Benjamin Murrell

1) Murrell B, Wertheim JO, Moola S, Weighill T, Scheffler K, Kosakovsky Pond SL. Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection. PLoS Genetics 2012 8;7 e1002764.
Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002764
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002764
Citations: 1947

2) Hanke L, Vidakovics Perez L, Sheward DJ, Das H, Schulte T, Moliner-Morro A, Corcoran M, Achour A, Karlsson Hedestam GB, Hällberg BM✉, Murrell B#✉, McInerney GM#✉. An alpaca nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by blocking receptor interaction. Nature communications 2020 11;1 4420.
#✉ co-senior and co-corresponding.
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18174-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18174-5
Citations: 350

3) Sheward, DJ., Kim, C., Ehling, RA., Pankow, A., Castro Dopico, X., Dyrdak, R., Martin, DP., Reddy, ST., Dillner, J., Karlsson Hedestam, GB., Albert, J., Murrell, B. Neutralisation sensitivity of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) variant: a cross-sectional study. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, (2022).
Link: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00129-3/
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00129-3
Citations: 97. This was the eventual publication for what was initially the first released pseudovirus neutralization data characterizing the degree of immune escape of the Omicron variant (see eg. https://www.scilifelab.se/news/effect-of-neutralizing-antibodies-on-omicron/ or https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03672-3 for popular accounts).