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Overview

Gerald H. Learn is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine, with a focus on Virology and Infectious Diseases. Subfields also include Epidemiology, Emergency Medicine, and Paleontology, reflecting a breadth of scientific inquiry.

The main topics of their work revolve around HIV research and treatment, encompassing HIV/AIDS research and interventions and related areas such as HIV, drug use, sexual risk, and HIV-related health complications and treatments. Their research additionally contributes to evolution and paleontology studies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and investigations into immune cell function and interaction.

Gerald H. Learn has several recent publications, including:

  • "High Multiplicity Infection by HIV-1 in Men Who Have Sex with Men," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Correction for Rudicell et al., "High Prevalence of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in a Community of Savanna Chimpanzees"," 2022, Journal of Virology
  • "Genetic identity, biological phenotype, and evolutionary pathways of transmitted/founder viruses in acute and early HIV-1 infection," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "Phylogenetic Hypotheses for the Monocotyledons Constructed from rbcL Sequence Data," 2021, ScholarWorks (Boise State University)
  • "The first T cell response to transmitted/founder virus contributes to the control of acute viremia in HIV-1 infection," 2020, UNC Libraries

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Beatrice H. Hahn
  • George M. Shaw
  • Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez
  • Maria G. Salazar
  • Peter Hraber

The most common venues for their publications are:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Virology
  • ScholarWorks (Boise State University)

Best Publications

  • HIV-1 Nomenclature Proposal

    DL Robertson;JP Anderson;JA Bradac;JK Carr

  • CD8+ T-cell responses to different HIV proteins have discordant associations with viral load

    Photini Kiepiela;Kholiswa Ngumbela;Christina Thobakgale;Dhanwanthie Ramduth

  • Consistent viral evolutionary changes associated with the progression of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection

    Raj Shankarappa;Joseph B. Margolick;Stephen J. Gange;Allen G. Rodrigo

  • Genetic identity, biological phenotype, and evolutionary pathways of transmitted/founder viruses in acute and early HIV-1 infection.

    Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez;Maria G. Salazar;Brandon F. Keele;Gerald H. Learn

  • The first T cell response to transmitted/founder virus contributes to the control of acute viremia in HIV-1 infection

    Nilu Goonetilleke;Michael K.P. Liu;Jesus F. Salazar-Gonzalez;Guido Ferrari

  • Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in gorillas

    Weimin Liu;Yingying Li;Gerald H Learn;Rebecca S Rudicell

  • Rates and patterns of chloroplast DNA evolution.

    Michael T. Clegg;Brandon S. Gaut;Gerald H. Learn;Brian R. Morton

  • HIV-1 antibody 3BNC117 suppresses viral rebound in humans during treatment interruption

    Johannes F. Scheid;Johannes F. Scheid;Joshua A. Horwitz;Yotam Bar-On;Edward F. Kreider

  • Antibody 10-1074 suppresses viremia in HIV-1-infected individuals

    Marina Caskey;Till Schoofs;Henning Gruell;Allison Settler

  • Effect of HIV Antibody VRC01 on Viral Rebound after Treatment Interruption

    Katharine J Bar;Michael C Sneller;Linda J Harrison;J Shawn Justement

  • Tetherin-Driven Adaptation of Vpu and Nef Function and the Evolution of Pandemic and Nonpandemic HIV-1 Strains

    Daniel Sauter;Michael Schindler;Anke Specht;Wilmina N. Landford

  • HIV-1 Integration Landscape during Latent and Active Infection

    Lillian B. Cohn;Israel T. Silva;Israel T. Silva;Thiago Y. Oliveira;Rafael A. Rosales

  • Increased mortality and AIDS-like immunopathology in wild chimpanzees infected with SIVcpz

    Brandon F. Keele;Brandon F. Keele;James Holland Jones;Karen A. Terio;Jacob D. Estes

  • HIV-1 therapy with monoclonal antibody 3BNC117 elicits host immune responses against HIV-1

    Till Schoofs;Florian Klein;Florian Klein;Florian Klein;Malte Braunschweig;Malte Braunschweig;Edward F. Kreider

  • High Multiplicity Infection by HIV-1 in Men Who Have Sex with Men.

    Hui-Hui Li;Katharine J. Bar;Shuyi Wang;Julie M. Decker

  • Low-dose rectal inoculation of rhesus macaques by SIVsmE660 or SIVmac251 recapitulates human mucosal infection by HIV-1

    Brandon F. Keele;Hui Li;Gerald H. Learn;Peter Hraber

  • Founder effects in the assessment of HIV polymorphisms and HLA allele associations.

    Tanmoy Bhattacharya;Tanmoy Bhattacharya;Marcus Daniels;David Heckerman;Brian Foley

  • ViroBLAST: a stand-alone BLAST web server for flexible queries of multiple databases and user's datasets.

    Wenjie Deng;David C. Nickle;Gerald H. Learn;Brandon Maust

  • Dual HIV-1 infection associated with rapid disease progression.

    Geoffrey S. Gottlieb;David C. Nickle;Mark A. Jensen;Kim G. Wong

  • Origin of the HIV-1 group O epidemic in western lowland gorillas

    Mirela D’arc;Mirela D’arc;Ahidjo Ayouba;Amandine Esteban;Gerald H. Learn

  • Evidence that Low-Level Viremias during Effective Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Result from Two Processes: Expression of Archival Virus and Replication of Virus

    Nicole H. Tobin;Gerald H. Learn;Sarah E. Holte;Yang Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Beatrice H. Hahn
Beatrice H. Hahn University of Pennsylvania
James I. Mullins
James I. Mullins University of Washington
George M. Shaw
George M. Shaw University of Pennsylvania
Paul M. Sharp
Paul M. Sharp University of Edinburgh
Bette T. Korber
Bette T. Korber Los Alamos National Laboratory
Brandon F. Keele
Brandon F. Keele National Institutes of Health
Bruce D. Walker
Bruce D. Walker Harvard University
Barton F. Haynes
Barton F. Haynes Duke University
David C. Nickle
David C. Nickle Monoceros Biosystems
Frederic Bibollet-Ruche
Frederic Bibollet-Ruche University of Pennsylvania

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