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  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Polly Matzinger is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on immunology and microbiology, with 11 publications in this area. Additional fields include medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Subfields of study include immunology, genetics, molecular biology, epidemiology, and modeling and simulation.

The main research topics Polly Matzinger has addressed include:

  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research

Among frequently published venues where Polly Matzinger has contributed are:

  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Immunity
  • Cancer Research Communications
  • ImmunoHorizons

Frequent co-authors include Zachary M. Earley, Wioletta Lisicka, Joseph Sifakis, Raúl Aguirre-Gamboa, and Anita Kowalczyk, each collaborating with Matzinger on multiple publications.

Selected recent papers by Polly Matzinger are:

  • "Strong impact of closing schools, closing bars and wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from a simple and revealing analysis," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Autoimmunity: Are we asking the right question?", 2022, Frontiers in Immunology

Other notable publications in which Matzinger has contributed or been mentioned include:

  • "GATA4 controls regionalization of tissue immunity and commensal-driven immunopathology," 2023, Immunity
  • "Editorial: DAMPs Across the Tree of Life," 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • "Neoantigen Presentation and IFNγ Signaling on the Same Tumor-associated Macrophage are Necessary for CD4 T Cell-mediated Antitumor Activity in Mice," 2022, Cancer Research Communications

Polly Matzinger holds membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Best Publications

  • The Danger Model: A Renewed Sense of Self

    Polly Matzinger

  • Tolerance, danger, and the extended family.

    Polly Matzinger

  • A conditioned dendritic cell can be a temporal bridge between a CD4 + T-helper and a T-killer cell

    John Paul Ridge;Francesca Di Rosa;Francesca Di Rosa;Polly Matzinger

  • Natural adjuvants: Endogenous activators of dendritic cells

    Stefania Gallucci;Martijn Lolkema;Polly Matzinger

  • Danger signals: SOS to the immune system.

    Stefania Gallucci;Polly Matzinger

  • Hydrophobicity: an ancient damage-associated molecular pattern that initiates innate immune responses

    Seung Yong Seong;Polly Matzinger

  • An Innate Sense of Danger

    Polly Matzinger

  • Neonatal Tolerance Revisited: Turning on Newborn T Cells with Dendritic Cells

    John Paul Ridge;Ephraim J. Fuchs;Polly Matzinger

  • The JAM test A simple assay for DNA fragmentation and cell death

    Polly Matzinger

  • B Cells Turn Off Virgin But Not Memory T Cells

    Ephraim J. Fuchs;Polly Matzinger

  • Friendly and dangerous signals: is the tissue in control?

    Polly Matzinger

  • CD4 cells can be more efficient at tumor rejection than CD8 cells.

    Ainhoa Perez-Diez;Nathalie T. Joncker;Kyungho Choi;William F. N. Chan

  • Ly6Chi Monocytes Provide a Link between Antibiotic-Induced Changes in Gut Microbiota and Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis

    Luisa Möhle;Daniele Mattei;Markus M. Heimesaat;Stefan Bereswill

  • Tissue-based class control: the other side of tolerance.

    Polly Matzinger;Tirumalai Kamala

  • Activation events during thymic selection.

    Albert Bendelac;Polly Matzinger;Robert A. Seder;William E. Paul

  • Successful T cell priming in B cell-deficient mice.

    M M Epstein;F Di Rosa;D Jankovic;A Sher

  • Is cancer dangerous to the immune system

    Ephraim J. Fuchs;Polly Matzinger

  • Crosstalk between B lymphocytes, microbiota and the intestinal epithelium governs immunity versus metabolism in the gut

    Natalia Shulzhenko;Andrey Morgun;Andrey Morgun;William Hsiao;Michele Battle

  • Gamma chain required for naïve CD4+ T cell survival but not for antigen proliferation.

    O Lantz;I Grandjean;P Matzinger;J P Di Santo

  • Uncovering effects of antibiotics on the host and microbiota using transkingdom gene networks

    Andrey Morgun;Amiran Dzutsev;Xiaoxi Dong;Renee L Greer

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Lantz
Olivier Lantz Institute Curie
Ephraim J. Fuchs
Ephraim J. Fuchs Johns Hopkins University
Peter S. Heeger
Peter S. Heeger Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bernard Malissen
Bernard Malissen Aix-Marseille University
Kathy D. McCoy
Kathy D. McCoy University of Calgary
Peter C. Doherty
Peter C. Doherty University of Melbourne
David H. Munn
David H. Munn Augusta University
Benedikt M. Kessler
Benedikt M. Kessler University of Oxford
Oksana Gavrilova
Oksana Gavrilova National Institutes of Health
Richard M. Ransohoff
Richard M. Ransohoff Harvard University

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