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Liisa K. Selin is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, with additional work in Medicine. The main focus is on Immunology, with subfields including Oncology, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics.

The scientist's work concentrates on several interconnected topics, including:

  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • CAR-T cell therapy research

Liisa K. Selin has published multiple articles in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Immunology
  • BMC Bioinformatics
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Drug Safety

Selected recent publications demonstrate the breadth of their research interests. These papers include:

  • "Implications of Non-Specific Effects for Testing, Approving, and Regulating Vaccines," 2023, Drug Safety
  • "SwarmTCR: a computational approach to predict the specificity of T cell receptors," 2021, BMC Bioinformatics
  • "Epstein-Barr Virus Epitope-Major Histocompatibility Complex Interaction Combined with Convergent Recombination Drives Selection of Diverse T Cell Receptor α and β Repertoires," 2020, mBio
  • "Identification of CD8 T-cell dysfunction associated with symptoms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID and treatment with a nebulized antioxidant/anti-pathogen agent in a retrospective case series," 2023, Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health
  • "T cells in the brain enhance neonatal mortality during peripheral LCMV infection," 2021, PLoS Pathogens

Their network of frequent collaborators includes researchers with whom they have coauthored multiple papers, such as:

  • Anna Gil
  • Dario Ghersi
  • Nuray Aslan
  • Katherine Luzuriaga
  • Larisa Kamga

Best Publications

  • Natural killer cells act as rheostats modulating antiviral T cells

    Stephen N. Waggoner;Markus Cornberg;Liisa K. Selin;Raymond M. Welsh

  • A small jab – a big effect: nonspecific immunomodulation by vaccines

    Christine S. Benn;Mihai G. Netea;Liisa K. Selin;Peter Aaby

  • No one is naive: the significance of heterologous T-cell immunity

    Raymond M. Welsh;Liisa K. Selin

  • Cross-reactivities in memory cytotoxic T lymphocyte recognition of heterologous viruses

    Liisa K. Selin;Sharon R. Nahill;Raymond M. Welsh

  • Heterologous immunity between viruses

    Raymond M. Welsh;Jenny Wun-Yue Che;Michael A. Brehm;Liisa K. Selin

  • Protective Heterologous Antiviral Immunity and Enhanced Immunopathogenesis Mediated by Memory T Cell Populations

    Liisa K. Selin;Steven Michael Varga;Iris C. Wong;Raymond M. Welsh

  • Attrition of T Cell Memory: Selective Loss of LCMV Epitope–Specific Memory CD8 T Cells following Infections with Heterologous Viruses

    Liisa K. Selin;Meei-Yun Lin;Kristy A. Kraemer;Drew M. Pardoll

  • Memory CD8+ T cells in heterologous antiviral immunity and immunopathology in the lung.

    Hong D. Chen;Armando E. Fraire;Isabelle Joris;Michael A. Brehm

  • T cell immunodominance and maintenance of memory regulated by unexpectedly cross-reactive pathogens

    Michael A. Brehm;Amelia K. Pinto;Amelia K. Pinto;Keith A. Daniels;Jonathan P. Schneck

  • Immunological memory to viral infections.

    Raymond M. Welsh;Liisa K. Selin;Eva Szomolanyi-Tsuda

  • REDUCTION OF OTHERWISE REMARKABLY STABLE VIRUS-SPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE MEMORY BY HETEROLOGOUS VIRAL INFECTIONS

    Liisa K. Selin;Kristin Vergilis;Raymond M. Welsh;Sharon R. Nahill

  • Memory of mice and men: CD8+ T-cell cross-reactivity and heterologous immunity.

    Liisa K. Selin;Michael A. Brehm;Yuri N. Naumov;Markus Cornberg

  • Cross-reactive influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cells contribute to lymphoproliferation in Epstein-Barr virus-associated infectious mononucleosis.

    Shalyn Catherine Clute;Levi B. Watkin;Markus Cornberg;Yuri N. Naumov

  • Peripheral blood gamma-delta T cells lyse fresh human brain-derived oligodendrocytes.

    Mark S. Freedman;Theodora C. G. Ruijs;Liisa K. Selin;Jack P. Antel

  • Narrowed TCR repertoire and viral escape as a consequence of heterologous immunity

    Markus Cornberg;Alex T. Chen;Lee A. Wilkinson;Michael A. Brehm

  • Innate immunity to viruses: control of vaccinia virus infection by gamma delta T cells.

    Liisa K. Selin;Paul A. Santolucito;Amelia K. Pinto;Eva Szomolanyi-Tsuda

  • Private specificities of CD8 T cell responses control patterns of heterologous immunity

    Sung-Kwon Kim;Markus Cornberg;Xiaoting Z. Wang;Hong D. Chen

  • CD8 memory T cells: cross-reactivity and heterologous immunity

    Liisa K. Selin;Markus Cornberg;Michael A. Brehm;Sung Kwon Kim

  • Specific History of Heterologous Virus Infections Determines Anti-Viral Immunity and Immunopathology in the Lung

    Hong D. Chen;Armando E. Fraire;Isabelle Joris;Raymond M. Welsh

  • IFN-Induced Attrition of CD8 T Cells in the Presence or Absence of Cognate Antigen during the Early Stages of Viral Infections

    Kapil Bahl;Sung Kwon Kim;Claudia Calcagno;Claudia Calcagno;Dario Ghersi

  • Cytolytically active memory CTL present in lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus-immune mice after clearance of virus infection.

    L K Selin;R M Welsh

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond M. Welsh
Raymond M. Welsh University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Katherine Luzuriaga
Katherine Luzuriaga University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Markus Cornberg
Markus Cornberg Hannover Medical School
Michael A. Brehm
Michael A. Brehm University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
John L. Sullivan
John L. Sullivan University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Lawrence J. Stern
Lawrence J. Stern University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Steven M. Varga
Steven M. Varga University of Iowa
Christine Stabell Benn
Christine Stabell Benn University of Southern Denmark
Juan Carlos de la Torre
Juan Carlos de la Torre Scripps Research Institute
Peter Aaby
Peter Aaby University of Southern Denmark

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