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Overview

JoAnne L. Flynn is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases, immunology, and tuberculosis, with an extensive publication record in these areas. The main fields of study include Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant subfields in Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Epidemiology, Surgery, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, such as:

  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

JoAnne L. Flynn has co-authored frequently with Philana Ling Lin, Pauline Maiello, Sarah M. Fortune, Charles A. Scanga, and H. Jacob Borish.

Their publications appear predominantly in venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • Nature Microbiology
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by JoAnne L. Flynn include:

  • "Prevention of tuberculosis in macaques after intravenous BCG immunization," published in 2020 in Nature
  • "Adjuvanting a subunit COVID-19 vaccine to induce protective immunity," published in 2021 in Nature
  • "Multimodal profiling of lung granulomas in macaques reveals cellular correlates of tuberculosis control," published in 2022 in Immunity
  • "SARS-CoV-2 infection of African green monkeys results in mild respiratory disease discernible by PET/CT imaging and shedding of infectious virus from both respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts," published in 2020 in PLoS Pathogens
  • "Immune cell interactions in tuberculosis," published in 2022 in Cell

Best Publications

  • An essential role for interferon gamma in resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

    Jo Anne L. Flynn;John Chan;Karla J. Triebold;Dyana K. Dalton

  • Immunology of tuberculosis.

    JoAnne L. Flynn;John Chan

  • SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues.

    Carly G.K. Ziegler;Samuel J. Allon;Sarah K. Nyquist;Ian M. Mbano

  • Tumor necrosis factor-α is required in the protective immune response against mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice

    Jo Anne L. Flynn;Marsha M. Goldstein;John Chan;Karla J. Triebold

  • The spectrum of latent tuberculosis: rethinking the biology and intervention strategies

    Clifton E. Barry;Helena I. Boshoff;Véronique Dartois;Thomas Dick

  • SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Enriched in Specific Cell Subsets Across Tissues

    Carly Ziegler;Samuel J. Allon;Sarah K. Nyquist;Ian Mbano

  • Major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted T cells are required for resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

    Joanne L. Flynn;Marsha M. Goldstein;Karla J. Triebold;Beverly Koller

  • IL-17 Production Is Dominated by γδ T Cells rather than CD4 T Cells during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

    Euan Lockhart;Angela M. Green;JoAnne L. Flynn

  • Tuberculous granulomas are hypoxic in guinea pigs, rabbits, and nonhuman primates.

    Laura E. Via;P. Ling Lin;Sonja M. Ray;Jose Carrillo

  • Tuberculosis: latency and reactivation.

    JoAnne L. Flynn;John Chan

  • Effects of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha on Host Immune Response in Chronic Persistent Tuberculosis: Possible Role for Limiting Pathology

    Vellore P. Mohan;Charles A. Scanga;Keming Yu;Holly M. Scott

  • Tuberculosis: What We Don’t Know Can, and Does, Hurt Us

    David G. Russell;Clifton E. Barry;JoAnne L. Flynn

  • Mice deficient in CD4 T cells have only transiently diminished levels of IFN-gamma, yet succumb to tuberculosis.

    Amy Myers Caruso;Natalya Serbina;Edwin Klein;Karla Triebold

  • Understanding Latent Tuberculosis: A Moving Target

    Philana Ling Lin;JoAnne L. Flynn

  • Experimental Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of cynomolgus macaques closely resembles the various manifestations of human M. tuberculosis infection.

    Saverio V. Capuano;Denise A. Croix;Santosh Pawar;Angelica Zinovik

  • Sterilization of granulomas is common in active and latent tuberculosis despite within-host variability in bacterial killing

    Philana Ling Lin;Christopher B Ford;Christopher B Ford;M Teresa Coleman;Amy J Myers

  • Prevention of tuberculosis in macaques after intravenous BCG immunization

    Patricia A. Darrah;Joseph J. Zeppa;Pauline Maiello;Joshua A. Hackney

  • Latent tuberculosis: mechanisms of host and bacillus that contribute to persistent infection

    Jo Ann M. Tufariello;John Chan;Jo Anne L. Flynn

  • Effects of nitric oxide synthase inhibitors on murine infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    J Chan;K Tanaka;D Carroll;J Flynn

  • Use of whole genome sequencing to estimate the mutation rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during latent infection

    Christopher B Ford;Philana Ling Lin;Michael R Chase;Rupal R Shah

  • Characterization of the tuberculous granuloma in murine and human lungs: cellular composition and relative tissue oxygen tension.

    Ming C. Tsai;Soumya Chakravarty;Guofeng Zhu;Jiayong Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Philana Ling Lin
Philana Ling Lin University of Pittsburgh
Denise E. Kirschner
Denise E. Kirschner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John Chan
John Chan Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Sarah M. Fortune
Sarah M. Fortune Harvard University
Clifton E. Barry
Clifton E. Barry National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Jennifer J. Linderman
Jennifer J. Linderman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Véronique Dartois
Véronique Dartois Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Laura E. Via
Laura E. Via National Institutes of Health
Robert J. Wilkinson
Robert J. Wilkinson The Francis Crick Institute
Douglas B. Young
Douglas B. Young Imperial College London

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