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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

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Microbiology

D-Index
76
Citations
17426
World Ranking
1450
National Ranking
632

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Brian Stevenson is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on several interconnected fields within the life sciences, such as Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine. These broad areas encompass more specialized subfields including Parasitology, Insect Science, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics investigated by Brian Stevenson reflect a strong emphasis on vector-borne diseases and insect interactions. These topics include:

  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Viral infections and vectors
  • Vector-borne animal diseases
  • Insect and pesticide research
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Stevenson's publication record shows contributions to a variety of scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), which features seven of their papers, followed by the Journal of Bacteriology with four publications. Three papers appeared in the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, two in Infection and Immunity, and one in Trends in Parasitology.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Brian Stevenson include:

  • The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, as a model vector-borne pathogen: insights on regulation of gene and protein expression (2023, Current Opinion in Microbiology)
  • Complement Evasion Contributes to Lyme Borreliae-Host Associations (2020, Trends in Parasitology)
  • Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics (2020, Current Issues in Molecular Biology)
  • Rejection of the name Borreliella and all proposed species comb. nov. placed therein (2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY)
  • Report of the Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology of Lyme Disease Subcommittee of the HHS Tick Borne Disease Working Group (2021, Frontiers in Medicine)

Frequent collaborators include Andrew C. Krusenstjerna and Timothy C. Saylor, each with 11 joint publications. Other notable co-authors are Wolfram R. Zückert, Catherine A. Brissette, and Nerina Jusufovic, each contributing to eight shared publications with Stevenson.

Additionally, Brian Stevenson has contributed to academic publishing beyond journal articles, with at least one known book published by ANU Press titled 'Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives (2023).

Best Publications

  • A bacterial genome in flux: the twelve linear and nine circular extrachromosomal DNAs in an infectious isolate of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Sherwood Casjens;Nanette Palmer;René Van Vugt;Wai Mun Huang

  • Of ticks, mice and men: understanding the dual-host lifestyle of Lyme disease spirochaetes

    Justin D. Radolf;Melissa J. Caimano;Brian Stevenson;Linden T. Hu

  • Key Parameters of Tumor Epitope Immunogenicity Revealed Through a Consortium Approach Improve Neoantigen Prediction

    Daniel K. Wells;Marit M. van Buuren;Kristen K. Dang;Vanessa M. Hubbard-Lucey

  • Exome sequencing identifies recurrent somatic MAP2K1 and MAP2K2 mutations in melanoma

    Sergey Igorievich Nikolaev;Donata Rimoldi;Christian Iseli;Christian Iseli;Armand Valsesia;Armand Valsesia;Armand Valsesia

  • Personalized cancer vaccine effectively mobilizes antitumor T cell immunity in ovarian cancer

    Janos L. Tanyi;Sara Bobisse;Eran Ophir;Sandra Tuyaerts

  • Current Protocols in Microbiology

    Richard Coico;Alison McBride;John M. Quarles;Brian Stevenson

  • Genome-wide analysis of cancer/testis gene expression

    Oliver Hofmann;Oliver Hofmann;Otavia L. Caballero;Brian J. Stevenson;Brian J. Stevenson;Yao Tseng Chen

  • Temperature-related differential expression of antigens in the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi.

    B Stevenson;T G Schwan;P A Rosa

  • Integrated proteogenomic deep sequencing and analytics accurately identify non-canonical peptides in tumor immunopeptidomes.

    Chloe Chong;Chloe Chong;Markus Müller;HuiSong Pak;HuiSong Pak;Dermot Harnett

  • Differential binding of host complement inhibitor factor H by Borrelia burgdorferi Erp surface proteins: a possible mechanism underlying the expansive host range of Lyme disease spirochetes.

    Brian Stevenson;Nazira El-Hage;Melissa A. Hines;Jennifer C. Miller

  • Numerous potentially functional but non-genic conserved sequences on human chromosome 21

    Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis;Alexandre Reymond;Robert Lyle;Nathalie Scamuffa

  • Leptospira interrogans Endostatin-Like Outer Membrane Proteins Bind Host Fibronectin, Laminin and Regulators of Complement

    Brian Stevenson;Henry A. Choy;Henry A. Choy;Marija Pinne;Marija Pinne;Matthew L. Rotondi

  • Efficient targeted mutagenesis in Borrelia burgdorferi.

    James L. Bono;Abdallah F. Elias;John J. Kupko;Brian Stevenson

  • LfhA, a Novel Factor H-Binding Protein of Leptospira interrogans

    Ashutosh Verma;Jens Hellwage;Sergey Artiushin;Peter F. Zipfel

  • Homology throughout the multiple 32-kilobase circular plasmids present in Lyme disease spirochetes.

    S Casjens;R van Vugt;K Tilly;P A Rosa

  • Borrelia burgdorferi Erp Proteins Are Immunogenic in Mammals Infected by Tick Bite, and Their Synthesis Is Inducible in Cultured Bacteria

    Brian Stevenson;James L. Bono;Tom G. Schwan;Patricia Rosa

  • An atlas of human gene expression from massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS)

    C. Victor Jongeneel;Mauro Delorenzi;Christian Iseli;Daixing Zhou

  • Functional characterization of BbCRASP-2, a distinct outer membrane protein of Borrelia burgdorferi that binds host complement regulators factor H and FHL-1.

    Kristina Hartmann;Carsten Corvey;Christine Skerka;Michael Kirschfink

  • Analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi gene expression during life cycle phases of the tick vector Ixodes scapularis.

    Robert D. Gilmore;M.Lamine Mbow;Brian Stevenson

  • A family of genes located on four separate 32-kilobase circular plasmids in Borrelia burgdorferi B31.

    B Stevenson;K Tilly;P A Rosa

Frequent Co-Authors

C. Victor Jongeneel
C. Victor Jongeneel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Kraiczy
Peter Kraiczy Goethe University Frankfurt
Peter F. Zipfel
Peter F. Zipfel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
George Coukos
George Coukos Cornell University
Reinhard Wallich
Reinhard Wallich Heidelberg University
Michal Bassani-Sternberg
Michal Bassani-Sternberg Ludwig Cancer Research
Ioannis Xenarios
Ioannis Xenarios University of Lausanne
Patricia A. Rosa
Patricia A. Rosa National Institutes of Health
Alexandre Harari
Alexandre Harari University of Lausanne
Andrew J.G. Simpson
Andrew J.G. Simpson Ludwig Cancer Research

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