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Bianca Blom is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of immunology and microbiology, with a significant emphasis on medicine. Over their career, they have contributed to 30 publications in immunology and microbiology and 17 in medicine.

Their subfields of study include immunology, hematology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, and genetics. The main areas of research addressed in their work are:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Bianca Blom has published papers in various venues, including:

  • Cytotherapy
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
  • Science Translational Medicine
  • Gut Microbes

Some of their recent publications are:

  • "Donor fecal microbiota transplantation ameliorates intestinal graft-versus-host disease in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients" (2020, Science Translational Medicine)
  • "Endothelium-derived stromal cells contribute to hematopoietic bone marrow niche formation" (2021, Cell Stem Cell)
  • "GPA33: A Marker to Identify Stable Human Regulatory T Cells" (2020, The Journal of Immunology)
  • "Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, the microbiome, and graft-versus-host disease" (2023, Gut Microbes)
  • "Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Discrete Steps in Regulatory T Cell Development in the Human Thymus" (2021, The Journal of Immunology)

Their frequent collaborators include:

  • Mette D. Hazenberg (10 coauthored publications)
  • Nienke J.E. Haverkate (7 coauthored publications)
  • Carlijn Voermans (6 coauthored publications)
  • Yannouck F. van Lier (4 coauthored publications)
  • Sacha Zeerleder (4 coauthored publications)

Best Publications

  • Novel p19 protein engages IL-12p40 to form a cytokine, IL-23, with biological activities similar as well as distinct from IL-12.

    Birgit Oppmann;Robin Lesley;Bianca Blom;Jackie C. Timans

  • Down-Regulation of the Macrophage Lineage Through Interaction with OX2 (CD200)

    Robert M. Hoek;Sigrid R. Ruuls;Craig A. Murphy;Gavin J. Wright

  • The Transcription Factor GATA3 Is Essential for the Function of Human Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells

    Jenny Mjösberg;Jochem Bernink;Korneliusz Golebski;Julien J. Karrich

  • Interleukin-12 and -23 Control Plasticity of CD127(+) Group 1 and Group 3 Innate Lymphoid Cells in the Intestinal Lamina Propria.

    Jochem H. Bernink;Lisette Krabbendam;Kristine Germar;Esther de Jong

  • DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN LYMPHOID CELLS

    Bianca Blom;Hergen Spits

  • Inhibition of T Cell and Promotion of Natural Killer Cell Development by the Dominant Negative Helix Loop Helix Factor Id3

    Mirjam H.M. Heemskerk;Bianca Blom;Garry Nolan;Alexander P.A. Stegmann

  • DAP12-Deficient Mice Fail to Develop Autoimmunity Due to Impaired Antigen Priming

    Alexander B.H. Bakker;Robert M. Hoek;Adelheid Cerwenka;Bianca Blom

  • Generation of Interferon α–Producing Predendritic Cell (Pre-Dc)2 from Human Cd34+ Hematopoietic Stem Cells

    Bianca Blom;Stephen Ho;Svetlana Antonenko;Yong-Jun Liu

  • From interleukin-23 to T-helper 17 cells: human T-helper cell differentiation revisited

    Katia Boniface;Bianca Blom;Yong-Jun Liu;René de Waal Malefyt

  • The ETS Transcription Factor Spi-B Is Required for Human Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Development

    Remko Schotte;Maho Nagasawa;Kees Weijer;Kees Weijer;Hergen Spits

  • Monitoring the effect of gene silencing by RNA interference in human CD34+ cells injected into newborn RAG2-/- gammac-/- mice: functional inactivation of p53 in developing T cells.

    Ramon Gimeno;Kees Weijer;Arie Voordouw;Christel H. Uittenbogaart

  • STAT5 regulates the self-renewal capacity and differentiation of human memory B cells and controls Bcl-6 expression.

    Ferenc A Scheeren;Marianne Naspetti;Sean Diehl;Remko Schotte;Remko Schotte

  • Early stages in the development of human T, natural killer and thymic dendritic cells

    H. Spits;B. Blom;A.-C. Jaleco;K. Weijer

  • Development and activation of regulatory T cells in the human fetus.

    Tom Cupedo;Maho Nagasawa;Kees Weijer;Bianca Blom

  • Activated innate lymphoid cells are associated with a reduced susceptibility to graft-versus-host disease.

    J. Marius Munneke;Andreas T. Björklund;Jenny M. Mjösberg;Karin Garming-Legert

  • TCR Gene Rearrangements and Expression of the Pre-T Cell Receptor Complex During Human T-Cell Differentiation

    B. Blom;M. C. M. Verschuren;M. C. M. Verschuren;M. H. M. Heemskerk;M. H. M. Heemskerk;A. Q. Bakker;A. Q. Bakker

  • Development of human plasmacytoid dendritic cells depends on the combined action of the basic helix‐loop‐helix factor E2‐2 and the Ets factor Spi‐B

    Maho Nagasawa;Heike Schmidlin;Mark G. Hazekamp;Remko Schotte

  • Thrombopoietin cooperates with FLT3-ligand in the generation of plasmacytoid dendritic cell precursors from human hematopoietic progenitors

    Wei Chen;Svetlana Antonenko;Joel M. Sederstrom;Xueqing Liang

  • IL-21 is expressed in Hodgkin lymphoma and activates STAT5: evidence that activated STAT5 is required for Hodgkin lymphomagenesis.

    Ferenc A. Scheeren;Sean A. Diehl;Laura A. Smit;Tim Beaumont

  • New insights into the regulation of human B-cell differentiation

    Heike Schmidlin;Sean A. Diehl;Sean A. Diehl;Bianca Blom

Frequent Co-Authors

Hergen Spits
Hergen Spits University of Amsterdam
Sekhar P. Reddy
Sekhar P. Reddy University of Illinois at Chicago
Kathleen J. Millen
Kathleen J. Millen Seattle Children's Hospital
Robert F. Hevner
Robert F. Hevner University of California, San Diego
Paola Bovolenta
Paola Bovolenta Spanish National Research Council
Bruce E. Torbett
Bruce E. Torbett Seattle Children's Hospital
Elizabeth M. Simpson
Elizabeth M. Simpson University of British Columbia
Wyeth W. Wasserman
Wyeth W. Wasserman University of British Columbia
Reiner A. Veitia
Reiner A. Veitia Université Paris Cité
Peggy J. Farnham
Peggy J. Farnham University of Southern California

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