Predoctoral Fellow
Education:
Ph.D., 2022, George Washington University
B.S., University of Tennessee
Biography
Jakob Samsel’s research focuses on antibody responses to HIV/SHIV in rhesus macaque models. He optimized and characterized a method of macaque B cell immortalization for antibody discovery and applied that technology to characterize neutralizing antibody responses in SHIV infected animals. He has also isolated antibodies from animals vaccinated with a germline-bNAb-targeting vaccine, GT1.1, to better understand how vaccine prime immunogens may stimulate antibody lineages with the potential to become broadly neutralizing.