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Jason McLellan

@mclellanlab.bsky.social

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Structural virology / Structure-based vaccine design mclellanlab.org Professor of Molecular Biosciences The University of Texas at Austin Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer

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Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · 16m

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Thanks Michael!

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Thanks Marija! Drinks on me in Freiburg!

Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks Alex! The work we do really is soo collaborative.

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Thanks Ryan!

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Thanks Mike!

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Thank you, Edward!

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Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · 12h

I'm honored to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. As always, I extend my sincerest thanks to all my wonderful mentors, colleagues, collaborators, admins, and trainees who make this work possible. #MacFellow

Texas Science @texasscience.bsky.social · 14h

UT Austin has a new “genius grant” recipient!

Texas Science professor Jason McLellan has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship — aka the “genius grant” — by The MacArthur Foundation.

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cns.utexas.edu/news/accolad...

Virus Slayer Awarded ‘Genius Grant’ by MacArthur Foundation

The award recognizes Jason McLellan’s work to investigate how viruses infect our cells and to develop new treatments for infectious disease.

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Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Wow, congratulations Jamie!!

Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks Brian!

Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

In addition, 7/8 antibodies targeting MPXV cross-reacted with VARV (smallpox) OPG153. We mapped 3 epitopes on OPG153 by cryo-EM and showed that immunization with the globular domain of OPG153 can elicit significantly higher nAb titers than MVA-BN against VACV and MPXV. doi.org/10.1101/2025....

Jason McLellan @mclellanlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our preprint, in collaboration with Rino Rappuoli & Emanuele Andreano, is out! Co-led by colleagues at TLS, my grad student Ling Zhou @lingzhou.bsky.social, and postdoc Emily Rundlet @cryoemily.bsky.social, we identified OPG153 as a poxvirus bnAb target via B cell isolation & AlphaFold3 prediction.

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