Anne von Gottberg

The paper identifies invasion-associated genetic variants in pneumococcal lineages by separating serotype and lineage effects, highlighting candidate determinants for experimental investigation.

The paper models how delayed immune responses and prolonged infections increase the transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants with fitness-enhancing mutations.

This paper identifies a host-derived signal that induces rapid, tissue-specific capsule thickening in Streptococcus pneumoniae, independent of phase variation, and shows two genetic determinants involved in this process.

This study shows that advanced HIV infection leads to high intra-host SARS-CoV-2 spike diversity and adaptive evolution, potentially contributing to new variants of concern.

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary histories of antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal lineages PMEN3 and PMEN9, showing how interspecies recombination contributes to antibiotic resistance and serotype switching.

The paper uses genome-wide association studies to show human and pneumococcal genetic variation influences susceptibility and severity of pneumococcal meningitis.