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  • 2017 - AAI Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Immunologists For outstanding service to AAI and the immunology community as member and chair of the AAI Publications Committee, 2012-2016

Overview

Eugene M. Oltz is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, immunology, microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist has notable involvement in infectious diseases, immunology, molecular biology, oncology, and animal science and zoology.

The focus of their research covers several core topics, including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
  • Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Oltz has published extensively, with frequent appearances in key scientific venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Cell Reports
  • mBio
  • Cell Host & Microbe

Among the recent publications associated with Eugene M. Oltz are:

  • Enhanced neutralization resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BA.4.6, BF.7, and BA.2.75.2, 2022, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Neutralizing antibody responses elicited by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination wane over time and are boosted by breakthrough infection, 2022, Science Translational Medicine
  • SARS-CoV-2 spreads through cell-to-cell transmission, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • DNA double-strand breaks induce H2Ax phosphorylation domains in a contact-dependent manner, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Enhanced evasion of neutralizing antibody response by Omicron XBB.1.5, CH.1.1, and CA.3.1 variants, 2023, Cell Reports

Frequent collaborators in their work include Linda J. Saif, Shan-Lu Liu, Richard J. Gumina, Yi-Min Zheng, and Claire Carlin.

Oltz received the AAI Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Immunologists in 2017 for outstanding service as a member and chair of the AAI Publications Committee from 2012 to 2016.

Best Publications

  • RAG-2-deficient mice lack mature lymphocytes owing to inability to initiate V(D)J rearrangement

    Yoichi Shinkai;Gary Rathbun;Kong-Peng Lam;Eugene M. Oltz

  • The Colonic Crypt Protects Stem Cells from Microbiota-Derived Metabolites

    Gerard E. Kaiko;Stacy H. Ryu;Olivia I. Koues;Patrick L. Collins

  • The transcription factor BATF controls the global regulators of class-switch recombination in both B cells and T cells.

    Wataru Ise;Masako Kohyama;Masako Kohyama;Barbara U Schraml;Tingting Zhang;Tingting Zhang

  • Cancer predisposition and hematopoietic failure in Rad50S/S mice

    Carla F. Bender;Michael L. Sikes;Ruth Sullivan;Leslie Erskine Huye

  • Gene Regulatory Programs Conferring Phenotypic Identities to Human NK Cells.

    Patrick L. Collins;Marina Cella;Sofia I. Porter;Shasha Li

  • Subsets of ILC3-ILC1-like cells generate a diversity spectrum of innate lymphoid cells in human mucosal tissues.

    Marina Cella;Ramya Gamini;Cristiane Sécca;Patrick L. Collins;Patrick L. Collins

  • Distinct Gene Regulatory Pathways for Human Innate versus Adaptive Lymphoid Cells.

    Olivia I. Koues;Patrick L. Collins;Marina Cella;Michelle L. Robinette

  • Targeted inhibition of V(D)J recombination by a histone methyltransferase

    Oleg Osipovich;Robin Milley;Amber Meade;Makoto Tachibana

  • DNA double-strand breaks induce H2Ax phosphorylation domains in a contact-dependent manner

    Patrick L. Collins;Caitlin Purman;Sofia I. Porter;Vincent Nganga

  • Regulation of TCRβ Gene Assembly by a Promoter/Enhancer Holocomplex

    Kenneth J. Oestreich;Robin Milley Cobb;Steven Pierce;Jianzhu Chen

  • Deep sequencing of the murine IgH repertoire reveals complex regulation of nonrandom V gene rearrangement frequencies.

    Nancy M. Choi;Salvatore Loguercio;Jiyoti Verma-Gaur;Stephanie C. Degner

  • Toxoplasma gondii infection drives conversion of NK cells into ILC1-like cells.

    Eugene Park;Swapneel Patel;Qiuling Wang;Prabhakar Andhey

  • Functional Analysis of Histone Methyltransferase G9a in B and T Lymphocytes

    Lance R. Thomas;Hiroki Miyashita;Robin Milley Cobb;Steven Pierce

  • Neutralizing antibody against SARS-CoV-2 spike in COVID-19 patients, health care workers, and convalescent plasma donors.

    Cong Zeng;John P. Evans;Rebecca Pearson;Panke Qu

  • Essential function for SWI-SNF chromatin-remodeling complexes in the promoter-directed assembly of Tcrb genes.

    Oleg Osipovich;Robin Milley Cobb;Kenneth J Oestreich;Kenneth J Oestreich;Steven Pierce

  • Circadian rhythm-dependent and circadian rhythm-independent impacts of the molecular clock on type 3 innate lymphoid cells.

    Qianli Wang;Michelle L. Robinette;Cyrielle Billon;Patrick L. Collins

  • Blood natural killer cell deficiency reveals an immunotherapy strategy for atopic dermatitis.

    Madison R. Mack;Jonathan R. Brestoff;Melissa M. Berrien-Elliott;Anna M. Trier

  • Distribution of tunichrome and vanadium in sea squirt blood cells sorted by flow cytometry

    E. M. Oltz;S. Pollack;T. Delohery;M. J. Smith

  • Unifying model for molecular determinants of the preselection Vβ repertoire

    Suhasni Gopalakrishnan;Kinjal Majumder;Alexander Predeus;Yue Huang

  • SARS-CoV-2 Spreads through Cell-to-Cell Transmission

    Cong Zeng;John P. Evans;Tiffany King;Tiffany King;Yi-Min Zheng

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Colonna
Marco Colonna Washington University in St. Louis
Shan-Lu Liu
Shan-Lu Liu The Ohio State University
Maxim N. Artyomov
Maxim N. Artyomov Washington University in St. Louis
Marina Cella
Marina Cella Washington University in St. Louis
Wayne M. Yokoyama
Wayne M. Yokoyama Washington University in St. Louis
Linda J. Saif
Linda J. Saif The Ohio State University
Susan Gilfillan
Susan Gilfillan Washington University in St. Louis
Kenneth M. Murphy
Kenneth M. Murphy Washington University in St. Louis
Eric Vivier
Eric Vivier Aix-Marseille University
L. David Sibley
L. David Sibley Washington University in St. Louis

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