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Overview

Muzlifah Haniffa is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily focusing on medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and immunology and microbiology. Their work integrates both fundamental and applied aspects within these disciplines.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of immunology, molecular biology, oncology, infectious diseases, and cancer research. Their research topics highlight specialized focus areas including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, immune cell function and interaction, T-cell and B-cell immunology, CAR-T cell therapy research, cell image analysis techniques, immune cells in cancer, and IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Muzlifah Haniffa are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues, 2020, Cell
  • Single-cell multi-omics analysis of the immune response in COVID-19, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • A cell atlas of human thymic development defines T cell repertoire formation, 2020, Science
  • Cells of the human intestinal tract mapped across space and time, 2021, Nature
  • Developmental cell programs are co-opted in inflammatory skin disease, 2021, Science

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Muzlifah Haniffa include:

  • Sarah A. Teichmann
  • Emily Stephenson
  • Kerstin B. Meyer
  • Gary Reynolds
  • Laura Jardine

Regarding publication venues, Muzlifah Haniffa has published most notably in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Single-cell RNA-seq reveals new types of human blood dendritic cells, monocytes, and progenitors.

    Alexandra Chloé Villani;Alexandra Chloé Villani;Rahul Satija;Rahul Satija;Gary Reynolds;Siranush Sarkizova

  • SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 Is an Interferon-Stimulated Gene in Human Airway Epithelial Cells and Is Detected in Specific Cell Subsets across Tissues.

    Carly G.K. Ziegler;Samuel J. Allon;Sarah K. Nyquist;Ian M. Mbano

  • Single-cell reconstruction of the early maternal–fetal interface in humans

    Roser Vento-Tormo;Roser Vento-Tormo;Mirjana Efremova;Rachel A. Botting;Margherita Y. Turco

  • The Human Cell Atlas

    Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Ido Amit

  • IRF4 Transcription Factor-Dependent CD11b+ Dendritic Cells in Human and Mouse Control Mucosal IL-17 Cytokine Responses

    Andreas Schlitzer;Naomi McGovern;Pearline Teo;Teresa Zelante

  • Human Tissues Contain CD141hi Cross-Presenting Dendritic Cells with Functional Homology to Mouse CD103+ Nonlymphoid Dendritic Cells

    Muzlifah Haniffa;Muzlifah Haniffa;Amanda Shin;Venetia Bigley;Naomi McGovern

  • Comparison of gene expression profiles between human and mouse monocyte subsets

    Molly A. Ingersoll;Rainer Spanbroek;Claudio Lottaz;Emmanuel L. Gautier

  • A cell atlas of human thymic development defines T cell repertoire formation.

    Jong-Eun Park;Rachel A. Botting;Cecilia Domínguez Conde;Dorin-Mirel Popescu

  • Single-cell multi-omics analysis of the immune response in COVID-19.

    Emily Stephenson;Gary Reynolds;Rachel A Botting;Fernando J Calero-Nieto

  • Human dendritic cell subsets.

    Matthew Collin;Naomi McGovern;Muzlifah Haniffa

  • IRF8 mutations and human dendritic-cell immunodeficiency.

    Sophie Hambleton;Sandra Salem;Jacinta Bustamante;Venetia Bigley

  • Cells of the human intestinal tract mapped across space and time.

    Rasa Elmentaite;Natsuhiko Kumasaka;Kenny Roberts;Aaron Fleming

  • Decoding human fetal liver haematopoiesis

    Dorin-Mirel Popescu;Rachel A. Botting;Emily Stephenson;Kile Green

  • Mapping the human DC lineage through the integration of high-dimensional techniques

    Peter See;Charles-Antoine Dutertre;Charles-Antoine Dutertre;Jinmiao Chen;Patrick Günther

  • Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Regulatory T Cells Reveals Trajectories of Tissue Adaptation.

    Ricardo J. Miragaia;Tomás Gomes;Agnieszka Chomka;Laura Jardine

  • Local and systemic responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adults

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  • Exome sequencing identifies GATA-2 mutation as the cause of dendritic cell, monocyte, B and NK lymphoid deficiency

    Rachel Emma Dickinson;Helen Griffin;Venetia Bigley;Louise N. Reynard

  • Developmental cell programs are co-opted in inflammatory skin disease

    Gary Reynolds;Peter Vegh;James Fletcher;Elizabeth F. M. Poyner

  • Mesenchymal stem cells: the fibroblasts' new clothes?

    Muzlifah A. Haniffa;Matthew P. Collin;Christopher D. Buckley;Francesco Dazzi

  • Adult Human Fibroblasts Are Potent Immunoregulatory Cells and Functionally Equivalent to Mesenchymal Stem Cells

    Muzlifah A. Haniffa;Xiao-Nong Wang;Udo Holtick;Michelle Rae

  • The human syndrome of dendritic cell, monocyte, B and NK lymphoid deficiency

    Venetia Bigley;Muzlifah Haniffa;Sergei Doulatov;Xiao-Nong Wang

  • Spatiotemporal immune zonation of the human kidney

    Benjamin J. Stewart;Benjamin J. Stewart;Benjamin J. Stewart;John R. Ferdinand;Matthew D. Young;Thomas J. Mitchell;Thomas J. Mitchell;Thomas J. Mitchell

  • Comparison of gene expression profiles between human and mouse monocyte subsets (Blood (2010) 115, 3 (e10-e19))

    M Ingersoll;R Spanbroek;C Lottaz;E Gautier

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Collin
Matthew Collin Newcastle University
Sarah A. Teichmann
Sarah A. Teichmann University of Cambridge
Florent Ginhoux
Florent Ginhoux Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Sam Behjati
Sam Behjati Wellcome Sanger Institute
Menna R. Clatworthy
Menna R. Clatworthy University of Cambridge
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Catharien M. U. Hilkens
Catharien M. U. Hilkens Newcastle University
Michael Poidinger
Michael Poidinger Murdoch Children's Research Institute
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
Antonio Bertoletti
Antonio Bertoletti Duke NUS Graduate Medical School

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