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Overview

Pamela J. Fink is affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on the fields of immunology and microbiology, alongside contributions to neuroscience.

Their work spans several main topics including adipose tissue and metabolism, neurobiology and insect physiology research, stress responses and cortisol, T-cell and B-cell immunology, immune cell function and interaction, and immunotherapy and immune responses.

Fink's publications have appeared in notable scientific venues such as Frontiers in Immunology and the Annual Review of Immunology.

  • Androgen Receptors in Epithelial Cells Regulate Thymopoiesis and Recent Thymic Emigrants in Male Mice (2020, Frontiers in Immunology)
  • Exposing T Cell Secrets Inside and Outside the Thymus (2021, Annual Review of Immunology)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Anna S. Wilhelmson, Marta Lantero Rodriguez, Inger Johansson, Elin Svedlund Eriksson, and Alexandra Stubelius.

The subfields connected with their research encompass immunology, physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and behavioral neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Correlations between T-cell specificity and the structure of the antigen receptor.

    Pamela J. Fink;Louis A. Matis;David L. McElligott;Michael Bookman

  • Continued maturation of thymic emigrants in the periphery.

    Tamar E Boursalian;Jonathan Golob;David M Soper;Cristine J Cooper

  • Thymic output in aged mice

    J. Scott Hale;Tamar E. Boursalian;Gail L. Turk;Pamela J. Fink

  • Invariant chain distinguishes between the exogenous and endogenous antigen presentation pathways

    Luc Teyton;Deirdre O'Sullivan;Phillip W. Dickson;Vincent Lotteau

  • Elimination of Antigen-Presenting Cells and Autoreactive T Cells by Fas Contributes to Prevention of Autoimmunity

    Peter B. Stranges;Jessica Watson;Cristie J. Cooper;Caroline Morgane Choisy-Rossi

  • Maximal Proliferation of Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Requires Reverse Signaling through Fas Ligand

    Ivy Suzuki;Pamela J. Fink

  • The Influence of Thymus H-2 Antigens on the Specificity of Maturing Killer and Helper Cells

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  • Selection of amino acid sequences in the beta chain of the T cell antigen receptor

    Stephen M. Hedrick;Isaac Engel;David L. McElligott;Pamela J. Fink

  • The Biology of Recent Thymic Emigrants

    Pamela J. Fink

  • Local Inflammatory Cues Regulate Differentiation and Persistence of CD8 + Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells.

    Tessa Bergsbaken;Michael J. Bevan;Pamela J. Fink

  • The dual functions of Fas ligand in the regulation of peripheral CD8+ and CD4+ T cells

    Ivy Suzuki;Pamela J. Fink

  • A New Class of Reverse Signaling Costimulators Belongs to the TNF Family

    Mingyi Sun;Pamela J. Fink

  • RAG Reexpression and DNA Recombination at T Cell Receptor Loci in Peripheral CD4+ T Cells

    Catherine J McMahan;Pamela J Fink

  • Fas ligand costimulates the in vivo proliferation of CD8+ T cells.

    Ivy Suzuki;Stefan Martin;Tamar E. Boursalian;Courtney Beers

  • Cutting Edge: Spontaneous Development of IL-17–Producing γδ T Cells in the Thymus Occurs via a TGF-β1–Dependent Mechanism

    Jeong Su Do;Pamela J. Fink;Lily Li;Lily Li;Rosanne Spolski

  • Identification of conserved T cell receptor CDR3 residues contacting known exposed peptide side chains from a major histocompatibility complex class I‐bound determinant

    Janice M. Kelly;Sandra J. Sterry;Stephen Cose;Stephen J. Turner

  • A Major Role for Bim in Regulatory T Cell Homeostasis

    Claire A. Chougnet;Pulak Tripathi;Celine S. Lages;Jana Raynor

  • Positive Selection of Thymocytes

    Pamela J. Fink;Michael J. Bevan

  • Thymus-autonomous T cell development in the absence of progenitor import.

    Vera C. Martins;Eliana Ruggiero;Susan M. Schlenner;Vikas Madan

  • ICOS and Bcl6-dependent pathways maintain a CD4 T cell population with memory-like properties during tuberculosis

    Albanus O. Moguche;Albanus O. Moguche;Shahin Shafiani;Corey Clemons;Corey Clemons;Ryan P. Larson;Ryan P. Larson

  • The CD8 response on autopilot

    Michael J. Bevan;Pamela J. Fink

  • The Ribosomal Protein Rpl22 Controls Ribosome Composition by Directly Repressing Expression of Its Own Paralog, Rpl22l1

    Monique N. O'Leary;Katherine H. Schreiber;Katherine H. Schreiber;Yong Zhang;Anne Cécile E. Duc

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Bevan
Michael J. Bevan University of Washington
Brian K. Kennedy
Brian K. Kennedy National University of Singapore
Catherine A. Blish
Catherine A. Blish Stanford University
Warren J. Leonard
Warren J. Leonard National Institutes of Health
Francis R. Carbone
Francis R. Carbone University of Melbourne
Andrew G. Farr
Andrew G. Farr University of Washington
Rosanne Spolski
Rosanne Spolski National Institutes of Health
John J. Letterio
John J. Letterio Case Western Reserve University
Shawn J. Skerrett
Shawn J. Skerrett University of Washington
Jeffrey J. Delrow
Jeffrey J. Delrow Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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