Shanelle Reilly, PhD
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Shanelle Reilly, PhD
@shanellereilly.bsky.social
Postdoctoral research fellow in the Brossay Lab @BrownUniversity studying non classical T cells and their response to CMV | she/her
Check out my recent publication in Science Advances! Our work uncovered a conserved and functionally important CD8+ T cell axis mediated by Qa-1/HLA-E, and presents previously unidentified opportunities for vaccine development.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Unconventional CD8+ T cell surveillance of cytomegalovirus via Qa-1/HLA-E–restricted epitope recognition
A recently identified group of CD8+ T cells helps fight cytomegalovirus using a conserved immune recognition pathway.
www.science.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Check out this article published in @J_Immunol by my lab mate Miles Mundy, PhD: Lung NK cells are sufficient to control viral dissemination during respiratory MCMV infection academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art...
Lung NK cells are sufficient to control viral dissemination during respiratory MCMV infection
Abstract. Murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV) respiratory dissemination schemes, which mimic natural infection routes, have only recently become an area of inves
academic.oup.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM