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Eric Engelbrecht, PhD
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M3 MD/PhD student @ ULSOM | Immunogenomics
Website: https://rebrand.ly/Engelbrecht
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We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.

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Intro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab
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December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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New BCR reconstruction tool for scRNA-seq: assembles full heavy & light chains and annotates constant regions. Check it out:
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#scRNAseq #immunology
GATHeR: Graph-based Accurate Tool for Immunoglobulin HEavy- and Light-chain Reconstruction
Recovering full-length, paired B-cell receptor (BCR) sequences from scRNA-seq reads remains difficult, especially in naive and memory B cells where immunoglobulin transcripts are sparse. Current metho...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Ectopic Expansion of Pulmonary Vasculature in Fibrotic Lung Disease and Lung Adenocarcinoma Marked by Proangiogenic COL15A1+ Endothelial Cells - Engelbrecht - 2025 - Pulmonary Circulation - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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June 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Turns out...just like in the antibody heavy chain repertoire, germline variants in the immunoglobulin lambda and kappa loci influence the composition of light chain B cell receptors!
Way to go Eric @e-engelbrecht1.bsky.social !!!!
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Germline polymorphism in the immunoglobulin kappa and lambda loci explain variation in the expressed light chain antibody repertoire
Variation in antibody (Ab) responses contributes to disease outcomes and therapeutic responsiveness, the determinants of which remain incompletely understood. This study demonstrates that polymorphism...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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New preprint from our group in collaboration with the awesome Prof. Ranjan Sen (NIH). We show that IGH polymorphisms establish inter-individual differences in the pro-B antibody repertoire that persist into the naive B cell pool. Oscar L. Rodriguez is killing it! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Human genetic variation shapes the antibody repertoire across B cell development
The peripheral antibody repertoire is shaped by inherited genetic variation and selection during B cell development. However, how the repertoire changes across developmental stages—and the relative im...
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May 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Did you know that human immunoglobulin constant genes are crazy diverse? It's got me thinking...Proud of Uddalok Jana! And grateful for collabs @guryaari.bsky.social @williamlees.bsky.social @ayeletperes.bsky.social @e-engelbrecht1.bsky.social @yscientist.bsky.social
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The human immunoglobulin heavy chain constant gene locus is enriched for large complex structural variants and coding polymorphisms that vary in frequency among human populations
The immunoglobulin heavy chain constant (IGHC) domain of antibodies (Ab) is responsible for a variety of effector functions critical to Ab mediated immunity. In human, this domain is encoded by genes ...
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February 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM