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James G. Beeson

James G. Beeson

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Immunology

D-Index
84
Citations
21879
World Ranking
1401
National Ranking
52

Medicine

D-Index
84
Citations
21935
World Ranking
15268
National Ranking
507

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

James G. Beeson is primarily affiliated with the Burnet Institute in Australia. Their research spans several interconnected fields, focusing heavily on medicine, immunology, and microbiology. The scientist's main fields of study include medicine with 190 publications, and immunology and microbiology with 72 publications. Within these, Beeson concentrates on subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, immunology, epidemiology, infectious diseases, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Beeson's work addresses crucial global health issues, particularly related to malaria and infectious diseases. The main topics covered by their research include malaria research and control, mosquito-borne diseases and control, complement system in diseases, global maternal and child health, HIV research and treatment, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and invertebrate immune response mechanisms.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 15 publications, Frontiers in Immunology with 12, BMC Medicine with 6, Nature Communications with 4, and The Journal of Infectious Diseases with 4 papers.

Recent papers authored by James G. Beeson include:

  • Identifying and combating the impacts of COVID-19 on malaria, 2020, BMC Medicine
  • Mechanisms and targets of Fcγ-receptor mediated immunity to malaria sporozoites, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Multifunctional Antibodies Are Induced by the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine and Associated With Protection in a Phase 1/2a Trial, 2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Th2-like T Follicular Helper Cells Promote Functional Antibody Production during Plasmodium falciparum Infection, 2020, Cell Reports Medicine
  • Complement Factors in COVID-19 Therapeutics and Vaccines, 2020, Trends in Immunology

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their career, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Freya J. I. Fowkes (23 joint works)
  • Liriye Kurtovic (20 joint works)
  • Jo-Anne Chan (17 joint works)
  • D. Herbert Opi (17 joint works)
  • Bruce D. Wines (16 joint works)

James G. Beeson was awarded the status of Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Exported Proteins Required for Virulence and Rigidity of Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Human Erythrocytes

    Alexander G Maier;Melanie Rug;Matthew T O'Neill;Monica Brown

  • Clinical features and pathogenesis of severe malaria

    Claire L. Mackintosh;James G. Beeson;Kevin Marsh

  • Super-Resolution Dissection of Coordinated Events during Malaria Parasite Invasion of the Human Erythrocyte

    David T Riglar;Dave Richard;Danny W Wilson;Michelle J. Boyle;Michelle J. Boyle

  • The Relationship between Anti-merozoite Antibodies and Incidence of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Freya J. I. Fowkes;Jack S. Richards;Jack S. Richards;Julie A. Simpson;James G. Beeson

  • Adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to hyaluronic acid in placental malaria.

    James G. Beeson;Stephen J. Rogerson;Stephen J. Rogerson;Brian M. Cooke;John C. Reeder

  • Merozoite surface proteins in red blood cell invasion, immunity and vaccines against malaria

    James G. Beeson;James G. Beeson;James G. Beeson;Damien R. Drew;Michelle J. Boyle;Gaoqian Feng

  • Blood stage malaria vaccine eliciting high antigen-specific antibody concentrations confers no protection to young children in Western Kenya.

    Bernhards R. Ogutu;Odika J. Apollo;Denise McKinney;Willis Okoth

  • ISOLATION OF VIABLE PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MEROZOITES TO DEFINE ERYTHROCYTE INVASION EVENTS AND ADVANCE VACCINE AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT

    Michelle J Boyle;Danny W Wilson;Jack S Richards;David T Riglar

  • Molecular properties of human IgG subclasses and their implications for designing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies against infectious diseases

    Vashti Irani;Andrew J. Guy;Dean W Andrew;James G. Beeson

  • Plasmodium falciparum Isolates from Infected Pregnant Women and Children Are Associated with Distinct Adhesive and Antigenic Properties

    James G. Beeson;Graham V. Brown;Malcolm E. Molyneux;Malcolm E. Molyneux;Chisale Mhango

  • A var gene promoter controls allelic exclusion of virulence genes in Plasmodium falciparum malaria

    Till S. Voss;Julie Healer;Allison J. Marty;Allison J. Marty;Michael F. Duffy

  • Human antibodies fix complement to inhibit Plasmodium falciparum invasion of erythrocytes and are associated with protection against malaria.

    Michelle J. Boyle;Linda Reiling;Gaoqian Feng;Christine Langer

  • PTEX is an essential nexus for protein export in malaria parasites

    Brendan Elsworth;Brendan Elsworth;Kathryn Matthews;Catherine Q. Nie;Ming Kalanon

  • Reticulocyte-binding protein homologue 5 – An essential adhesin involved in invasion of human erythrocytes by Plasmodium falciparum

    Jake Baum;Lin Chen;Julie Healer;Sash Lopaticki

  • Immunoglobulin G Subclass-Specific Responses against Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Antigens Are Associated with Control of Parasitemia and Protection from Symptomatic Illness

    Danielle I. Stanisic;Jack S. Richards;Jack S. Richards;Fiona J. McCallum;Fiona J. McCallum;Pascal Michon

  • The adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to chondroitin sulfate A is mediated by P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1

    John C. Reeder;Alan Frederick Cowman;Kathleen M. Davern;James G. Beeson;James G. Beeson

  • The future for blood-stage vaccines against malaria.

    Jack S Richards;James G Beeson

  • Sir2 paralogues cooperate to regulate virulence genes and antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum.

    Christopher J Tonkin;Céline K Carret;Céline K Carret;Manoj T Duraisingh;Manoj T Duraisingh;Till S Voss

  • Complement receptor 1 is the host erythrocyte receptor for Plasmodium falciparum PfRh4 invasion ligand

    Wai Hong Tham;Danny W. Wilson;Sash Lopaticki;Christoph Q. Schmidt

  • Opsonic phagocytosis of Plasmodium falciparum merozoites: mechanism in human immunity and a correlate of protection against malaria

    Faith Ha Osier;Faith Ha Osier;Gaoqian Feng;Michelle J Boyle;Christine Langer

Frequent Co-Authors

Freya J. I. Fowkes
Freya J. I. Fowkes Burnet Institute
Jack S. Richards
Jack S. Richards ZiP Diagnostics
Ivo Mueller
Ivo Mueller Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Stephen J. Rogerson
Stephen J. Rogerson University of Melbourne
Alan F. Cowman
Alan F. Cowman Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Kevin Marsh
Kevin Marsh University of Oxford
Brendan S. Crabb
Brendan S. Crabb Monash University
Peter Siba
Peter Siba Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research
Robin F. Anders
Robin F. Anders La Trobe University
Graham Brown
Graham Brown University of Melbourne

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