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Martin Guilliams

Martin Guilliams

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Immunology

D-Index
62
Citations
32025
World Ranking
3085
National Ranking
44

Overview

Martin Guilliams is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has established a research profile focused primarily on immunology and molecular biology. Their work explores various aspects of immune cell biology with an emphasis on macrophages and their interactions within different tissue niches.

Guilliams's research spans several main fields of study, including Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these broader disciplines, their contributions are notable in the subfields of Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Neurology.

The main topics addressed in Guilliams's research include:

  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Among Guilliams's recent papers are:

  • "Spatial proteogenomics reveals distinct and evolutionarily conserved hepatic macrophage niches," 2022, Cell
  • "Establishment and Maintenance of the Macrophage Niche," 2020, Immunity
  • "Liver macrophages in health and disease," 2022, Immunity

Guilliams has frequently published in journals such as Immunity, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Immunology, Cell Reports, and Journal of Hepatology.

These collaborators have contributed substantially to their research output:

  • Charlotte L. Scott
  • Liesbet Martens
  • Yvan Saeys
  • Bart N. Lambrecht
  • Tinne Thoné

Best Publications

  • Fate Mapping Reveals Origins and Dynamics of Monocytes and Tissue Macrophages under Homeostasis

    Simon Yona;Ki Wook Kim;Yochai Wolf;Alexander Mildner

  • Dendritic cells, monocytes and macrophages: a unified nomenclature based on ontogeny

    Martin Guilliams;Florent Ginhoux;Claudia Jakubzick;Shalin H. Naik

  • Tissue-Resident Macrophage Ontogeny and Homeostasis.

    Florent Ginhoux;Florent Ginhoux;Martin Guilliams

  • Identification of discrete tumor-induced myeloid-derived suppressor cell subpopulations with distinct T cell–suppressive activity

    Kiavash Movahedi;Martin Guilliams;Jan Van den Bossche;Rafael Van den Bergh

  • Alveolar macrophages develop from fetal monocytes that differentiate into long-lived cells in the first week of life via GM-CSF

    Martin Guilliams;Martin Guilliams;Ismé De Kleer;Ismé De Kleer;Sandrine Henri;Sijranke Post

  • A single-cell atlas of mouse brain macrophages reveals unique transcriptional identities shaped by ontogeny and tissue environment.

    Hannah Van Hove;Liesbet Martens;Isabelle Scheyltjens;Karen De Vlaminck

  • Conventional and Monocyte-Derived CD11b+ Dendritic Cells Initiate and Maintain T Helper 2 Cell-Mediated Immunity to House Dust Mite Allergen

    Maud Plantinga;Martin Guilliams;Martin Guilliams;Manon Vanheerswynghels;Kim Deswarte

  • Resident and pro-inflammatory macrophages in the colon represent alternative context-dependent fates of the same Ly6C hi monocyte precursors

    C. C. Bain;C. L. Scott;Heli Uronen-Hansson;Sigurdur Gudjonsson

  • Developmental and Functional Heterogeneity of Monocytes.

    Martin Guilliams;Alexander Mildner;Simon Yona

  • Bone marrow-derived monocytes give rise to self-renewing and fully differentiated Kupffer cells

    Charlotte L Scott;Fang Zheng;Fang Zheng;Patrick De Baetselier;Liesbet Martens

  • Origins and Functional Specialization of Macrophages and of Conventional and Monocyte-Derived Dendritic Cells in Mouse Skin

    Samira Tamoutounour;Samira Tamoutounour;Samira Tamoutounour;Martin Guilliams;Frédéric Montanana Sanchis;Frédéric Montanana Sanchis;Frédéric Montanana Sanchis;Hong Liu

  • Unsupervised High-Dimensional Analysis Aligns Dendritic Cells across Tissues and Species.

    Martin Guilliams;Martin Guilliams;Charles-Antoine Dutertre;Charles-Antoine Dutertre;Charlotte L. Scott;Naomi McGovern

  • The function of Fcγ receptors in dendritic cells and macrophages

    Martin Guilliams;Pierre Bruhns;Yvan Saeys;Hamida Hammad

  • Yolk Sac Macrophages, Fetal Liver, and Adult Monocytes Can Colonize an Empty Niche and Develop into Functional Tissue-Resident Macrophages

    Lianne van de Laar;Wouter Saelens;Sofie De Prijck;Liesbet Martens

  • Single-cell profiling of myeloid cells in glioblastoma across species and disease stage reveals macrophage competition and specialization.

    Ana Rita Pombo Antunes;Isabelle Scheyltjens;Francesca Lodi;Julie Messiaen

  • Stellate Cells, Hepatocytes, and Endothelial Cells Imprint the Kupffer Cell Identity on Monocytes Colonizing the Liver Macrophage Niche

    Johnny Bonnardel;Wouter T’Jonck;Djoere Gaublomme;Robin Browaeys

  • Self-Maintaining Gut Macrophages Are Essential for Intestinal Homeostasis.

    Sebastiaan De Schepper;Simon Verheijden;Javier Aguilera-Lizarraga;Maria Francesca Viola

  • Long-lived self-renewing bone marrow-derived macrophages displace embryo-derived cells to inhabit adult serous cavities

    Calum C. Bain;Catherine A. Hawley;Hannah Garner;Charlotte L. Scott

  • CD64 distinguishes macrophages from dendritic cells in the gut and reveals the Th1-inducing role of mesenteric lymph node macrophages during colitis

    Samira Tamoutounour;Samira Tamoutounour;Samira Tamoutounour;Sandrine Henri;Sandrine Henri;Sandrine Henri;Hugues Lelouard;Hugues Lelouard;Hugues Lelouard;Béatrice de Bovis;Béatrice de Bovis;Béatrice de Bovis

  • CD207+ CD103+ dermal dendritic cells cross-present keratinocyte-derived antigens irrespective of the presence of Langerhans cells

    Sandrine Henri;Lionel Franz Poulin;Samira Tamoutounour;Laurence Ardouin

  • Fate mapping reveals origins and dynamics of monocytes and tissue macrophages under homeostasis [Immunity 38 (2013) 79-91]

    Simon Yona;Ki Wook Kim;Yochai Wolf;Alexander Mildner

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart N. Lambrecht
Bart N. Lambrecht Ghent University
Bernard Malissen
Bernard Malissen Aix-Marseille University
Sandrine Henri
Sandrine Henri Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy
Alain Beschin
Alain Beschin Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Yvan Saeys
Yvan Saeys Ghent University
Patrick De Baetselier
Patrick De Baetselier Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marc Dalod
Marc Dalod Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy
Hamida Hammad
Hamida Hammad Ghent University
Florent Ginhoux
Florent Ginhoux Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Simon Yona
Simon Yona Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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