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National Ranking
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Overview

Carl G. Feng is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research spans several interconnected areas within immunology, microbiology, and medicine, with a particular focus on tuberculosis and immune system functionality.

The main fields of study covered by their work include:

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

Within these broad fields, subfields of specialization include:

  • Immunology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Molecular Biology
  • Epidemiology
  • Oncology

The primary topics addressed in their research are:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Immune responses and vaccinations

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Single-cell transcriptomics of blood reveals a natural killer cell subset depletion in tuberculosis," 2020, EBioMedicine
  • "Regulation of T Helper Cell Fate by TCR Signal Strength," 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "A single dose, BCG-adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine provides sterilising immunity against SARS-CoV-2 infection," 2021, npj Vaccines
  • "Mucosal delivery of a multistage subunit vaccine promotes development of lung-resident memory T cells and affords interleukin-17-dependent protection against pulmonary tuberculosis," 2020, npj Vaccines
  • "Spatial mapping reveals granuloma diversity and histopathological superstructure in human tuberculosis," 2023, The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research efforts include:

  • Xinchun Chen
  • Warwick J. Britton
  • Yi Cai
  • Nayan D. Bhattacharyya
  • Claudio Counoupas

Most of their work has been published in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • EBioMedicine
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • npj Vaccines

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • A Critical Role for IL-21 in Regulating Immunoglobulin Production

    Katsutoshi Ozaki;Rosanne Spolski;Carl G. Feng;Chen-Feng Qi

  • TLR9 regulates Th1 responses and cooperates with TLR2 in mediating optimal resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    André Báfica;Charles A Scanga;Carl G. Feng;Cynthia Leifer

  • Conventional T-bet(+)Foxp3(-) Th1 cells are the major source of host-protective regulatory IL-10 during intracellular protozoan infection.

    Dragana Jankovic;Marika C. Kullberg;Carl G. Feng;Romina S. Goldszmid

  • IL-23 plays a key role in Helicobacter hepaticus-induced T cell-dependent colitis

    Marika C. Kullberg;Dragana Jankovic;Carl G. Feng;Sophie Hue

  • Innate and adaptive interferons suppress IL-1α and IL-1β production by distinct pulmonary myeloid subsets during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

    Katrin D. Mayer-Barber;Bruno B. Andrade;Daniel L. Barber;Sara Hieny

  • Differential Protective Efficacy of DNA Vaccines Expressing Secreted Proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Arun T. Kamath;Carl G. Feng;Murdo Macdonald;Helen Briscoe;Helen Briscoe

  • Macrophage and T Cell Dynamics During the Development and Disintegration of Mycobacterial Granulomas

    Jackson G. Egen;Antonio Gigliotti Rothfuchs;Carl G. Feng;Nathalie Winter

  • The major component in schistosome eggs responsible for conditioning dendritic cells for Th2 polarization is a T2 ribonuclease (omega-1)

    Svenja Steinfelder;John F. Andersen;Jennifer L. Cannons;Carl G. Feng

  • P47 GTPASES: REGULATORS OF IMMUNITY TO INTRACELLULAR PATHOGENS

    Gregory A. Taylor;Carl G. Feng;Alan Sher

  • CD4 T Cells Promote Rather Than Control Tuberculosis in the Absence of PD-1-mediated Inhibition

    Daniel L. Barber;Katrin D. Mayer-Barber;Carl G. Feng;Arlene H. Sharpe

  • Intranasal Poly-IC treatment exacerbates tuberculosis in mice through the pulmonary recruitment of a pathogen-permissive monocyte/macrophage population

    Lis R.V. Antonelli;Antonio Gigliotti Rothfuchs;Ricardo Gonçalves;Ester Roffê

  • NK Cell-Derived IFN-γ Differentially Regulates Innate Resistance and Neutrophil Response in T Cell-Deficient Hosts Infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Carl G. Feng;Mallika Kaviratne;Antonio Gigliotti Rothfuchs;Allen Cheever

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis Triggers Host Type I IFN Signaling To Regulate IL-1β Production in Human Macrophages

    Aleksey Novikov;Marco Cardone;Robert Thompson;Kevin Shenderov

  • Intravital Imaging Reveals Limited Antigen Presentation and T Cell Effector Function in Mycobacterial Granulomas

    Jackson G. Egen;Antonio Gigliotti Rothfuchs;Carl G. Feng;Marcus A. Horwitz

  • Mice lacking myeloid differentiation factor 88 display profound defects in host resistance and immune responses to Mycobacterium avium infection not exhibited by toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2)- and TLR4-deficient animals

    Carl G. Feng;Charles A. Scanga;Carmen M. Collazo-Custodio;Allen W. Cheever

  • Interleukin-5 (IL-5) Augments the Progression of Liver Fibrosis by Regulating IL-13 Activity

    Rachael M. Reiman;Robert W. Thompson;Carl G. Feng;Danielle Hari

  • Dectin-1 Interaction with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Leads to Enhanced IL-12p40 Production by Splenic Dendritic Cells

    Antonio Gigliotti Rothfuchs;Andre Bafica;Carl G. Feng;Jackson G. Egen

  • MyD88-deficient mice display a profound loss in resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated with partially impaired Th1 cytokine and nitric oxide synthase 2 expression.

    Charles A. Scanga;Andre Bafica;Carl G. Feng;Allen W. Cheever

  • Increase in Gamma Interferon-Secreting CD8+, as Well as CD4+, T Cells in Lungs following Aerosol Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Carl G. Feng;Andrew G. D. Bean;Helena Hooi;Helen Briscoe;Helen Briscoe

  • are the major source of host-protective regulatory IL-10 during intracellular protozoan infection

    Dragana Jankovic;Marika C. Kullberg;Carl G. Feng;Romina S. Goldszmid

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Sher
Alan Sher National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Warwick J. Britton
Warwick J. Britton University of Sydney
Gregory A. Taylor
Gregory A. Taylor Duke University
Dragana Jankovic
Dragana Jankovic National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Allen W. Cheever
Allen W. Cheever National Institutes of Health
Sara Hieny
Sara Hieny National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Caroline Demangel
Caroline Demangel Institut Pasteur
Patricia Caspar
Patricia Caspar National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Thomas A. Wynn
Thomas A. Wynn Pfizer (United States)
Christopher M. Sassetti
Christopher M. Sassetti University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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