Abigail M Jackson

Abigail M Jackson

PhD Student in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics

Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

I am a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, studying Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (bioengineering concentration). I am currently working with Alex Balazs and Debora Marks on questions surrounding HIV viral evolution. It is my hope that this research will inform future HIV vaccine and therapeutic design.

Interests
  • Viral Evolution
  • Vaccines and Gene Therapy
  • Predictive Machine Learning
Education

  • B.S. in Computational Neuroscience, B.A. in Philosophy, 2020

    University of Southern California

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
PhD Student
Alejandro Balazs Lab, The Ragon Institute of MGH, Harvard, and MIT
July 2023 – Present Cambridge, MA
 
 
 
 
 
PhD Student
Debora Marks Lab, Harvard Medical School
December 2023 – Present Boston, MA
 
 
 
 
 
Research Technician, Andrew Ward Lab
The Scripps Research Institute
August 2020 – August 2022 La Jolla, CA
 
 
 
 
 
Laboratory Intern
Lonza Biologics
May 2018 – August 2019 Portsmouth, NH

Recent Publications

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Yuhe R Yang, Julianna Han, Hailee R Perrett, Sara T Richey, Abigail M Jackson, Alesandra J Rodriguez, Rebecca A Gillespie, Sarah O'Connell, Julie E Raab, Lauren Y Cominsky, others (2023). Immune memory shapes human polyclonal antibody responses to H2N2 vaccination. bioRxiv.

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Alba Torrents de la Peña, Leigh M Sewall, Rebeca de Paiva Froes Rocha, Abigail M Jackson, Payal P Pratap, Sandhya Bangaru, Christopher A Cottrell, Subhasis Mohanty, Albert C Shaw, Andrew B Ward (2023). Increasing sensitivity of antibody-antigen interactions using photo-cross-linking. Cell Reports Methods.

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Hannah L Turner, Abigail M Jackson, Sara T Richey, Leigh M Sewall, Aleksandar Antanasijevic, Lars Hangartner, Andrew B Ward (2023). Protocol for analyzing antibody responses to glycoprotein antigens using electron-microscopy-based polyclonal epitope mapping. STAR Protocols.

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Ruiqi Huang, Gabrielle Warner Jenkins, Yunjeong Kim, Robyn L Stanfield, Amrinder Singh, Maria Martinez-Yamout, Gerard J Kroon, Jonathan L Torres, Abigail M Jackson, Abigail Kelley, others (2023). The smallest functional antibody fragment: Ultralong CDR H3 antibody knob regions potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Jeroen MJ Tas, Ja-Hyun Koo, Ying-Cing Lin, Zhenfei Xie, Jon M Steichen, Abigail M Jackson, Blake M Hauser, Xuesong Wang, Christopher A Cottrell, Jonathan L Torres, others (2022). Antibodies from primary humoral responses modulate the recruitment of naive B cells during secondary responses. Immunity.

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