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Overview

Luis B. Barreiro is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work encompasses various subfields including Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, and Virology.

Their research topics cover a range of scientific subjects, including:

  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • interferon and immune responses
  • Gut microbiota and health

Barreiro has contributed to multiple recent papers on immunity and related processes. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Defining trained immunity and its role in health and disease," published in 2020 in Nature reviews. Immunology
  • "Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19," published in 2020 in Immunity
  • "Trained immunity, tolerance, priming and differentiation: distinct immunological processes," published in 2020 in Nature Immunology
  • "M. tuberculosis Reprograms Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Limit Myelopoiesis and Impair Trained Immunity," published in 2020 in Cell
  • "Gut microbiome heritability is nearly universal but environmentally contingent," published in 2021 in Science

Their frequent collaborators include Maziar Divangahi, Vania Yotova, Renata Sindeaux, Anne Dumaine, and Katherine A Aracena.

Barreiro's work has appeared primarily in the following publication venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Immunology
  • eLife
  • Immunity

Best Publications

  • Defining trained immunity and its role in health and disease

    Mihai G. Netea;Mihai G. Netea;Jorge Domínguez-Andrés;Luis B. Barreiro;Luis B. Barreiro;Triantafyllos Chavakis;Triantafyllos Chavakis

  • TLR3 deficiency in patients with herpes simplex encephalitis.

    Shen Ying Zhang;Shen Ying Zhang;Emmanuelle Jouanguy;Emmanuelle Jouanguy;Sophie Ugolini;Asma Smahi

  • BCG Educates Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Generate Protective Innate Immunity against Tuberculosis

    Eva Kaufmann;Joaquin Sanz;Jonathan L. Dunn;Nargis Khan

  • Natural selection has driven population differentiation in modern humans

    Luis B Barreiro;Guillaume Laval;Hélène Quach;Etienne Patin

  • Integration of genetic and immunological insights into a model of celiac disease pathogenesis.

    Valérie Abadie;Ludvig M Sollid;Luis B Barreiro;Bana Jabri

  • From evolutionary genetics to human immunology: how selection shapes host defence genes

    Luis B. Barreiro;Luis B. Barreiro;Lluís Quintana-Murci

  • Trained immunity, tolerance, priming and differentiation: distinct immunological processes.

    Maziar Divangahi;Peter Aaby;Shabaana A. Khader;Luis B. Barreiro

  • Genetic Ancestry and Natural Selection Drive Population Differences in Immune Responses to Pathogens

    Yohann Nédélec;Yohann Nédélec;Joaquín Sanz;Joaquín Sanz;Golshid Baharian;Golshid Baharian;Zachary A. Szpiech

  • Evolutionary Dynamics of Human Toll-Like Receptors and Their Different Contributions to Host Defense

    Luis B. Barreiro;Luis B. Barreiro;Meriem Ben-Ali;Hélène Quach;Guillaume Laval

  • Microbial signals drive pre-leukaemic myeloproliferation in a Tet2-deficient host.

    Marlies Meisel;Reinhard Hinterleitner;Alain Pacis;Li Chen

  • Social environment is associated with gene regulatory variation in the rhesus macaque immune system

    Jenny Tung;Luis B. Barreiro;Luis B. Barreiro;Zachary P. Johnson;Kasper D. Hansen

  • Seasonal variation in human gut microbiome composition.

    Emily R. Davenport;Orna Mizrahi-Man;Katelyn Michelini;Luis B. Barreiro

  • Social status alters immune regulation and response to infection in macaques

    Noah Snyder-Mackler;Joaquín Sanz;Joaquín Sanz;Jordan N. Kohn;Jessica F. Brinkworth;Jessica F. Brinkworth

  • Deciphering the genetic architecture of variation in the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

    Luis B. Barreiro;Ludovic Tailleux;Athma A. Pai;Brigitte Gicquel

  • Promoter Variation in the DC-SIGN–Encoding Gene CD209 Is Associated with Tuberculosis

    Luis B Barreiro;Olivier Neyrolles;Chantal L Babb;Ludovic Tailleux

  • Genome-Wide Association Studies of the Human Gut Microbiota.

    Emily R. Davenport;Darren A. Cusanovich;Katelyn Michelini;Luis B. Barreiro

  • Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

    Etienne Patin;Etienne Patin;Marie Lopez;Marie Lopez;Rebecca Grollemund;Rebecca Grollemund;Paul Verdu

  • Bacterial infection remodels the DNA methylation landscape of human dendritic cells

    Alain Pacis;Alain Pacis;Ludovic Tailleux;Alexander M. Morin;John Lambourne

  • Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and pygmy hunter-gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set.

    Etienne Patin;Guillaume Laval;Luis B. Barreiro;Antonio Salas

  • The macrophage IRF8/IRF1 regulome is required for protection against infections and is associated with chronic inflammation.

    David Langlais;Luis B. Barreiro;Philippe Gros

Frequent Co-Authors

Lluis Quintana-Murci
Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur
Etienne Patin
Etienne Patin Institut Pasteur
Bana Jabri
Bana Jabri University of Chicago
Brigitte Gicquel
Brigitte Gicquel Institut Pasteur
Yoav Gilad
Yoav Gilad University of Chicago
Laurent Abel
Laurent Abel Université Paris Cité
Olivier Neyrolles
Olivier Neyrolles Paul Sabatier University
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
Erwin Schurr
Erwin Schurr McGill University Health Centre
Maziar Divangahi
Maziar Divangahi McGill University Health Centre

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