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Date
2020-05-01 16:32
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen
Topics
Furin cleavage site and molecular features

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I also had a pretty heated discussion with him on one of the WH committee calls where I mentioned that the RBD would probably lead to high affinity binding and the furin site being active. He essentially said that was all bullshit and I couldn't possibly know... Well.

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I also had a pretty heated discussion with him on one of the WH committee calls where I mentioned that the RBD would probably lead to high affinity binding and the furin site being active. needs context uncertain explicit hedge asserts

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  1. 2020-05-01 16:28 Edward C. Holmes open
    Oh, I'm impressed/jealous - seems you have decent bollocks wall in place. I have to deal with all bollocks myself.
  2. 2020-05-01 16:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, firewalls and bollockswalls were needed pretty quickly. Still need the wall though. Or not.
  3. 2020-05-01 16:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Baric's paper IS really strange - I think he's just miffed because a bunch of amateurs came walking all over his turf.
  4. 2020-05-01 16:31 Edward C. Holmes open
    Exactly how I read it.
  5. 2020-05-01 16:32 Kristian G. Andersen
    I also had a pretty heated discussion with him on one of the WH committee calls where I mentioned that the RBD would probably lead to high affinity binding and the furin site being active. He essentially said that was all bullshit and I couldn't possibly know... Well.
  6. 2020-05-01 16:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    [this was early January]
  7. 2020-05-01 16:33 Edward C. Holmes open
    We actually did him a MASSIVE favour in writing that article. He would be really in the cross-hairs without it.
  8. 2020-05-01 16:34 Kristian G. Andersen open
    No shit. In fact, one of his co-authors on the 2015 paper emailed me yesterday thanking us for the paper. He's just agrump - you know the type.
  9. 2020-05-01 16:34 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, I know the type.

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