Yuliya Petrova, PhD
For 20 years I have studied B and T cell immune responses to protein and DNA-derived antigens in a context of vaccine development and, more broadly, to understand immune system regulation and interactions with other major systems in the body such as blood coagulation cascade or nervous system.
I have a great interest and experience in infectious disease studies and especially in virology. My special interest is viral and other pathogen antigen structural analysis and the relationship of the quality of the immune response with structural modifications of the antigens.
I used cutting-edge yeast display technology to study B cell immune responses in a context of vaccine development and therapeutic antibody research for HIV, Ebola, RSV, hMPV, PIV, Lassa, monkeypox and SARS-Cov2 viruses. Currently, my focus is on HIV vaccine development and assessment of CD4 and CD8 T cell responses.
| Maryam Musayev, Yuliya Petrova, Sarah A.M. Lucas, Alexandrine Derrien-Colemyn, Chen-Hsiang Shen, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, Amy R. Henry, Chaim A. Schramm, Bharat Madan, Sabrina M. Bush, Emily Phung, Richard A. Koup, Peter D. Kwong, Daniel C. Douek, Brandon J. DeKosky, Nancy J. Sullivan, Theodore C. Pierson, Barney S. Graham, John R. Mascola, Nicole A. Doria-Rose, Tracy J. Ruckwardt , John Misasi “Convergent Antibody Responses and Provenance of Plasmablasts Mobilized by Prefusion RSV-F Vaccination”. Submitted to Immunity, manuscript IMMUNITY-D-25-00605, # authors contributed equally. |
Matheus O. de Souza, Danielle R. D. Saunders, Andrew Miller, Ahmed S. Fahad, Morgan R. Timm, Yuliya Petrova, Kimberly A. Dowd, Bharat Madan, Jacy Wolfe, Erica Normandin, Amy R. Henry, Farida Laboune, John Misasi, Túlio M. Lima, Renata G. F. Alvim, Egan M. Sanchez, Katherine E. Burgomaster, Xiaoli Pan, Dana L. Vanlandingham, Stephen Higgs, Daniel C. Douek, Emily E. Coates, Barney S. Graham, John R. Mascola, Theodore C. Pierson, Leda R. Castilho, Richard J. Kuhn, Yan-Jang S. Huang, Brandon J. DeKosky “Potent Monoclonal Antibodies Against Circulating Yellow Fever Virus Strains from Donors Immunized with the 17D Vaccine”. Submitted to American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. |
John Misasi, Brandon Dekosky, Nicole Johnson, Morgan Timm, Yuliya Petrova, Mykhaylo Artamonov, Kendra Leigh, Erica Normandin, Aurelie Ploquin, Lance Girton, Courtney Tucker, Bingchun Zhao, Yaroslav Tysbovsky, Jason McLellan, John Mascola, Nancy Sullivan “Protective antibody response generated by ChAd3 Ebo-MVA-Ebola vaccination” (the manuscript is on a final stage of preparation for submission). |
Teng IT, Nazzari AF, Choe M, Liu T, Oliveira de Souza M, Petrova Y, Tsybovsky Y, Wang S, Zhang B, Artamonov M, Madan B, Huang A, Lopez Acevedo SN, Pan X, Ruckwardt TJ, DeKosky BJ, Mascola JR, Misasi J, Sullivan NJ, Zhou T, Kwong PD. Molecular probes of spike ectodomain and its subdomains for SARS-CoV-2 variants, Alpha through Omicron. PLoS One. 2022 May 24;17(5). |
The Chapter “Mathematics of COVID-19” by Eric P. Choate, Agida G. Manizade, and Yuliya Petrova in the book “The Mathematics of Patterns, Symmetries, and Beauties in Nature”, Editor Bourama Toni, Department of Mathematics Howard University Washington, DC, USA, released by Springer Nature Switzerland AG, December 2021. |
Zhou T, Teng IT, Olia AS, Cerutti G, Gorman J, Nazzari A, Shi W, Tsybovsky Y, Wang L, Wang S, Zhang B, Zhang Y, Katsamba PS, Petrova Y, Banach BB, Fahad AS, Liu L, Lopez Acevedo SN, Madan B, Oliveira de Souza M, Pan X, Wang P, Wolfe JR, Yin M, Ho DD, Phung E, DiPiazza A, Chang LA, Abiona OM, Corbett KS, DeKosky BJ, Graham BS, Mascola JR, Misasi J, Ruckwardt T, Sullivan NJ, Shapiro L, Kwong PD. Structure-Based Design with Tag-Based Purification and In-Process Biotinylation Enable Streamlined Development of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Molecular Probes. Cell Rep. 2020 Oct 27;33(4):108322. |
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Institution Affiliations
HJF Scientist, Cellular Immune Monitoring Core (CIMC) in support of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)