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Overview

Louis J. Picker is affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine. These areas are supported by a strong focus on several subfields, notably Immunology, Epidemiology, Virology, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Biology.

The research topics covered by Louis J. Picker include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology

Their recent notable publications are:

  • Sequence diversity analyses of an improved rhesus macaque genome enhance its biomedical utility, 2020, Science
  • Ultra-low Dose Aerosol Infection of Mice with Mycobacterium tuberculosis More Closely Models Human Tuberculosis, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • The Identity of Human Tissue-Emigrant CD8+ T Cells, 2020, Cell
  • TGFβ restricts expansion, survival, and function of T cells within the tuberculous granuloma, 2021, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Modulation of MHC-E transport by viral decoy ligands is required for RhCMV/SIV vaccine efficacy, 2021, Science

Among frequent co-authors, Louis J. Picker has collaborated extensively with Scott G. Hansen, Michael K. Axthelm, Klaus Früh, David Morrow, and Daniel Malouli. These collaborations have supported a substantial body of scientific work likely contributing to the fields related to immunology and virology.

Louis J. Picker's most common publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of Immunology, PLoS Pathogens, Science Immunology, and Frontiers in Immunology. These venues reflect a consistent presence in reputable journals within biomedical and immunological research.

Best Publications

  • Microbial translocation is a cause of systemic immune activation in chronic HIV infection

    Jason M. Brenchley;David A. Price;Timothy W. Schacker;Tedi E. Asher

  • Lymphocyte homing and homeostasis.

    Eugene C. Butcher;Louis J. Picker

  • Changes in thymic function with age and during the treatment of HIV infection

    Daniel C. Douek;Richard D. McFarland;Phillip H. Keiser;Earl A. Gage

  • Broadly targeted human cytomegalovirus-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells dominate the memory compartments of exposed subjects

    Andrew W. Sylwester;Bridget L. Mitchell;John B. Edgar;Cara Taormina

  • Profound early control of highly pathogenic SIV by an effector memory T-cell vaccine

    Scott G. Hansen;Julia C. Ford;Matthew S. Lewis;Abigail B. Ventura

  • ELAM-1 is an adhesion molecule for skin-homing T cells

    Louis J. Picker;Louis J. Picker;Louis J. Picker;Takashi K. Kishimoto;Takashi K. Kishimoto;C. Wayne Smith;R. Aaron Warnock;R. Aaron Warnock

  • HIV-1-specific CD4+ T cells are detectable in most individuals with active HIV-1 infection, but decline with prolonged viral suppression.

    Christine J. Pitcher;Claudia Quittner;Dolores M. Peterson;Mark Connors

  • Physiological and molecular mechanisms of lymphocyte homing.

    Louis J. Picker;Eugene C. Butcher;Eugene C. Butcher

  • Analysis of total human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific CD4(+) and CD8(+) T-cell responses: relationship to viral load in untreated HIV infection

    Michael R. Betts;David R. Ambrozak;Daniel C. Douek;Sebastian Bonhoeffer

  • T Cell Dynamics in HIV-1 Infection*

    Daniel C. Douek;Louis J. Picker;Richard A. Koup

  • Determination of antigen-specific memory/effector CD4+ T cell frequencies by flow cytometry: evidence for a novel, antigen-specific homeostatic mechanism in HIV-associated immunodeficiency.

    Shar L. Waldrop;Christine J. Pitcher;Dolores M. Peterson;Vernon C. Maino

  • The neutrophil selectin LECAM-1 presents carbohydrate ligands to the vascular selectins ELAM-1 and GMP-140

    Louis J. Picker;R.Aaron Warnock;R.Aaron Warnock;Alan R. Burns;Claire M. Doerschuk;Claire M. Doerschuk

  • Effector memory T cell responses are associated with protection of rhesus monkeys from mucosal simian immunodeficiency virus challenge

    Scott G Hansen;Cassandra Vieville;Nathan Whizin;Lia Coyne-Johnson

  • A human lymphocyte homing receptor, the Hermes antigen, is related to cartilage proteoglycan core and link proteins

    Leslie A. Goldstein;Leslie A. Goldstein;David F.H. Zhou;David F.H. Zhou;Louis J. Picker;Louis J. Picker;Catherine N. Minty;Catherine N. Minty

  • A unique phenotype of skin-associated lymphocytes in humans. Preferential expression of the HECA-452 epitope by benign and malignant T cells at cutaneous sites.

    L. J. Picker;S. A. Michie;L. S. Rott;E. C. Butcher

  • Immune clearance of highly pathogenic SIV infection

    Scott G. Hansen;Michael Piatak;Abigail B. Ventura;Colette M. Hughes

  • The cutaneous lymphocyte antigen is a skin lymphocyte homing receptor for the vascular lectin endothelial cell-leukocyte adhesion molecule 1

    E L Berg;T Yoshino;L S Rott;M K Robinson

  • Direct demonstration of cytokine synthesis heterogeneity among human memory/effector T cells by flow cytometry.

    Louis J. Picker;Manoj K. Singh;Zoran Zdraveski;John R. Treer

  • Pathogenesis of HIV infection: what the virus spares is as important as what it destroys.

    Zvi Grossman;Martin Meier-Schellersheim;William E Paul;Louis J Picker

  • CD4+ T‐cell depletion in HIV infection: mechanisms of immunological failure

    Afam A. Okoye;Louis J. Picker

  • Human lymphocytes bearing T cell receptor gamma/delta are phenotypically diverse and evenly distributed throughout the lymphoid system.

    V Groh;S Porcelli;M Fabbi;L L Lanier

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael K. Axthelm
Michael K. Axthelm Oregon National Primate Research Center
Klaus Früh
Klaus Früh Oregon Health & Science University
Jay A. Nelson
Jay A. Nelson Oregon Health & Science University
Eugene C. Butcher
Eugene C. Butcher Stanford University
Vernon C. Maino
Vernon C. Maino Becton Dickinson (United States)
Jonah B. Sacha
Jonah B. Sacha Oregon Health & Science University
Michael Piatak
Michael Piatak Leidos (United States)
Roger A. Warnke
Roger A. Warnke Stanford University
David I. Watkins
David I. Watkins George Washington University
Daniel C. Douek
Daniel C. Douek National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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