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D-Index
70
Citations
25852
World Ranking
6868
National Ranking
3167

Overview

Stephen Shaw is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in immunology, microbiology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields including microbiology, molecular biology, immunology and allergy, genetics, and ecology. Shaw's research interests focus on microbial infections and disease, antimicrobial peptides and activities, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, rabies epidemiology and control, ocular infections and treatments, and astronomical observations and instrumentation.

Shaw has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Robert J. Atterbury, Bailey Secker, Laura Hobley, Adriano M. Gigante, and Mohammad A. Hadis.

Their recent publications include:

  • Pseudomonas spp. in Canine Otitis Externa, 2023, Microorganisms
  • Genomic and phenotypic characterisation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from canine otitis externa reveals high-risk sequence types identical to those found in human nosocomial infections, 2025, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Exposure to blue light reduces antimicrobial resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from dog ear infections, 2024, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Design and initial performance of the HARDWARE.astronomy Housekeeping (H.aHk) box, 2022, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI
  • Blocking cross-reactive carbohydrate determinant-specific IgE improves serum allergy testing reliability in atopic dogs, 2023, Veterinary Record

Shaw frequently publishes in venues such as Frontiers in Microbiology, Microorganisms, Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy XI, Veterinary Record, and Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery.

Best Publications

  • Human memory T lymphocytes express increased levels of three cell adhesion molecules (LFA-3, CD2, and LFA-1) and three other molecules (UCHL1, CDw29, and Pgp-1) and have enhanced IFN-gamma production.

    M E Sanders;M W Makgoba;S O Sharrow;D Stephany

  • T-cell adhesion induced by proteoglycan-immobilized cytokine MIP-1 beta.

    Yoshiya Tanaka;David H. Adams;Stefan Hubscher;Hiroyuki Hirano

  • The LFA-1 ligand ICAM-1 provides an important costimulatory signal for T cell receptor-mediated activation of resting T cells.

    G A Van Seventer;Y Shimizu;K J Horgan;S Shaw

  • Human naive and memory T cells: reinterpretation of helper-inducer and suppressor-inducer subsets

    Martin E. Sanders;Malegapuru W. Makgoba;Stephen Shaw

  • Lymphocyte interactions with endothelial cells.

    Yoji Shimizu;Walter Newman;Yoshiya Tanaka;Stephen Shaw

  • Lymph-Borne Chemokines and Other Low Molecular Weight Molecules Reach High Endothelial Venules via Specialized Conduits While a Functional Barrier Limits Access to the Lymphocyte Microenvironments in Lymph Node Cortex

    J. Elizabeth Gretz;Christopher C. Norbury;Arthur O. Anderson;Amanda E.I. Proudfoot

  • Regulated expression and binding of three VLA (β1) integrin receptors on T cells

    Yoji Shimizu;Gijs A. Van Seventer;Kevin J. Horgan;Stephen Shaw

  • ICAM-1 a ligand for LFA-1-dependent adhesion of B, T and myeloid cells

    M W Makgoba;M E Sanders;G E Ginther Luce;M L Dustin

  • Two antigen-independent adhesion pathways used by human cytotoxic T-cell clones

    Stephen Shaw;Gale E. Ginther Luce;Ralph Quinones;Ronald E. Gress

  • The T lymphocyte glycoprotein CD2 binds the cell surface ligand LFA-3

    Periasamy Selvaraj;Marian L. Plunkett;Michael Dustin;Martin E. Sanders

  • Proteoglycans on endothelial cells present adhesion-inducing cytokines to leukocytes

    Yoshiya Tanaka;David H. Adams;Stephen Shaw

  • Cords, channels, corridors and conduits: critical architectural elements facilitating cell interactions in the lymph node cortex

    J E Gretz;A O Anderson;S Shaw

  • Evidence for a new segregant series of B cell antigens that are encoded in the HLA-D region and that stimulate secondary allogenic proliferative and cytotoxic responses.

    S Shaw;A H Johnson;G M Shearer

  • Activation-independent binding of human memory T cells to adhesion molecule ELAM-1

    Yoji Shimizu;Stephen Shaw;Norma Graber;T. Venkat Gopal

  • Costimulation of proliferative responses of resting CD4+ T cells by the interaction of VLA-4 and VLA-5 with fibronectin or VLA-6 with laminin.

    Y Shimizu;G A van Seventer;K J Horgan;S Shaw

  • CD31 expressed on distinctive T cell subsets is a preferential amplifier of beta 1 integrin-mediated adhesion.

    Y Tanaka;S M Albelda;K J Horgan;G A van Seventer

  • Four molecular pathways of T cell adhesion to endothelial cells: Roles of LFA-1, VCAM-1, and ELAM-1 and changes in pathway hierarchy under different activation conditions

    Y Shimizu;W Newman;T V Gopal;K J Horgan

  • Roles of adhesion molecules in T-cell recognition: fundamental similarities between four integrins on resting human T cells (LFA-1, VLA-4, VLA-5, VLA-6) in expression, binding, and costimulation.

    Yoji Shimizu;Gijs A. Van Seventer;Kevin J. Horgan;Stephen Shaw

  • Specific targeting of cytotoxic T cells by anti-T3 linked to anti-target cell antibody

    Pilar Perez;Robert W. Hoffman;Stephen Shaw;Jeffrey A. Bluestone

  • PURIFIED LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 3 BINDS TO CD2 AND MEDIATES T LYMPHOCYTE ADHESION

    M L Dustin;M E Sanders;S Shaw;T A Springer

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoji Shimizu
Yoji Shimizu University of Minnesota
Timothy A. Springer
Timothy A. Springer Boston Children's Hospital
Yoshiya Tanaka
Yoshiya Tanaka University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan
Michael L. Dustin
Michael L. Dustin University of Oxford
Stuart F. Schlossman
Stuart F. Schlossman Harvard University
Michael J. Kruhlak
Michael J. Kruhlak National Institutes of Health
Rebecca H. Buckley
Rebecca H. Buckley Duke University
Roy L. Silverstein
Roy L. Silverstein Medical College of Wisconsin
John M. Harlan
John M. Harlan University of Washington
Takashi Kei Kishimoto
Takashi Kei Kishimoto Selecta Biosciences (United States)

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