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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lynn W. Enquist is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions spanning various subfields including Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, and Neurology.

Their work covers several main topics such as Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Zoonotic diseases and public health, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Vector-borne infectious diseases, Cellular transport and secretion, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Enquist include:

  • Post-viral effects of COVID-19 in the olfactory system and their implications, 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • The Neuropathic Itch Caused by Pseudorabies Virus, 2020, Pathogens
  • A distinct hypothalamus-to-β cell circuit modulates insulin secretion, 2022, Cell Metabolism
  • A kinesin-3 recruitment complex facilitates axonal sorting of enveloped alpha herpesvirus capsids, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • The Potential Role of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 and Neuroinflammation in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease, 2021, Frontiers in Neurology

Frequent collaborators include Terence S. Dermody, James C. Alwine, Arturo Casadevall, Felicia Goodrum, and Orkide Ö. Koyuncu, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the virology and infectious disease research communities.

Their research is regularly published in well-known venues such as the Journal of Virology, Annual Review of Virology, mBio, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and PLoS Pathogens.

Recognition for Lynn W. Enquist's contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Experiments With Gene Fusions

    Thomas J. Silhavy;Michael L. Berman;L. W. Enquist

  • Principles of Virology, Volume 2: Pathogenesis and Control

    S. J. Flint;V. R. Racaniello;L. W. Enquist;A. M. Skalka

  • Virus Infections in the Nervous System

    Orkide O. Koyuncu;Ian B. Hogue;Lynn W. Enquist

  • EK2 derivatives of bacteriophage lambda useful in the cloning of DNA from higher organisms: the lambdagtWES system

    P. Leder;D. Tiemeier;Lynn William Enquist

  • Olfactory Inputs to Hypothalamic Neurons Controlling Reproduction and Fertility

    Hayan Yoon;Lynn William Enquist;Catherine Dulac

  • Virus-assisted mapping of neural inputs to a feeding center in the hypothalamus.

    Jeff DeFalco;Mark Tomishima;Hongyan Liu;Connie Zhao

  • Subversion of the actin cytoskeleton during viral infection

    Matthew P. Taylor;Orkide O. Koyuncu;Lynn W. Enquist

  • Infection and spread of alphaherpesviruses in the nervous system.

    L.W. Enquist;Paul J. Husak;Bruce W. Banfield;Greg A. Smith

  • Neurotropic properties of pseudorabies virus: uptake and transneuronal passage in the rat central nervous system.

    J. P. Card;L. Rinaman;J. S. Schwaber;R. R. Miselis

  • Pseudorabies virus infection of the rat central nervous system: ultrastructural characterization of viral replication, transport, and pathogenesis

    JP Card;L Rinaman;RB Lynn;BH Lee

  • Complete, annotated sequence of the pseudorabies virus genome.

    Barbara G. Klupp;Christoph J. Hengartner;Thomas C. Mettenleiter;Lynn W. Enquist

  • Functional integration of adult-born neurons.

    Marie Carlén;Robert M. Cassidy;Hjalmar Brismar;Gregory A. Smith

  • Nucleotide sequences of integrated Moloney sarcoma provirus long terminal repeats and their host and viral junctions

    R. Dhar;W. L. McClements;Lynn William Enquist;G. F. Vande Woude

  • In vitro packaging of a λ Dam vector containing EcoRI DNA fragments of Escherichia coli and phage P1

    Nat Sternberg;David Tiemeier;Lynn Enquist

  • Herpesviruses use bidirectional fast-axonal transport to spread in sensory neurons.

    Gregory A. Smith;Steven P. Gross;Steven P. Gross;Lynn W. Enquist

  • Pseudorabies virus expressing enhanced green fluorescent protein: A tool for in vitro electrophysiological analysis of transsynaptically labeled neurons in identified central nervous system circuits.

    Bret N. Smith;Bret N. Smith;Bruce W. Banfield;Bruce W. Banfield;Cynthia A. Smeraski;Christine L. Wilcox

  • Replication of bacteriophage λ DNA dependent on the function of host and viral genes: I. Interaction of red, gam and rec

    L.W. Enquist;A. Skalka

  • Herpes simplex virus type-1 glycoprotein D gene: nucleotide sequence and expression in Escherichia coli.

    Roger J. Watson;John H. Weis;John S. Salstrom;Lynn William Enquist

  • Construction and transposon mutagenesis in Escherichia coli of a full-length infectious clone of pseudorabies virus, an alphaherpesvirus.

    Gregory A. Smith;Lynn W. Enquist

  • Construction of a self-excisable bacterial artificial chromosome containing the human cytomegalovirus genome and mutagenesis of the diploid TRL/IRL13 gene

    Dong Yu;Gregory A. Smith;Lynn W. Enquist;Thomas Shenk

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Patrick Card
J. Patrick Card University of Pittsburgh
Ileana M. Cristea
Ileana M. Cristea Princeton University
Michael C. McAlpine
Michael C. McAlpine University of Minnesota
G. F. Vande Woude
G. F. Vande Woude National Institutes of Health
Thomas Shenk
Thomas Shenk Princeton University
Terence S. Dermody
Terence S. Dermody University of Pittsburgh
Steven P. Gross
Steven P. Gross University of California, Irvine
Daniel DiMaio
Daniel DiMaio Yale University
Brian Sauer
Brian Sauer Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Paul Keim
Paul Keim Northern Arizona University

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