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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - AAI Distinguished Service Award, American Association of Immunologists For outstanding service to AAI and the immunology community as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Immunology, 2008–2013
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jeremy M. Boss is affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with notable contributions also in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work spans several subfields, including immunology, molecular biology, oncology, epidemiology, and neurology. Topics often covered in their research include immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, immunotherapy and immune responses, epigenetics and DNA methylation, CAR-T cell therapy research, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, and single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.

Jeremy M. Boss has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication channels include The Journal of Immunology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Immunity, Nature Communications, and ImmunoHorizons.

Some recent representative papers authored by or involving Jeremy M. Boss are:

  • Environmental cues regulate epigenetic reprogramming of airway-resident memory CD8+ T cells, 2020, Nature Immunology
  • Signaling through the Inhibitory Fc Receptor FcγRIIB Induces CD8+ T Cell Apoptosis to Limit T Cell Immunity, 2020, Immunity
  • Antibody-secreting cell destiny emerges during the initial stages of B-cell activation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A transcriptionally distinct subset of influenza-specific effector memory B cells predicts long-lived antibody responses to vaccination in humans, 2023, Immunity
  • Distinct Effector B Cells Induced by Unregulated Toll-like Receptor 7 Contribute to Pathogenic Responses in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, 2020, Immunity

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jeremy M. Boss include:

  • Christopher D. Scharer
  • Anna Kania
  • Sakeenah L. Hicks
  • Dillon G. Patterson
  • Madeline J. Price

The scientist has been recognized with awards such as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014 and the AAI Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Immunologists the same year for service as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Immunology between 2008 and 2013.

Best Publications

  • The NLR gene family: a standard nomenclature

    Jenny P.Y. Ting;Ruth C. Lovering;Emad S. Alnemri;John Bertin

  • The neuron-specific protein PGP 9.5 is a ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase

    Keith D. Wilkinson;Keunmyoung Lee;Seema Deshpande;Penelope Duerksen-Hughes

  • Distinct Effector B Cells Induced by Unregulated Toll-like Receptor 7 Contribute to Pathogenic Responses in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    Scott A. Jenks;Kevin S. Cashman;Esther Zumaquero;Urko M. Marigorta

  • Defining the CREB Regulon: A Genome-Wide Analysis of Transcription Factor Regulatory Regions

    Soren Impey;Sean R. McCorkle;Hyunjoo Cha-Molstad;Jami M. Dwyer

  • Immune interferon activates multiple class II major histocompatibility complex genes and the associated invariant chain gene in human endothelial cells and dermal fibroblasts

    Tucker Collins;Alan J. Korman;Claire T. Wake;Jeremy M. Boss

  • Transcription factor T-bet represses expression of the inhibitory receptor PD-1 and sustains virus-specific CD8 + T cell responses during chronic infection

    Charlly Kao;Kenneth J. Oestreich;Michael A. Paley;Alison Crawford

  • NFATc1 Regulates PD-1 Expression upon T Cell Activation

    Kenneth J. Oestreich;Hyesuk Yoon;Rafi Ahmed;Jeremy M. Boss

  • Chronic Virus Infection Enforces Demethylation of the Locus that Encodes PD-1 in Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Cells

    Benjamin Alan Youngblood;Kenneth J. Oestreich;Kenneth J. Oestreich;Sang-Jun Ha;Sang-Jun Ha;Jaikumar Duraiswamy

  • Human Cytomegalovirus Inhibits Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Expression By Disruption of the Jak/Stat Pathway

    Daniel M. Miller;Brian M. Rahill;Jeremy M. Boss;Michael Dale Lairmore

  • MTA3 and the Mi-2/NuRD Complex Regulate Cell Fate during B Lymphocyte Differentiation

    Naoyuki Fujita;David L. Jaye;Cissy Geigerman;Adil Akyildiz

  • Single-crystal diamond nanomechanical resonators with quality factors exceeding one million

    Y. Tao;Y. Tao;J. M. Boss;B. A. Moores;C. L. Degen

  • Cultured human endothelial cells express platelet-derived growth factor B chain: cDNA cloning and structural analysis

    Tucker Collins;David Ginsburg;Jeremy M. Boss;Stuart H. Orkin

  • The role of innate and adaptive immunity in Parkinson's disease.

    George T. Kannarkat;Jeremy M. Boss;Malú G. Tansey

  • Tumor necrosis factor alpha and interleukin-1beta regulate the murine manganese superoxide dismutase gene through a complex intronic enhancer involving C/EBP-beta and NF-kappaB.

    P L Jones;D Ping;J M Boss

  • Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation of PD-1 Expression.

    Alexander P. R. Bally;James W. Austin;Jeremy M. Boss

  • Genetic complexity and expression of human class II histocompatibility antigens.

    A. J. Korman;J. M. Boss;T. Spies;R. Sorrentino

  • Regulation of transcription of MHC class II genes.

    Jeremy M Boss

  • LRRK2 levels in immune cells are increased in Parkinson’s disease

    D.A Cook;G.T Kannarkat;A.F Cintron;Laura M. Butkovich

  • Promoter Region Architecture and Transcriptional Regulation of the Genes for the MHC Class I-Related Chain A and B Ligands of NKG2D

    Gopalakrishnan M. Venkataraman;Dominic Suciu;Veronika Groh;Jeremy M. Boss

  • Rapid Demethylation of the IFN-γ Gene Occurs in Memory but Not Naive CD8 T Cells

    Ellen N. Kersh;David R. Fitzpatrick;Kaja Murali-Krishna;John Shires

  • RFX-B Is the Gene Responsible for the Most Common Cause of the Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome, an MHC Class II Immunodeficiency

    Uma M Nagarajan;Pascale Louis-Plence;Angela DeSandro;Roger Nilsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack L. Strominger
Jack L. Strominger Harvard University
Rafi Ahmed
Rafi Ahmed Emory University
Ignacio Sanz
Ignacio Sanz Emory University
Frances E. Lund
Frances E. Lund University of Alabama at Birmingham
Troy D. Randall
Troy D. Randall University of Alabama at Birmingham
Charles Auffray
Charles Auffray Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Carlos S. Moreno
Carlos S. Moreno Emory University
Thomas Spies
Thomas Spies Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Walter Reith
Walter Reith University of Geneva
James L. Riley
James L. Riley University of Pennsylvania

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