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  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Gordon D. Brown is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research expertise focuses primarily on Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with extensive work related to Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology within these broad fields.

The scientist's research topics emphasize:

  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Fungal infections and studies
  • Neutrophil, myeloperoxidase and oxidative mechanisms
  • Plant pathogens and fungal diseases
  • Glycosylation and glycoproteins research
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Plant-microbe interactions and immunity

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by the scientist are:

  • "The pathobiology of human fungal infections", 2024, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "TREM2 drives microglia response to amyloid-β via SYK-dependent and -independent pathways", 2022, Cell
  • "Phagosomal removal of fungal melanin reprograms macrophage metabolism to promote antifungal immunity", 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Mannan detecting C-type lectin receptor probes recognise immune epitopes with diverse chemical, spatial and phylogenetic heterogeneity in fungal cell walls", 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • "PAMPs of the Fungal Cell Wall and Mammalian PRRs", 2020, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this scientist include:

  • Janet A. Willment
  • Neil A. R. Gow
  • Alistair J. P. Brown
  • Ivy M. Dambuza
  • Mihai G. Netea

Common venues for the scientist's publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • mBio
  • Trends in Microbiology
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Immunology

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom, an award received in 2020. This distinction reflects contributions made to scientific research and scholarship within their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • Hidden Killers: Human Fungal Infections

    Gordon D. Brown;David W. Denning;Neil A. R. Gow;Stuart M. Levitz

  • Macrophage receptors and immune recognition.

    Taylor Pr;Martinez-Pomares L;Stacey M;Lin Hh

  • Dectin-1 Mediates the Biological Effects of β-Glucans

    Gordon D A Brown;Jurgen Herre;David L. Williams;Janet A Willment

  • Immune recognition. A new receptor for beta-glucans.

    Gordon D. Brown;Siamon Gordon

  • Dectin-1: a signalling non-TLR pattern-recognition receptor.

    Gordon D. Brown

  • Syk- and CARD9-dependent coupling of innate immunity to the induction of T helper cells that produce interleukin 17.

    Salomé LeibundGut-Landmann;Olaf Groß;Matthew J Robinson;Fabiola Osorio

  • Dectin-1 is required for beta-glucan recognition and control of fungal infection.

    Philip Russel Taylor;S. Vicky Tsoni;Janet A. Willment;Kevin M. Dennehy

  • Dectin-1 Is A Major β-Glucan Receptor On Macrophages

    Gordon D. Brown;Philip Russel Taylor;Delyth M. Reid;Janet A. Willment

  • Interactions Between Commensal Fungi and the C-Type Lectin Receptor Dectin-1 Influence Colitis

    Iliyan D. Iliev;Vincent A. Funari;Vincent A. Funari;Kent D. Taylor;Quoclinh Nguyen

  • Syk-Dependent Cytokine Induction by Dectin-1 Reveals a Novel Pattern Recognition Pathway for C Type Lectins

    Neil C. Rogers;Emma Wetter Slack;Alexander D. Edwards;Martijn A. Nolte

  • An integrated model of the recognition of Candida albicans by the innate immune system.

    Mihai G. Netea;Gordon D. Brown;Bart Jan Kullberg;Neil A. R. Gow

  • Neutrophils sense microbe size and selectively release neutrophil extracellular traps in response to large pathogens

    Nora Branzk;Aleksandra Lubojemska;Sarah E Hardison;Qian Wang

  • Fungal β-Glucans and Mammalian Immunity

    Gordon D Brown;Siamon Gordon

  • Five-vertebrate ChIP-seq reveals the evolutionary dynamics of transcription factor binding

    Dominic Schmidt;Michael D. Wilson;Benoit Ballester;Petra C. Schwalie

  • Human Dectin-1 Deficiency and Mucocutaneous Fungal Infections

    Bart Ferwerda;Gerben Ferwerda;Theo S. Plantinga;Janet A. Willment

  • The beta-glucan receptor, dectin-1, is predominantly expressed on the surface of cells of the monocyte/macrophage and neutrophil lineages.

    Philip R Taylor;Gordon D Brown;Delyth M Reid;Janet A Willment

  • C-type lectins in immunity and homeostasis

    Gordon D Brown;Janet A Willment;Lauren Whitehead

  • Tackling human fungal infections.

    Gordon D. Brown;David W. Denning;Stuart M. Levitz

  • An Essential Role for the NLRP3 Inflammasome in Host Defense against the Human Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans

    Amy G. Hise;Jeffrey Tomalka;Sandhya Ganesan;Krupen Patel

  • ChIP-seq: Using high-throughput sequencing to discover protein-DNA interactions

    Dominic Schmidt;Michael D. Wilson;Christiana Spyrou;Gordon D. Brown

  • The Beta-Glucan Receptor Dectin-1 Recognizes Specific Morphologies of Aspergillus fumigatus

    Chad Steele;Rekha R. Rapaka;Allison Metz;Shannon M. Pop

Frequent Co-Authors

Siamon Gordon
Siamon Gordon University of Oxford
Neil A. R. Gow
Neil A. R. Gow University of Exeter
Philip R. Taylor
Philip R. Taylor Cardiff University
Mihai G. Netea
Mihai G. Netea Radboud University
David L. Williams
David L. Williams East Tennessee State University
Alistair J. P. Brown
Alistair J. P. Brown University of Exeter
Graeme I. Murray
Graeme I. Murray University of Aberdeen
Frank Brombacher
Frank Brombacher University of Cape Town
Donna M. MacCallum
Donna M. MacCallum University of Aberdeen
Luisa Martinez-Pomares
Luisa Martinez-Pomares University of Nottingham

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