising (at least in vitro) conserved epitopes from SARS-CoV-2:
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no! more! qPCRs! ✊🏼.
Today I introduced a bill to ban all messenger ribonucleic acid technology (mRNA) in the State of Idaho, and we passed the Freedom in Education Savings Account out of the Senate Education Committee to fund students and not systems, putting families in control over their ed $.
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When I was in my PhD program I went to parties every week and I did just fine 💁♀️.
When I was in my PhD program I didn’t go to any parties except one, where a bunch of the other students cornered me, drunk, to ask what I was doing that I was getting some success, as if it wasn’t just from writing instead of going to parties and watching too much tv.
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Happy Pride! I’m Kevin (he/him), currently doing a postdoc in immunology at Rockefeller University. I’m also a semi-retired violinist, and am a part-time classical music critic 🎼
Yearly Pride Month call out for science twitter! Reply with the following information:.- Name and Pronouns.- Field.- A picture of yourself .- Hobbies outside of science.- A random Fact about yourself .Follow each other and find new interesting people and tag others!.
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Our work describing a novel interferon-inducible ACE2 transcript is now out in @NatureGenet!
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experiment of the year.
Then we repeated the experiment, but we dehydrated the tissue first. The architecture was fine. We left it at room temperature for a year. Still fine. Ran over it with a car, had a former Astros starting pitcher throw a fastball at it, fired a shotgun at it. Still fine. (15/18)
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What determines how children respond to the common cold? In our new paper in @MedCellPress, we study antibody responses in children to common cold coronaviruses:.
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The joys of British cuisine - fried potatoes with a side of fried potatoes
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Excited to share our latest preprint, in which @nikifaulkner and I explore S2 immunization as a pan-coronavirus vaccine approach.
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An updated version of our manuscript on antibody cross-reactivity between seasonal coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 is now online:
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when i try and fold a fitted sheet.
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(like honestly, fuck this idea that 24/7 work in grad school is a good thing).
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Had a great time presenting some of our recent findings on B cell responses in lung cancer. Stay tuned for the preprint coming very soon!
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no! no! no you can't!.
"Although scientists don’t quite understand why, kids seem to be naturally protected. As a result, you can think of your son or daughter as an already vaccinated grandparent," @ProfEmilyOster writes:
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@Point_Mutation We add a pipette tip to our SDS loading buffer, just because nobody can remember a time there hasn't been a pipette tip in there.
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So in 2022 I get to play my absolute dream concerto with orchestra and I can’t wait 🍾
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Thrilled to have contributed to such a cool study - the SARS-CoV-2 spike recruits biliverdin to evade binding of monoclonal and polyclonal sera
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who among us does not have an X chromosome and melatonin.
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Another day, another preprint! Our work on interferons and a novel isoform of ACE2 is now online:
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Excited to share our data on antibody cross-reactivity to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, comparing D614G and B.1.1.7 convalescent sera
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10 days to thesis submission, and I’ve proofread it so many times none of my figures mean anything anymore.
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putting “coronavirus antibody researcher” on my cv asap.
📝 @nikifaulkner and @KevinWNg have used a test they developed to show that some antibodies that match up with the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein aren’t just found in #COVID19 patients, and might also be found in people who have had certain colds in the past.
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we are all juanita.
Anyone else already giving up on their New Year's resolutions? In case you aren't sure what you're looking at, Juanita the armadillo is napping in her exercise wheel.
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When your dad is a "leading academic data leader" but you still don't know how to use Excel properly.
Dr. Raymond Ng, Director of @UBC #DataScience Institute and Professor of @UBC_CS named to @magazine_cdo 2022 list of leading academic data leaders! Congrats Dr. Ng!.
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Cost so far for my 6-month visa extension:. £494 application fee.£121 NHS fee.£125 scheduling fee for a mandatory in-person appointment.£51 to “scan my documents”. Will we break the £1000 mark?.
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The true spirit of Christmas.
A possum broke into an Australian bakery and ate so many pastries it couldn't move. This is how they found him.
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How I tell myself I’ll spend my flight:.How I’ll actually spend my flight:
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Our latest preprint on antibody responses to endemic coronaviruses in children is now out!
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Easily the coolest coronavirus-related finding I've had the chance to be involved in!.
.@TheCrick, @KCLImmunoMicro, @UCLInfectImm scientists have identified another potential target for neutralizing antibodies on the #SARSCoV2 Spike protein that is masked by metabolites in the blood. New in @ScienceAdvances: #COVID19
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Some nice coverage of our paper from the @BBC!.
Million-year-old viruses help fight cancer, say scientists
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As biologists, we all have an obligation to counter the misuse of biology in the name of transphobia.
@CellCellPress It includes a Commentary from 24 transgender (and/or family of trans) scientists discussing the experiences of sex and gender minorities in STEMM and offering actions to help build a more inclusive academia and produce more accurate and rigorous science:
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Contrary to what this image may suggest, I studied neither smart nor hard during my undergrad. 😬.
Want to study smarter, not harder for finals this term?. Read on for study strategies—based in neuroscience research—from a @UBCPsych prof:
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After spending most of my life on the flow cytometer, it's lovely to actually see my cells!
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