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Benjamin R. tenOever is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focused on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work notably addresses infectious diseases, molecular biology, immunology, neurology, and epidemiology. Key topics explored include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, long-term effects of COVID-19, interferon and immune responses, CRISPR and genetic engineering, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and phagocytosis and immune regulation.

Benjamin R. tenOever has published extensively, with contributions to journals and platforms such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Virology, Cell, and Cell Stem Cell. They have authored 29 papers in bioRxiv, 7 in SSRN Electronic Journal, 6 in Journal of Virology, 5 in Cell, and 3 in Cell Stem Cell.

Frequent coauthors include Robert E. Schwartz, Skyler Uhl, Yaron Bram, Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant, and Daisy A. Hoagland.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Imbalanced Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Drives Development of COVID-19, 2020, Cell
  • The Global Phosphorylation Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, 2020, Cell
  • A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids, 2020, Cell Stem Cell
  • Identification of Required Host Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Human Cells, 2020, Cell
  • Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors using lung and colonic organoids, 2020, Nature

Best Publications

  • Imbalanced Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Drives Development of COVID-19.

    Daniel Blanco-Melo;Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant;Wen Chun Liu;Skyler Uhl

  • Triggering the Interferon Antiviral Response Through an IKK-Related Pathway

    Sonia Sharma;Benjamin R. tenOever;Nathalie Grandvaux;Guo-Ping Zhou

  • The Global Phosphorylation Landscape of SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

    Mehdi Bouhaddou;Danish Memon;Bjoern Meyer;Kris M. White

  • VSV strains with defects in their ability to shutdown innate immunity are potent systemic anti-cancer agents

    David F Stojdl;Brian D Lichty;Benjamin R tenOever;Jennifer M Paterson

  • A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids.

    Liuliu Yang;Yuling Han;Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant;Vikas Gupta

  • Identification of Required Host Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Human Cells.

    Zharko Daniloski;Tristan X. Jordan;Hans-Hermann Wessels;Daisy A. Hoagland

  • Transcriptional profiling of interferon regulatory factor 3 target genes: direct involvement in the regulation of interferon-stimulated genes.

    Nathalie Grandvaux;Marc J. Servant;Benjamin tenOever;Ganes C. Sen

  • Identification of SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors using lung and colonic organoids.

    Yuling Han;Xiaohua Duan;Xiaohua Duan;Liuliu Yang;Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant

  • Multiple Functions of the IKK-Related Kinase IKKε in Interferon-Mediated Antiviral Immunity

    Benjamin R. tenOever;Sze-Ling Ng;Mark A. Chua;Sarah M. McWhirter

  • DAI Senses Influenza A Virus Genomic RNA and Activates RIPK3-Dependent Cell Death

    Roshan J. Thapa;Justin P. Ingram;Katherine B. Ragan;Shoko Nogusa

  • A human-airway-on-a-chip for the rapid identification of candidate antiviral therapeutics and prophylactics.

    Longlong Si;Haiqing Bai;Melissa Rodas;Wuji Cao

  • The interferon antiviral response: from viral invasion to evasion.

    Nathalie Grandvaux;Benjamin R tenOever;Marc J Servant;John Hiscott

  • Influenza A virus-generated small RNAs regulate the switch from transcription to replication

    Jasmine T. Perez;Andrew Varble;Ravi Sachidanandam;Ivan Zlatev

  • Identification of the Minimal Phosphoacceptor Site Required for in Vivo Activation of Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 in Response to Virus and Double-stranded RNA

    Marc J. Servant;Nathalie Grandvaux;Benjamin R. tenOever;Delphine Duguay

  • Genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 Screen Identifies Host Factors Essential for Influenza Virus Replication

    Julianna Han;Jasmine T. Perez;Cindy Chen;Yan Li

  • The Spike D614G mutation increases SARS-CoV-2 infection of multiple human cell types.

    Zharko Daniloski;Tristan X Jordan;Juliana K Ilmain;Xinyi Guo

  • Influenza A Virus Transmission Bottlenecks Are Defined by Infection Route and Recipient Host

    Andrew Varble;Randy A. Albrecht;Simone Backes;Marshall Crumiller

  • Activation of TBK1 and IKKε Kinases by Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Infection and the Role of Viral Ribonucleoprotein in the Development of Interferon Antiviral Immunity

    Benjamin R. tenOever;Sonia Sharma;Wen Zou;Qiang Sun

  • Recognition of the Measles Virus Nucleocapsid as a Mechanism of IRF-3 Activation

    Benjamin R. tenOever;Marc J. Servant;Nathalie Grandvaux;Rongtuan Lin

  • Leveraging the antiviral type I interferon system as a first line of defense against SARS-CoV-2 pathogenicity.

    Daisy A. Hoagland;Rasmus Møller;Skyler A. Uhl;Kohei Oishi

  • RNA viruses and the host microRNA machinery

    Benjamin R. tenOever

Frequent Co-Authors

Adolfo García-Sastre
Adolfo García-Sastre Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David H. Sachs
David H. Sachs Columbia University
John Hiscott
John Hiscott Istituto Pasteur
Robert E. Schwartz
Robert E. Schwartz Cornell University
Shuibing Chen
Shuibing Chen Cornell University
Todd Evans
Todd Evans Cornell University
Randy A. Albrecht
Randy A. Albrecht Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jean K. Lim
Jean K. Lim Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
David D. Ho
David D. Ho Columbia University
Rongtuan Lin
Rongtuan Lin McGill University

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