
William Schief, PhD
Scripps Research Joint Appointments
Other Joint Appointments
The Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard (Associate Member)IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center, The Scripps Research Institute
Education
Ph.D. (Physics), University of Washington, 1999B.S. (Applied Mathematics), Yale University, 1989
Professional Experience
2011-2014 Associate Professor of Immunology, Immunology and Microbial Science (IMS), Scripps ResearchSelected References
Antanasijevic, A., Bowman, C. A., Kirchdoerfer, R. N., Cottrell, C. A., Ozorowski, G., Upadhyay, A. A., Cirelli, K. M., Carnathan, D. G., Enemuo, C. A., Sewall, L. M., Nogal, B., Zhao, F., et al. From structure to sequence: Antibody discovery using cryoEM. (2022). Science Advances, 8. PMCID: PMC8769551.
Lee, J. H., Toy, L., Kos, J. T., Safonova, Y., Schief, W. R., Havenar-Daughton, C., Watson, C. T. & Crotty, S. Vaccine genetics of IGHV1-2 VRC01-class broadly neutralizing antibody precursor naive human B cells. (2021). NPJ Vaccines, 6. PMCID: PMC8421370.
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Schoeder, C. T., Schmitz, S., Adolf-Bryfogle, J., Sevy, A. M., Finn, J. A., Sauer, M. F., Bozhanova, N. G., Mueller, B. K., Sangha, A. K., Bonet, J., Sheehan, J. H., Kuenze, G., et al. Modeling Immunity with Rosetta: Methods for Antibody and Antigen Design. (2021). Biochemistry, 60(11), 825-846. PMCID: PMC7992133.
Lee, J. H., Hu, J. K., Georgeson, E., Nakao, C., Groschel, B., Dileepan, T., Jenkins, M. K., Seumois, G., Vijayanand, P., Schief, W. R. & Crotty, S. Modulating the quantity of HIV Env-specific CD4 T cell help promotes rare B cell responses in germinal centers. (2021). Journal of Experimental Medicine, 218. PMCID: PMC7769167.
Silva, M., Kato, Y., Melo, M. B., Phung, I., Freeman, B. L., Li, Z. M., Roh, K., Van Wijnbergen, J. W., Watkins, H., Enemuo, C. A., Hartwell, B. L., Chang, J. Y. H., et al. A particulate saponin/TLR agonist vaccine adjuvant alters lymph flow and modulates adaptive immunity. (2021). Science Immunology, 6. PMCID: PMC8763571.
Baboo, S., Diedrich, J. K., Martinez-Bartolome, S., Wang, X. N., Schiffner, T., Groschel, B., Schief, W. R., Paulson, J. C. & Yates III, J. R. DeGlyPHER: An Ultrasensitive Method for the Analysis of Viral Spike N-Glycoforms. (2021). Analytical Chemistry, 93(40), 13651-13657.
Leman, J. K., Lyskov, S., Lewis, S. M., Adolf-Bryfogle, J., Alford, R. F., Barlow, K., Ben-Aharon, Z., Farrell, D., Fell, J., Hansen, W. A., Harmalkar, A., Jeliazkov, J., et al. Ensuring scientific reproducibility in bio-macromolecular modeling via extensive, automated benchmarks. (2021). Nature Communications, 12. PMCID: PMC8630030.
Wang, X. S., Ray, R., Kratochvil, S., Melzi, E., Lin, Y. C., Giguere, S., Xu, L. L., Warner, J., Cheon, D., Liguori, A., Groschel, B., Phelps, N., et al. Multiplexed CRISPR/CAS9-mediated engineering of pre-clinical mouse models bearing native human B cell receptors. (2020). EMBO Journal, 40. PMCID: PMC7809789.