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STRUGGLE

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Statistical physics of immune viral co evolution
The immune system within each individual host destroys viruses, which manage to escape immunity on the global scale. Recent experiments show population-level responses of both immune repertoires and viruses, and a history dependen... The immune system within each individual host destroys viruses, which manage to escape immunity on the global scale. Recent experiments show population-level responses of both immune repertoires and viruses, and a history dependence of their functional phenotypes. This constrained long-term co-evolution of immune receptor and viral populations is a stochastic many-body problem occurring at many scales, in which the response emerges based on the past states of both the repertoire and viral populations. STRUGGLE infers the details of viral-immune receptor interactions from functional datasets to obtain a predictive statistical model of co-evolution between immune repertoires and viruses. STRUGGLE covers the many scales of immune-virus interactions: from the molecular level, analyzing high-throughput mutational screens of libraries of antibodies binding a given antigen, through the population-level response of immune repertoires, analyzing next-generation sequencing of vaccine-stimulated whole repertoires, to the population level, modeling the long term co-evolution of both repertoires and viruses. STRUGGLE combines a statistical data analysis approach with cross-scale many-body physics to: - build a molecular model for antigen-receptor binding; - learn statistical models for repertoire-level response to viral antigen stimulation; - validate dynamical models of interactions between antigen and immune receptors; - theoretically evaluate the predictive power of the immune system and viruses; - and predict virus strains and immune responses based on past infections. The outcomes of STRUGGLE include the quantitative characterization of the human T-cell response to flu vaccines, with implications for vaccination strategies, and the trout B-cell response to life-threatening rhabdoviruses, which aids vaccine design for fish, with wide use in agriculture. The statistical properties of the co-evolutionary process are needed for informed development of immunotherapies. ver más
31/10/2023
CNRS
2M€
Perfil tecnológico estimado
Duración del proyecto: 81 meses Fecha Inicio: 2017-01-26
Fecha Fin: 2023-10-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2023-10-31
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
ERC-2016-COG: ERC Consolidator Grant
Cerrada hace 8 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 2M€
Líder del proyecto
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE... No se ha especificado una descripción o un objeto social para esta compañía.
Perfil tecnológico TRL 4-5