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Overview

Christoph M. Tang is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and focuses on research primarily within Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans a range of subfields including Microbiology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Immunology.

Their research concentrates on several main topics, notably bacterial infections and vaccines, reproductive tract infections research, and studies related to Escherichia coli. Other significant areas include pneumonia and respiratory infections, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, Vibrio bacteria research studies, and syphilis diagnosis and treatment.

Christoph M. Tang has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • mBio
  • Military Medical Research
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Their recent published papers include:

  • Antimicrobial resistance crisis: could artificial intelligence be the solution?, 2024, Military Medical Research
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae Population Genomics: Use of the Gonococcal Core Genome to Improve Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance, 2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • DNA ADP-Ribosylation Stalls Replication and Is Reversed by RecF-Mediated Homologous Recombination and Nucleotide Excision Repair, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Commensal Neisseria cinerea impairs Neisseria meningitidis microcolony development and reduces pathogen colonisation of epithelial cells, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Molecular basis for the reversible ADP-ribosylation of guanosine bases, 2023, Molecular Cell

Throughout their career, Christoph M. Tang has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Martin Maiden
  • Ana Cehovin
  • Rachel M. Exley
  • Odile B. Harrison
  • Hayley Lavender

Best Publications

  • Making 'sense' of metabolism: autoinducer-2, LUXS and pathogenic bacteria

    Agnès Vendeville;Klaus Winzer;Karin Heurlier;Christoph M. Tang

  • Life on the inside: the intracellular lifestyle of cytosolic bacteria.

    Katrina Ray;Benoit Marteyn;Benoit Marteyn;Philippe J. Sansonetti;Christoph M. Tang

  • Optimization of virulence functions through glucosylation of Shigella LPS.

    Nicholas P. West;Philippe Sansonetti;Joëlle Mounier;Rachel M. Exley

  • Modulation of Shigella virulence in response to available oxygen in vivo

    Benoit Marteyn;Nicholas P West;Nicholas P West;Douglas F Browning;Jeffery A Cole

  • Neisseria Meningitidis Recruits Factor H Using Protein Mimicry of Host Carbohydrates.

    Muriel C. Schneider;Beverly E. Prosser;Joseph J. E. Caesar;Elisabeth Kugelberg

  • Type 1 fimbriae and extracellular polysaccharides are preeminent uropathogenic Escherichia coli virulence determinants in the murine urinary tract.

    Farah K. Bahrani-Mougeot;Eric L. Buckles;C. V. Lockatell;J. R. Hebel

  • Functional genomics of Neisseria meningitidis pathogenesis.

    Yao-Hui Sun;Sharmila Bakshi;Ronald Chalmers;Christoph M. Tang

  • Functional significance of factor H binding to Neisseria meningitidis

    Muriel C. Schneider;Rachel M. Exley;Hannah Chan;Ian Feavers

  • Architecture of the major component of the type III secretion system export apparatus.

    Patrizia Abrusci;Marta Vergara-Irigaray;Marta Vergara-Irigaray;Steven Johnson;Morgan D. Beeby;Morgan D. Beeby

  • Non-pathogenic Neisseria: members of an abundant, multi-habitat, diverse genus

    Guangyu Liu;Christoph M. Tang;Rachel M. Exley

  • The detection of Aspergillus spp. by the polymerase chain reaction and its evaluation in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid.

    Christoph M. Tang;David W. Holden;Agnès Aufauvre-Brown;Jonathan Cohen

  • Interactions between Neisseria meningitidis and the complement system

    Muriel C. Schneider;Rachel M. Exley;Sanjay Ram;Robert B. Sim

  • An Aspergillus fumigatus alkaline protease mutant constructed by gene disruption is deficient in extracellular elastase activity

    C. M. Tang;J. Cohen;D. W. Holden

  • Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Metabolic Profiling of the Prototypical Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Strain 042

    Roy R. Chaudhuri;Mohammed Sebaihia;Jon L Hobman;Mark A. Webber

  • Temperature triggers immune evasion by Neisseria meningitidis

    Edmund Loh;Elisabeth Kugelberg;Alexander Tracy;Qian Zhang

  • Signature-tagged mutagenesis: barcoding mutants for genome-wide screens.

    Piotr Mazurkiewicz;Christoph M. Tang;Charles Boone;David W. Holden

  • Proteomic analysis of a meningococcal outer membrane vesicle vaccine prepared from the group B strain NZ98/254.

    Caroline Vipond;Janet Suker;Christopher Jones;Christoph Tang

  • Underestimation of meningococci in tonsillar tissue by nasopharyngeal swabbing

    RJ Sim;MM Harrison;ER Moxon;CM Tang

  • Defining a protective epitope on factor H binding protein, a key meningococcal virulence factor and vaccine antigen

    Enrico Malito;Agnese Faleri;Paola Lo Surdo;Daniele Veggi

  • Going around in circles: virulence plasmids in enteric pathogens

    Giulia Pilla;Christoph M Tang

  • MAKING 'SENSE' OF METABOLISM: AUTOINDUCER2, LuxS AND PATHOGENIC BACTERIA

    Agnès Vendeville;Klaus Winzer;Karin Heurlier;Christoph M. Tang

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan M. Lea
Susan M. Lea University of Oxford
Philippe J. Sansonetti
Philippe J. Sansonetti Institut Pasteur
Ray Borrow
Ray Borrow Manchester Royal Infirmary
Martin C. J. Maiden
Martin C. J. Maiden University of Oxford
Klaus Winzer
Klaus Winzer University of Nottingham
Robert B. Sim
Robert B. Sim University of Oxford
Paul S. Freemont
Paul S. Freemont Imperial College London
E. Richard Moxon
E. Richard Moxon University of Oxford
Harry Smith
Harry Smith University of Birmingham
Keith A. Jolley
Keith A. Jolley University of Oxford

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