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77
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34721
World Ranking
1790
National Ranking
157

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Brigitta Stockinger is affiliated with The Francis Crick Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses multiple areas in immunology and molecular biology, focusing particularly on immune cell function and interaction, gut microbiota and health, and T-cell and B-cell immunology.

Their work spans these main fields of study:

  • Immunology and Microbiology
  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, Stockinger specializes in several subfields:

  • Immunology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Physiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis

Stockinger has contributed to numerous publications, with frequent venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Science

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Stockinger include:

  • "Preexisting and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans," published in 2020 in Science
  • "AHR in the intestinal microenvironment: safeguarding barrier function," published in 2021 in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
  • "Neuronal programming by microbiota regulates intestinal physiology," published in 2020 in Nature
  • "Regulation of intestinal immunity and tissue repair by enteric glia," published in 2021 in Nature
  • "Pre-existing and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans," published in 2020 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stockinger include:

  • Michael Shapiro
  • Ying Li
  • Nicola Laura Diny
  • Kathleen Shah
  • Emma Wincent

Stockinger has received several honors, including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, awarded in 2013
  • Fellow of The Academy of Medical Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • TGFβ in the context of an inflammatory cytokine milieu supports de novo differentiation of IL-17-Producing T cells

    Marc Veldhoen;Richard J. Hocking;Christopher J. Atkins;Richard M. Locksley

  • Transforming growth factor-beta 'reprograms' the differentiation of T helper 2 cells and promotes an interleukin 9-producing subset

    Marc Veldhoen;Catherine Uyttenhove;Jacques van Snick;Helena Helmby

  • The aryl hydrocarbon receptor links TH17-cell-mediated autoimmunity to environmental toxins.

    Marc Veldhoen;Keiji Hirota;Astrid M. Westendorf;Jan Buer

  • Fate mapping of IL-17-producing T cells in inflammatory responses

    Keiji Hirota;João H Duarte;Marc Veldhoen;Marc Veldhoen;Eve Hornsby

  • Interleukin-17-Producing γδ T Cells Selectively Expand in Response to Pathogen Products and Environmental Signals

    Bruno Martin;Keiji Hirota;Daniel J. Cua;Brigitta Stockinger

  • Differentiation and function of Th17 T cells.

    Brigitta Stockinger;Marc Veldhoen

  • The Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor: Multitasking in the Immune System

    Brigitta Stockinger;Paola Di Meglio;Manolis Gialitakis;João H Duarte

  • Preexisting and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans

    Kevin W. Ng;Nikhil Faulkner;Georgina H. Cornish;Annachiara Rosa

  • IL-10-Secreting Regulatory T Cells Do Not Express Foxp3 but Have Comparable Regulatory Function to Naturally Occurring CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells

    Pedro L. Vieira;Jillian R. Christensen;Sophie Minaee;Emma J. O’Neill

  • Th17 cells transdifferentiate into regulatory T cells during resolution of inflammation

    Nicola Gagliani;Maria Carolina Amezcua Vesely;Andrea Iseppon;Leonie Brockmann

  • Highly purified Th17 cells from BDC2.5NOD mice convert into Th1-like cells in NOD/SCID recipient mice

    David Bending;Hugo De La Peña;Marc Veldhoen;Jenny M. Phillips

  • Effector T cell plasticity: flexibility in the face of changing circumstances

    Kenneth M Murphy;Brigitta Stockinger

  • Natural agonists for aryl hydrocarbon receptor in culture medium are essential for optimal differentiation of Th17 T cells

    Marc Veldhoen;Keiji Hirota;Jillian Christensen;Anne O'Garra

  • An IL-9 fate reporter demonstrates the induction of an innate IL-9 response in lung inflammation

    Christoph Wilhelm;Keiji Hirota;Benjamin Stieglitz;Jacques Van Snick

  • Signals mediated by transforming growth factor-beta initiate autoimmune encephalomyelitis, but chronic inflammation is needed to sustain disease.

    Marc Veldhoen;Richard J Hocking;Richard A Flavell;Brigitta Stockinger

  • Feedback control of AHR signalling regulates intestinal immunity.

    Chris Schiering;Emma Wincent;Amina Metidji;Andrea Iseppon

  • The resolution of inflammation.

    Christopher D. Buckley;Derek W. Gilroy;Charles N. Serhan;Brigitta Stockinger

  • The aryl hydrocarbon receptor in immunity

    Charlotte Esser;Agneta Rannug;Brigitta Stockinger

  • Mechanisms of tolerance induction in major histocompatibility complex class II-restricted T cells specific for a blood-borne self-antigen.

    Tomasz Zal;Ariane Volkmann;Brigitta Stockinger

  • Plasticity of Th17 cells in Peyer's patches is responsible for the induction of T cell-dependent IgA responses.

    Keiji Hirota;Jan-Eric Turner;Matteo Villa;João H Duarte

  • DNA Vaccination: Transfection and Activation of Dendritic Cells as Key Events for Immunity

    Omid Akbari;Naveed Panjwani;Sylvie Garcia;Ricardo Tascon

  • Pre-existing and de novo humoral immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in humans

    Kevin Ng;Nikhil Faulkner;Georgina Cornish;Annachiara Rosa

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Veldhoen
Marc Veldhoen University of Lisbon
George Kassiotis
George Kassiotis The Francis Crick Institute
Harri Lähdesmäki
Harri Lähdesmäki Aalto University
Siegfried Weiss
Siegfried Weiss Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Anne Cooke
Anne Cooke University of Cambridge
Jean Langhorne
Jean Langhorne The Francis Crick Institute
Anne O'Garra
Anne O'Garra The Francis Crick Institute
Ulf Panzer
Ulf Panzer Universität Hamburg
Riitta Lahesmaa
Riitta Lahesmaa Åbo Akademi University
Dimitris Kioussis
Dimitris Kioussis Medical Research Council

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