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2024
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
UK
2024

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Immunology

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125
Citations
58378
World Ranking
283
National Ranking
24

Genetics

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123
Citations
57382
World Ranking
331
National Ranking
59

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

John Trowsdale is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on immunology and microbiology, with additional contributions to the fields of medicine.

Their work spans several subfields, including immunology, infectious diseases, molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and hematology. The main topics covered by their studies involve immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, reproductive system and pregnancy, the complement system in diseases, galectins and cancer biology, research related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

John Trowsdale has published multiple papers, with notable examples including:

  • LILRB3 (ILT5) is a myeloid cell checkpoint that elicits profound immunomodulation, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Investigation of CD26, a potential SARS-CoV-2 receptor, as a biomarker of age and pathology, 2020, Bioscience Reports
  • Variations in killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor and human leukocyte antigen genes and immunity to malaria, 2020, Cellular and Molecular Immunology
  • KIR Variation in Iranians Combines High Haplotype and Allotype Diversity With an Abundance of Functional Inhibitory Receptors, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • KIR in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Need for a Unified Paradigm for Donor Selection, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology

Frequently publishing in venues such as Frontiers in Immunology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Research Square, JCI Insight, and Bioscience Reports, they have a consistent presence in journals relevant to immunology and related biomedical research.

John Trowsdale often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • James A. Traherne
  • Jyothi Jayaraman
  • Stephen Tukwasibwe
  • Annettee Nakimuli
  • Olympe Chazara

Best Publications

  • Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 2010.

    S G. E. Marsh;E. D. Albert;W. F. Bodmer;R. E. Bontrop

  • Complete sequence and gene map of a human major histocompatibility complex

    S Beck;D Geraghty;H Inoko;L Rowen

  • Epistatic interaction between KIR3DS1 and HLA-B delays the progression to AIDS

    Maureen P. Martin;Xiaojiang Gao;Jeong Hee Lee;George W. Nelson

  • Gene map of the extended human MHC

    Roger Horton;Laurens Wilming;Vikki Rand;Ruth C. Lovering

  • Combinations of Maternal KIR and Fetal HLA-C Genes Influence the Risk of Preeclampsia and Reproductive Success

    Susan E. Hiby;James J. Walker;Kevin M. O'Shaughnessy;Christopher W.G. Redman

  • A high resolution HLA and SNP haplotype map for disease association studies in the extended human MHC

    Paul I W de Bakker;Gil McVean;Pardis C Sabeti;Marcos M Miretti

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Andreas Acs

  • Sequences encoded in the class II region of the MHC related to the 'ABC' superfamily of transporters

    J Trowsdale;I Hanson;I Mockridge;S Beck

  • Major Histocompatibility Complex Genomics and Human Disease

    John Trowsdale;Julian C. Knight

  • Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 2004

    Steven G.E. Marsh;E. D. Albert;W. F. Bodmer;R. E. Bontrop

  • Plasticity in the organization and sequences of human KIR/ILT gene families

    Michael J. Wilson;Michaela Torkar;Anja Haude;Sarah Milne

  • A novel gysteine-rich sequence motif

    Paul S. Freemont;Isabel M. Hanson;John Trowsdale

  • Genetic Control of MHC Class II Expression

    Jenny Pan Yun Ting;John Trowsdale

  • Map of the human MHC

    John Trowsdale;Jiannis Ragoussis;R. Duncan Campbell

  • A critical role for tapasin in the assembly and function of multimeric MHC class I-TAP complexes.

    Bodo Ortmann;James Copeman;Paul J. Lehner;Bhanu Sadasivan

  • Comparative genomics of major histocompatibility complexes

    James Kelley;Lutz Walter;John Trowsdale

  • Constitutive and induced expression of DC-SIGN on dendritic cell and macrophage subpopulations in situ and in vitro.

    Elizabeth J. Soilleux;Lesley S. Morris;George Leslie;Jihed Chehimi

  • A proteasome-related gene between the two ABC transporter loci in the class II region of the human MHC.

    Richard Glynne;Stephen H. Powis;Stephan Beck;Adrian Kelly

  • Large-scale chromatin organization of the major histocompatibility complex and other regions of human chromosome 6 and its response to interferon in interphase nuclei

    E.V. Volpi;E. Chevret;T. Jones;R. Vatcheva

  • NK cell responses to cytomegalovirus infection lead to stable imprints in the human KIR repertoire and involve activating KIRS

    Vivien Béziat;Lisa L. Liu;Jenny-Ann Malmberg;Martin A. Ivarsson

  • The bromodomain: a conserved sequence found in human, Drosophila and yeast proteins

    Susan R. Haynes;Catherine Dollard;Fred Winston;Stephan Beck

  • Second proteasome-related gene in the human MHC class II region.

    Adrian Kelly;Stephen H. Powis;Richard Glynne;Elizabeth Radley

  • Identification and preliminary characterization of a protein motif related to the zinc finger.

    Ruth Lovering;Isabel M. Hanson;Katherine L. Borden;Stephen Martin

  • Promiscuity and the single receptor: NKG2D.

    Robert A. Eagle;John Trowsdale

  • DC-SIGNR, a DC-SIGN homologue expressed in endothelial cells, binds to human and simian immunodeficiency viruses and activates infection in trans.

    Stefan Pöhlmann;Elizabeth J. Soilleux;Frédéric Baribaud;George J. Leslie

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Beck
Stephan Beck University College London
Walter F. Bodmer
Walter F. Bodmer University of Oxford
Mary Carrington
Mary Carrington Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard
Karl-Johan Malmberg
Karl-Johan Malmberg Oslo University Hospital
Ashley Moffett
Ashley Moffett University of Cambridge
Peter Parham
Peter Parham Stanford University
Francesco Colucci
Francesco Colucci University of Cambridge
Denise Sheer
Denise Sheer Queen Mary University of London
William D. Foulkes
William D. Foulkes McGill University
Jacques Neefjes
Jacques Neefjes Leiden University Medical Center

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