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Megan K. Levings is a researcher affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their work spans several areas within the biological sciences, with a focus on immunology and molecular biology as well as clinical medicine.

Their research output encompasses a significant number of publications in fields such as Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields including Immunology, Oncology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Surgery.

The main topics covered in their body of work involve immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, CAR-T cell therapy research, diabetes and associated disorders, pancreatic function and diabetes, immunotherapy and immune responses, as well as CRISPR and genetic engineering.

The researcher has authored papers published in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Immunology
  • Transplantation
  • Cytotherapy
  • American Journal of Transplantation

Recent papers by Megan K. Levings include:

  • Implanted pluripotent stem-cell-derived pancreatic endoderm cells secrete glucose-responsive C-peptide in patients with type 1 diabetes, 2021, Cell stem cell
  • Functional effects of chimeric antigen receptor co-receptor signaling domains in human regulatory T cells, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Donor-specific chimeric antigen receptor Tregs limit rejection in naive but not sensitized allograft recipients, 2020, American Journal of Transplantation
  • T-cell activation-induced marker assays in health and disease, 2023, Immunology and Cell Biology
  • Helios is a marker, not a driver, of human Treg stability, 2021, European Journal of Immunology

Megan K. Levings has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Majid Mojibian
  • Laura Cook
  • Vivian Fung
  • Jana Gillies
  • Sabine Ivison

Best Publications

  • Interleukin-10-secreting type 1 regulatory T cells in rodents and humans.

    Maria Grazia Roncarolo;Silvia Gregori;Manuela Battaglia;Rosa Bacchetta

  • Human Cd25+Cd4+ T Regulatory Cells Suppress Naive and Memory T Cell Proliferation and Can Be Expanded in Vitro without Loss of Function

    Megan K. Levings;Romina Sangregorio;Maria Grazia Roncarolo

  • Type 1 T regulatory cells.

    Maria Grazia Roncarolo;Rosa Bacchetta;Claudio Bordignon;Satwant Narula

  • Activation-induced FOXP3 in human T effector cells does not suppress proliferation or cytokine production

    Sarah E. Allan;Sarah Q. Crome;Natasha K. Crellin;Laura Passerini

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Mübeccel Akdis

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (second edition)

    Andrea Cossarizza;Hyun Dong Chang;Andreas Radbruch;Andreas Acs

  • IFN-α and IL-10 Induce the Differentiation of Human Type 1 T Regulatory Cells

    Megan K. Levings;Romina Sangregorio;Francesca Galbiati;Stefania Squadrone

  • Differentiation of T Regulatory Cells by Immature Dendritic Cells

    Maria Grazia Roncarolo;Megan K. Levings;Catia Traversari

  • Differentiation of Tr1 cells by immature dendritic cells requires IL-10 but not CD25+CD4+ Tr cells.

    Megan K. Levings;Silvia Gregori;Eleonora Tresoldi;Sabrina Cazzaniga

  • Defective regulatory and effector T cell functions in patients with FOXP3 mutations

    Rosa Bacchetta;Laura Passerini;Eleonora Gambineri;Minyue Dai

  • The role of 2 FOXP3 isoforms in the generation of human CD4+ Tregs

    Sarah E. Allan;Laura Passerini;Rosa Bacchetta;Natasha Crellin

  • Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (third edition)

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  • The Role of IL-10 and TGF-β in the Differentiation and Effector Function of T Regulatory Cells

    Megan K. Levings;Rosa Bacchetta;Ute Schulz;Maria Grazia Roncarolo

  • Human CD25+CD4+ T Suppressor Cell Clones Produce Transforming Growth Factor β, but not Interleukin 10, and Are Distinct from Type 1 T Regulatory Cells

    Megan K. Levings;Romina Sangregorio;Claudia Sartirana;Anna Lisa Moschin

  • Human CD4+ T cells express TLR5 and its ligand flagellin enhances the suppressive capacity and expression of FOXP3 in CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cells.

    Natasha K. Crellin;Rosa V. Garcia;Omeed Hadisfar;Sarah E. Allan

  • Alloantigen-specific regulatory T cells generated with a chimeric antigen receptor

    Katherine G. MacDonald;Romy E. Hoeppli;Qing Huang;Jana Gillies

  • The role of different subsets of T regulatory cells in controlling autoimmunity.

    Maria Grazia Roncarolo;Megan K. Levings

  • CD161 is a marker of all human IL-17-producing T-cell subsets and is induced by RORC

    Laura Maggi;Veronica Santarlasci;Manuela Capone;Anna Peired

  • Translational mini-review series on Th17 cells: function and regulation of human T helper 17 cells in health and disease.

    S. Q. Crome;A. Y. Wang;M. K. Levings

  • Leishmania exosomes modulate innate and adaptive immune responses through effects on monocytes and dendritic cells.

    Judith Maxwell Silverman;Joachim Clos;Eva Horakova;Adele Y. Wang

  • Altered activation of AKT is required for the suppressive function of human CD4+CD25+ T regulatory cells.

    Natasha K. Crellin;Rosa V. Garcia;Megan K. Levings

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Grazia Roncarolo
Maria Grazia Roncarolo Stanford University
Rosa Bacchetta
Rosa Bacchetta Stanford University
Ciriaco A. Piccirillo
Ciriaco A. Piccirillo McGill University Health Centre
Silvia Gregori
Silvia Gregori Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Megan Sykes
Megan Sykes Columbia University
John D. Rioux
John D. Rioux University of Montreal
Shimon Sakaguchi
Shimon Sakaguchi Osaka University
Giovanna Lombardi
Giovanna Lombardi King's College London
Gerald M. Devins
Gerald M. Devins Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Stephanie J. Lee
Stephanie J. Lee Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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